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white supremacists.
...Trump was going around tables during dinner asking guests what he should do about Priebus and Spicera crowdsourcing game he reportedly played when he was deciding which candidate to choose for vice president, and again, when picking who he would nominate as secretary of state. (A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to request for comment.)
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Both Bannon and Kushner have tried to articulate their improbable mutual affection. In explaining the unlikely relationship between himself (an orthodox Jew whose grandparents survived the Holocaust), and Bannon (who ran the alt-right Web site Breitbart News, which has published anti-Semitic comments), Kushner defended his colleagues character in an interview with Forbes. What Ive seen from working together with him was somebody who did not fit the description that people are pushing on him. I choose to judge him based on my experience and seeing the job hes done, as opposed to what other people are saying about him. Bannon had a similar take. If youre in a foxhole with him, and fighting with him, youre a brother, and he will defend you nonstop, Bannon told New York Magazine.
Nevertheless, a perception existed during the campaign and transition that Kushner was a moderating voice to Bannons nationalistic agenda. Kushner, after all, came from a major Democratic family. He hosted fundraisers for Corey Booker. He privately reassured his friends and business leaders in his orbit that his father-in-law and Trumps team would pull back from some of the extreme rhetoric that they peddled on the trail once they got into the West Wing. As one source close to Kushner described to me last month, Kushner was thought of as the secure line as a resultsomeone whom moderates could call in order to be heard by the president and to hear what the president really planned to do behind all that political bombast.
But now, a month into his new job in the West Wing, Kushner appears to have become a true believer in Bannons agenda. Several sources told me that Kushner was defensive about the executive order that temporarily barred Muslim immigrants and refugees. The longtime friend said that when he pointed out that refugees had not, in fact, been responsible for any of the terror attacks on U.S. soil, Kushner, he said, answered by saying that that was not true.
more at link
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/jared-kushner-donald-trumps-true-believer
This house is the peoples' house. It cannot stand like this.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)A total load of BULLSHIT from the very beginning.
They are HIS in every way.
As Uday and Qusay say; "His DNA built US"
But just one flight down, in Eric and Donald Trump Jr.s cramped offices, their father is ever-present in the seven copies of a recent issue of Golf Digest with his photo and the headline Golfer-in-Chief on the cover stacked on Erics desk; in his visage looping endlessly on CNN (yes, they watch CNN); in the cardboard cutout of the president watching from behind a stash of blueprints in the corner.
This is the conundrum facing the two brothers as they assume control of the empire their father built: How do they move forward, and navigate the ethical shoals, at a business predicated entirely on the brand of the man they have vowed to distance themselves from?
His DNA will always be in the company in a big way, Eric said, during nearly five hours of interviews over two days last week at Trump Tower. His DNA built the company. His DNA also built us. Were extensions of him in so many ways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/us/politics/eric-trump-donald-trump-jr.html
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)"A SOURCE CLOSE TO THE PRESIDENT TOLD ME THAT TRUMP WAS GOING AROUND TABLES DURING DINNER ASKING GUESTS IF HE SHOULD FIRE PRIEBUS AND SPICER."
WTF America!?!?
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)fee is paying off? Please tell us which high-level govt. advisors you think are valid and which ones you would like to see voted off the island.
Press 1 for Priebus.
Press 2 for Spicey.
Press 3 for Melania. (she almost counts but not really)
Press 4 for Kanye West.
Press 5 for . . . .
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)For the next two years. I hope some outlet has already infiltrated and has their engaged daughter playing tennis there.
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)Some long blond hair and big boobies? He'll gargle some tic-tacs and follow that wherever it goes and do whatever it asks.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)JI7
(89,172 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)It doesn't surprise me in the least that her "mate" is their equal.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)In fact, it vests in no such place - that would be too easy. The presidents job - and if someone sufficiently vain and stupid is picked he wont realise this - is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the only man in history to have made presidential telecasts from the bath, from Eccentrica Gallumbits bedroom, from the maximum-security wing of the Betelgeuse State Prison, or from where ever else he happened to be at the time, was supremely good at this job.
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The major problem - one of the major problems - for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it. Or, rather, of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarise: it is a well-known and much lamented fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should, on no account, be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. And so this is the situation we find. A succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they never really notice that theyre not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them, who? Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to, can be allowed to?
Damn, I miss him. Ironically, if he were still alive, I'd be saying the UK should become a republic, with Adams as ceremonial president.
underpants
(182,271 posts)Of course he came on board. Bannon is a ruthless SOB and I mean that as a compliment in a political maneuvering way. Horrible person whose "competition" are fancy rich dandies.
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)as part of the deal struck to bail out Trump.
"Until recently, Trump was not the Mercers' favorite. During the Republican presidential primary, Mercer and his family put $13.5 million into a political action committee to support Senator Ted Cruz's bid for the party's nomination. They put Conway in charge of the spending.
A few weeks after Cruz dropped out, the Mercers lined up behind Trump. The move followed a meeting in Manhattan that included Mercer's daughter Rebekah, Conway, and Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, according to a person with knowledge of the matter."
Oh, what a tangled web . . . .
underpants
(182,271 posts)Thanks
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)You're welcome underpants.
BTW. I still miss the tighty-whitey underwear gif.
lostnfound
(16,138 posts)Damn the horse you ride on.
Dorian Gray
(13,469 posts)if Jared had or his family had.
But, yeah... that's just backing candidates to pedal influence, not because you agree with their message. Booker and Trump are almost totally opposed to one another.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Translation: As long as Kushner does what I say and backs me, he's safe from me.
Kushner, you fucking idiot.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)they still needed the help of Vladimir Putin, an illegal cabal of hackers, Wikileaks, bogus congressional "investigations," and the director of the FBI to narrowly eek out an EC win in an election they LOST by 3 million votes.
This brings me some small bit of hope.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Oh, that nice.
Your grandparents would be proud.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/jared-kushner-family-trump-holocaust-225210
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)"Until recently, Trump was not the Mercers' favorite. During the Republican presidential primary, Mercer and his family put $13.5 million into a political action committee to support Senator Ted Cruz's bid for the party's nomination. They put Conway in charge of the spending.
A few weeks after Cruz dropped out, the Mercers lined up behind Trump. The move followed a meeting in Manhattan that included Mercer's daughter Rebekah, Conway, and Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, according to a person with knowledge of the matter."
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rusty fender
(3,428 posts)We should refer to Kushner as Quisling from now on
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)and is most probably happy to collude with White Supremacists/Putin.
That is the nexus in all this. White supremacists like Jeff Sessions, Bannon, Miller and Putin.
dembotoz
(16,734 posts)Knew he would fall victim to a purge but I did not think so soon.
The coup will soon be completed
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)It's hard to imagine Trump remaining in office for a full year even at this pace. Republicans are going to look to shed his skin like a snake.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)that he heard that #45 had disparaged him by asking supper company if RP should be fired. Surprise for #45: we are working to fire you, and if possible, put you in Leavenworth Prison.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)After all, those people have paid $200,000/year to be there with our Commander in Chief. Wouldn't that be sweet for all the rust-belt and coal miner rednecks who voted for Trump?