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Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:56 AM Feb 2017

Trump asks guests @ MarA-Lago if he should fire Preibus; Jared embraces Bannon & Miller,

white supremacists.


...Trump was going around tables during dinner asking guests what he should do about Priebus and Spicer—a 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 colleague’s character in an interview with Forbes. “What I’ve 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 he’s done, as opposed to what other people are saying about him.” Bannon had a similar take. “If you’re in a foxhole with him, and fighting with him, you’re 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 Bannon’s 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 Trump’s 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 result—someone 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 Bannon’s 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.

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Trump asks guests @ MarA-Lago if he should fire Preibus; Jared embraces Bannon & Miller, (Original Post) Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 OP
WHOA! bettyellen Feb 2017 #1
Right? The idea pushed in the candidacy was his kids would "moderate" him Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #4
Polling his guests about who to hire and fire? This has become Caligula in new ways... this part: bettyellen Feb 2017 #5
Hi. My name is Donnie and I'm with the management here. Do you feel like your 200K membership Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #6
I bet he's getting a huge suitcase of cash from every father of our he bride he can hit up .... bettyellen Feb 2017 #8
If they can find a spy who looks like the 1st daugher-wife, he's sunk for sure. Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #17
Great read!! Kick! bettyellen Feb 2017 #2
Alarming read but yes, worthwhile. nt Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #7
fuck all of these people. Jared and IVanka are as bad as Trump JI7 Feb 2017 #3
I have always thought Ivanka to be the rotten fruit of a putrid tree. Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #10
Douglas Adams, 1980, on a president whose job was to be a distraction muriel_volestrangler Feb 2017 #9
Jared didn't stand a chance against Bannon underpants Feb 2017 #11
Jared and Ivanka are the ones who went to the Mercers, who sent Bannon and Kellyanne Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #19
Interesting underpants Feb 2017 #21
It's always a good idea to know who the puppeteers are, Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #22
Jared Kushner hosted fundraisers for Cory Booker?? lostnfound Feb 2017 #12
I couldn't tell Dorian Gray Feb 2017 #16
... Solly Mack Feb 2017 #13
THANKS, GOP.. Aren't you proud of yourselves?. . . n/t annabanana Feb 2017 #14
This is the most competent and compelling person they could find, and Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #24
So Bannon hides his anti-semitism when he's around you, Jared? SticksnStones Feb 2017 #15
Worse: Jared actually helped bring Bannon on board in the first place Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #20
Quisling rusty fender Feb 2017 #18
Kushner is deeply in debt as his father-in-law is. He is DESPERATE to keep the balls in the air KittyWampus Feb 2017 #23
Rinse penis ties more to the traditional gop than Trump dembotoz Feb 2017 #25
This is all happening at positively Maru Kitteh Feb 2017 #27
RP has no self-respect. If he did, he would have resigned the moment NCjack Feb 2017 #28
Maybe Trump could do away with his advisers and govern by Mar-a-Lago membership consensus HopeAgain Feb 2017 #26

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
4. Right? The idea pushed in the candidacy was his kids would "moderate" him
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:00 AM
Feb 2017

A total load of BULLSHIT from the very beginning.

They are HIS in every way.

As Uday and Qusay say; "His DNA built US"

President Trump’s old office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan sits unoccupied now, unofficial storage space for the gathering trove of memorabilia that his two oldest sons say they hope will eventually be turned over to their father’s presidential library.

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 Eric’s 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. We’re 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)
5. Polling his guests about who to hire and fire? This has become Caligula in new ways... this part:
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:11 AM
Feb 2017

"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)
6. Hi. My name is Donnie and I'm with the management here. Do you feel like your 200K membership
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:28 AM
Feb 2017

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)
8. I bet he's getting a huge suitcase of cash from every father of our he bride he can hit up ....
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:12 AM
Feb 2017

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)
17. If they can find a spy who looks like the 1st daugher-wife, he's sunk for sure.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 01:44 PM
Feb 2017

Some long blond hair and big boobies? He'll gargle some tic-tacs and follow that wherever it goes and do whatever it asks.





Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
10. I have always thought Ivanka to be the rotten fruit of a putrid tree.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:29 AM
Feb 2017

It doesn't surprise me in the least that her "mate" is their equal.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
9. Douglas Adams, 1980, on a president whose job was to be a distraction
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:17 AM
Feb 2017
Hate is, of course, an almost entirely terrible thing. There is not, say many people, enough love or understanding in the universe. Though the first of these may continue to be a problem, it is in the interests of increasing the general level of understanding that the following facts will now be revealed: Zaphod Beeblebrox’s full title was President of the Imperial Galactic Government. The term Imperial is kept, though it is now an anachronism. The hereditary emperor is now nearly dead - and has been for many centuries. This is because in his last dying moments he was - much to his imperial irritation - locked in a perpetual stasis field. All his heirs are now, of course, long dead and the upshot of all this is that without any drastic upheaval political power has simply and effectively moved a rung or two down the ladder, and is now seemed to be vested in an elected governmental assembly, headed by a president elected by that assembly.

In fact, it vests in no such place - that would be too easy. The president’s job - and if someone sufficiently vain and stupid is picked he won’t 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.
...
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 they’re 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)
11. Jared didn't stand a chance against Bannon
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:50 AM
Feb 2017

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)
19. Jared and Ivanka are the ones who went to the Mercers, who sent Bannon and Kellyanne
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:07 PM
Feb 2017

as part of the deal struck to bail out Trump.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-17/trump-s-new-team-brings-deep-ties-to-major-donor

"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 . . . .

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
22. It's always a good idea to know who the puppeteers are,
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:50 PM
Feb 2017

You're welcome underpants.

BTW. I still miss the tighty-whitey underwear gif.

Dorian Gray

(13,469 posts)
16. I couldn't tell
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:58 AM
Feb 2017

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)
13. ...
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:38 AM
Feb 2017
“If you’re in a foxhole with him, and fighting with him, you’re a brother, and he will defend you nonstop,” Bannon told New York Magazine.


Translation: As long as Kushner does what I say and backs me, he's safe from me.

Kushner, you fucking idiot.

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
24. This is the most competent and compelling person they could find, and
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:30 PM
Feb 2017

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.




Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
20. Worse: Jared actually helped bring Bannon on board in the first place
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:18 PM
Feb 2017
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-17/trump-s-new-team-brings-deep-ties-to-major-donor

"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."


more at link
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
23. Kushner is deeply in debt as his father-in-law is. He is DESPERATE to keep the balls in the air
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:58 PM
Feb 2017

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)
25. Rinse penis ties more to the traditional gop than Trump
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:38 PM
Feb 2017

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)
27. This is all happening at positively
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:56 PM
Feb 2017
blinding speed.

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)
28. RP has no self-respect. If he did, he would have resigned the moment
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 04:45 PM
Feb 2017

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)
26. Maybe Trump could do away with his advisers and govern by Mar-a-Lago membership consensus
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 03:52 PM
Feb 2017

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?

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