White House Adviser Jared Kushner Discussed Possible Concession with Trump: Report

[groundloop]

Source: Newsweek

Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his most trusted advisers, has reportedly approached Donald Trump to discuss his conceding to President-elect Joe Biden, according to CNN, which cited two anonymous sources.

The Democrat has been deemed the victor with calls having seen him cross the threshold for an Electoral College vote majority, though Trump intends to pursue legal challenges over the counting of ballots as he persists he has been truly victorious.

Late Saturday evening, CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins told her 722,000 Twitter followers: "Some news — Jared Kushner has approached President Trump about conceding the election" based on two anonymous sources. CNN.com included the report in its Live Updates blog 10 hours later, on Sunday morning.

Collins has previously reported that discussions were being had in the White House over who should "bring the president to terms with reality," suggesting Kushner as well as Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and also an adviser, were being considered as the person to do so.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-donald-trump-concede-election-1545824

[groundloop]

1. The little dweeb might be good for something after all

If nothing else this could potentially ease the chance of election related violence by trumpsters.

[Autumn]

2. Oh fuck him and fuck Jarvanka. Let him sit in his bathroom hiding and tweeting till Biden is sworn

in and the Feds can drag his ass out and dump him in the street. That will show the world what he really is.

[BlueNProud]

7. Thank you. We don't need validation from these incompetent clowns.

[H2O Man]

21. Well said!

[Autumn]

28. Can you imagine how eye opening that would be? A former president refusing to concede and

leave the White House after being voted out of office by a historic number of votes? I say let him sit in there and rot in his insanity.

[H2O Man]

33. Exactly!

I'm hoping that he continues to deny reality, and attempts to remain in the White House. I want him to experience the full humiliation of his historic defeat.

[Autumn]

35. So do I! And I don't feel the least bit petty for thinking that's way. I want him beaten, broken and

hiding in his penthouse never to be seen again.

[H2O Man]

36. It isn't petty .....

We need him to be utterly disgraced. Losing the election in the manner that he did brings him half way there. His refusal to accept defeat will complete this journey.

[smb]

50. Maybe The Scene Of Wussolini Being Frog-Marched Out Could Be Put On Pay-Per-View nt

[thecrow]

55. Right on the BLM pavement

might be fitting.

[Siwsan]

3. How terrifying that someone has to "bring the president to terms with reality"

And is it even possible? He hasn't really been grounded in reality, from day one.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Pretty pathetic that the Orange Marvel has to have his kids tell him to grow up and concede.

No wonder he isn't showing his face. It would be pretty embarrassing for people to see him sucking his thumb.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. No way. Trump will never come to terms with reality. He will escape in some way.

Also, glad to see the media weaving the term Democrat into written and verbal communication on TV. It will no longer be the epithet it had become, a trend which to my memory began with GHWB.

[groundloop]

8. Yep.... we really need to have a derogatory term to hang on the right.

For so long they've gotten away with using 'liberal' as an insult instead of acknowledging it as a set of values. That alone has been a hugely successful attack strategy for GOPers, we really need something counter it with.

[Wicked Blue]

25. Vipers

traitors
turncoats
Quislings

[Clearly fogged in]

29. easy-peasy

aliberal - use it like amoral or asymmetric

The aliberal king's court of McConnell, Graham, and ...

[2naSalit]

40. I thought GOP meant...

Groping
Old
Perverts.

[TheRickles]

10. It's not the same, though.

Calling a particular person a Democrat has always been legit, but the R's have tried to make "the Democrat Party" into an epithet. And more recently than GHWB, IIRC. But you're right - "Trump coming to terms with reality" is an oxymoron, it ain't happenin'.

[cheezmaka]

6. Can't see Cheeto conceding...

He may have already known HE LOST... However, he'll contest "every" swing state so he can tell everyone from now on that the Election was STOLEN from him. And his followers will believe his dramatic "reality show narrative"...smh

[groundloop]

9. I'm fully expecting that when reality sets in he'll start trying to burn down America

It's probably going to get ugly between now and Jan 20th.

[cheezmaka]

11. That's what I'm concerned about too....

If nothing else hopefully someone in his administration will take the Nuclear Football and "hide it" from him...

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Sadly

I couldn't agree more with you........He has to have the final say and he would certainly try to punish the voters for having denied him his most major grift of all time, the U.S. Presidency.....I would worry about him doing all kinds of things, and not just him but the entire RepubliCON party. A Scorched Earth farewell present to us and to President Biden.......

Jared and Ivanka have probably tried negotiating a concession. Deposit 100 Billion in an off shore account and we will go peacefully.
LOL

[Ligyron]

51. I wonder if it's possible to charge him for damage done while he was President?

I have no idea myself but if he did some stuff truly injurious to the country and it could be established he did so knowingly and purposely, kinda like Hitler attempted to do maybe?

The office can't temporarily make one a God responsible to no one.

Or can it?

[Bengus81]

24. IMO he knew he was toast at least 3-4 months ago........

That's why he ginned up the mail in ballots being fake BS and got his ass hat buddy DeJoy to help out too. This defeat is no surprise to that POS.

[C Moon]

46. Valid points. nt

[cheezmaka]

54. I agree

When you know you're going to win. Then "how" someone votes shouldn't matter....

