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4. The story on his father is diabolical. Jared totally screwed up our COVID response
Tue Dec 30, 2025, 05:38 PM
10 hrs ago

As I understand it, Kushner’s Dad had the DVD delivered during a birthday party. Not sue if it was a party for a kid or his sister or something. The DVD may have been played upon arrival.

These are two really good articles on how badly Jared f’ed up during COVID. He had no reason for being involved at all as is the case now.


How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
This spring, a team working under the president’s son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air

“That’s Their Problem”: How Jared Kushner Let the Markets Decide America’s COVID-19 Fate

First-person accounts of a tense meeting at the White House in late March suggest that President Trump’s son-in-law resisted taking federal action to alleviate shortages and help Democratic-led New York. Instead, he enlisted a former roommate to lead a Consultant State to take on the Deep State, with results ranging from the Eastman Kodak fiasco to a mysterious deal to send ventilators to Russia.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/jared-kushner-let-the-markets-decide-covid-19-fate


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