[magicarpet]

12. trDump abhors being seen and/or thought of as a loser.

If he is left to stew about this Biden win and his loss he will eventually cook up some kind of diversion to obscure his resounding loss at the ballot box.

What form this diversion will assume is unknown,... entirely dependent of the whims and mood of his sick, vindictive, and vicious mind.

Team trDump had better harness his worse instincts before he lashes out incoherently and irresponsibly and makes matters exponentially worse and possibly causing irreversible damage to the country.

Until January 2021, this is a precarious time for our country until trDumpie is officially gone and made his final exit from his perch of lame and insane duck of pResidential power. We have a quack at the levers of power who is less and less stable as days go by and his end is near.

May the Gods and Goddesses Bless America for the days that this country's throat remains in this tyrant's death grip.

[Wicked Blue]

27. +100

I wonder if there is some way for us to divert and distract HIM without riling him up further.

[birdographer]

13. You can't explain to him

that this was an election and the other guy got more votes and therefore he won.

Maybe he would understand better if told "it is what it is."

[groundloop]

14. Well, actually, the other 'guy' got more votes than him in 2016 as well

But yeah, IT IS WHAT IT IS sounds plenty good.

[birdographer]

17. But this time not just the popular votes

but the EC votes Donnie was so proud of last time. He's probably waving that map around as we speak.

[groundloop]

23. Yep.... and as Karma would have it Joe has just as many Electoral Votes

It's a GREAT VICTORY, the GREATEST VICTORY, HUUUUUGE, in fact a LANDSLIDE. Joe has a MANDATE from the voters.

[Bengus81]

47. Yeah and remember....those were all illegal votes too according to IQ45

This fucker is insane and no telling what he'll do in the coming weeks.

[magicarpet]

15. .... this country ain't what you are,... trDumpie.

Just go away !

[C_U_L8R]

18. This is a translucent PR push by Jarvanka

These 'stories' don't just 'happen'. They are clearly concerned with their own public image.

[0nirevets]

19. My guess, they have no more money to fund two months worth of futile legal theatrics.

[JohnnyRingo]

20. I hope he doesn't.

At least not yet. Let these final weeks be the legacy that history remembers him for. Kicking and crying like a spoiled 6 year old before being tossed out on his ear. That is the real Donald Trump, not someone who exhibits grace.

[paleotn]

22. I don't care, do you?

His concession in meaningless and just face saving. I hope he goes down screaming and rolling around in his own "mess".

[PatrickforO]

26. One of the many, many things seriously WRONG with Donald Trump.

When he loses an election, he has to be gently 'brought to terms with reality,' and everyone around him is afraid to begin that 'process.'

[electric_blue68]

30. Concessions? We'd don't need any stinkin' concessions!

[zentrum]

31. Two sucky losers.

[Mike Nelson]

32. I think...

... Biden should release a statement about conceding: "Don't bother. We don't need a concession."

[Marthe48]

34. call Keith Richards

Supposedly, he pulled a knife on trump toi get him to stop a news conference:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/keith-richards-knife-donald-trump/


At the time I read this, a couple years ago, I thought I read that trump had to be escorted off a television set, but can't find it.


Anyway, he can go nice. Or, he can go rough. (Thank you Tina Turner!)

[PSPS]

37. Bloody charming, isn't it? A story about who draws the short straw and fear of "setting him off."

Yup, that's admirable "presidenting" right there! What a disgrace.

[Botany]

38. Trump will be gone one way or the other

The 2 things he does by not conceding is:

1) Gets his Trumper fans upset and to buy his it was rigged shit.

b) Makes him look bad to America and the rest of the world.

[rocktivity]

39. POSSIBLE concession? Conceding is a tradition: a formality, a protocol, a professional courtesy

Not conceding won't end the race. Is he going to have to be removed by force?


rocktivity

[Texin]

42. Exactly. Why would anyone think a guy who cheats at fucking golf would concede?

[Texin]

41. At some point, the kids have got to be the ones to take away the keys.

I think we may have arrived at that point with the tRump crime family.

[newdayneeded]

43. Just a feeling

I really believe he'll concede today or tomorrow latest. I think his advisers will use the 2024 angle, tell him it'll help his reelection chances if he accepts with no controversy. But then, he is a dumbshit who doesn't listen to anybody. We'll see if my hunch is right.

[rockfordfile]

44. I could careless

[elleng]

45. who should "bring the president to terms with reality,"

[usaf-vet]

48. The loser telling the big loser what he should do. CONCEDE it's over.

[amcgrath]

49. When White House staff

Have to have secret, whispered discussions about who is going to to break it to the president that he has to concede after losing an election, I think we are well into the territory of invoking the 25th. This is a farce

[onetexan]

52. I heard just the exact opposite on MSNBC - that the doofus son in law advised him to pursuit legal

options

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

53. Trump reacted to this by playing golf two days in a row.

And the weather in VA should be conducive to more golf tomorrow, maybe Tue and Wed as well. Between his courses in VA and FL, he should be able to golf every day until Jan 20.

After that, he can continue playing golf, but he won't have AF1 to fly in.

Concede a loss? That would be like admitting his ball went into the pond. No. Never.