"Don Jr. and Jared Really Dislike Each Other": In the Trump Campaign, It's Son Versus Son-in-Law

[demmiblue]

Suspicion has turned to paranoia as Kushner pushes for 2020 hegemony. “Don doesn’t want to give Jared any excuses to delegitimize him,” says a person close to Don Jr.

What is a problem for the campaign, though, is the escalating cold war between Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. for control of the reelection, five sources close to the White House told me in recent days. Brad Parscale is the nominal campaign manager—but Jared and Don Jr., who both have good relationships with Parscale, are jockeying to be the ultimate decision makers. “Jared wants to take control of the campaign,” a person close to Don Jr. told me. “It’s about power,” the former West Wing official said. One place the fight is playing out is over fund-raising. According to sources, Kushner has been seeking to marginalize Don Jr.’s close friend Tommy Hicks Jr., who serves as co-chairman of the RNC. According to a source, Jared has told RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel not to be in touch with Hicks.

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The tensions between Don Jr. and Kushner amplified beneath the glare of the Mueller investigation. “Don Jr. and Jared really dislike each other,” a Republican close to the White House told me. According to the source, Don Jr. has told people he suspected Kushner was behind the initial leak of Don Jr.’s infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. “Don was telling people Jared leaked it to hurt him. No one could figure out how it leaked. It was a closely guarded secret.” The source said Kushner has also told foreign dignitaries to steer clear of Don Jr. “Jared has told foreign people not to work through Don Jr. And Jared has said it’s on orders from the president,” the source said.

Paranoia about Kushner has set in among Don Jr.’s allies. According to one person close to Don Jr., his advisers were alarmed by Don Jr.’s now-deleted tweet questioning Senator Kamala Harris’s race. They worried Kushner would push the scandal to damage Don Jr. “We need to clean this up,” one adviser emailed another shortly after Don Jr. sent the tweet, according to the person, who was briefed on the exchange. “Don doesn’t want to give Jared any excuses to delegitimize him,” the person told me.

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[marble falls]

1. Cage fight. Two men enter - bury the cage.

[BlueStater]

2. "Men"? More like boys.

Two little rich twerps who got everything handed to them in life and never grew the fuck up.

[Ilsa]

9. Change "men" to "heartless selfish brats." nt

[Saviolo]

16. Electrify the cage.

Then the roof of the cage. Then the floor.

... then bury the cage.

[shanny]

3. I think Jared should run the campaign.

He's so good at stuff (see Mid-East Peace Plan etc). And if it tweeks Jr.'s psyche, all the better.

[LuvNewcastle]

12. I agree.

[tanyev]

4. Niiice.

[ooky]

5. Just like everybody else dislikes them

they can't even stand each other.

[Scarsdale]

24. When will they change

the name of this country to Trumpland, or even Kushnerland?? The entire family is useless, mainly the orange asshole in the WH. They have made the gop look like gigantic idiots.

[NBachers]

6. I say a duel at 20 paces. See which one cheats & turns around first, to shoot the other in its back.

[rurallib]

18. Can I have less than one pace in the pool?

I have a feeling it will be a short match.

[NBachers]

19. Jr. will turn first; Jarhead will have an MSB sniper hidden on one of the rooftops. They both lose;

we all win.

[rurallib]

20. Then maybe their women can finish it for them?

[NBachers]

25. Then all the synthetic body parts can be harvested from the also-ran, and put to better use.

[tblue37]

7. Not surprised. They're both unlikable. nt

[FakeNoose]

8. America's First Family - aren't they just so cute & lovable?

[Ilsa]

10. I can't help but wonder if any of those grown kids

are actually his spawn. They don't look anything like each other. I know: it's too much plastic surgery, and family characteristics were cut out.

[OldEurope]

15. My two sisters and I are also not looking like each other.

You would not believe that we are sisters. But just like Trump's children, each of us has strong similarities to our parents and their families. (I wish I had inherited my mother's beautiful hair instead of grandmother's thin streaks…)
I find both sons have parts of his face, all three have his ugly lips (and the other two children, too), and actually Ivanka is very lucky to have inherited some looks from her mother. Maybe there is some surgery, too, but she actually is the only one who is not downright ugly, IMHO, from the outside.

[Scarsdale]

26. Before the extensive surgery,

Ivanka was homely as hell. I still fail to see where her daddy thinks she is "one of the world's great beauties" but hey - whatever floats his boat.

[GoCubsGo]

27. Ivanka has had multiple plastic surgeries.

Just look at photos of her when she was younger. She has had at least a couple of nose jobs, and the same sort of kidney surgery her step mother had. Speaking of which, I don't know if that's just the angle, or if Melania's right kidney looks larger than the left one. It could just be shadows or bad photoshopping. Everything about Ivanka is fake...the face, the boobs, the veneers, the blonde hair...

[Hekate]

11. What a creepy family. If they actually had brains they'd be the Borgias.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Machiavellian meatheads.

It’s a tragi-comedy worthy of Shakespeare.

[Tanuki]

14. If it's what you say it is I love it, especially later in the summer!

[fleur-de-lisa]

36. You win DU today!

[TeamPooka]

17. This is because it's Ivanka vs Don Jr to take over the GOP after Dad's gone.

[GoCubsGo]

21. And, yet I read that they were spending the July 4th weekend together in the Hamptons.

Or, some snooty place. Not saying I don't believe it. Just saying it's hard to know what to believe when it comes to this bunch of assholes. I am so fucking sick of these assholes and their bullshit, I can't stand it.

Is Tommy Hicks related to Hope?

[smirkymonkey]

34. Who in the Hamptons still welcomes these losers?

I can't imagine that are still accepted into New York Society anywhere. I guess someone must have a soft-spot.

[llmart]

22. It's a toss up who has the more punchable face, that's for sure.

My vote is for Kushner. I could probably take him with one hand tied behind my back. I would probably raise my fist and he'd start covering his face and cry.

I'd rather the Munsters were the first family.

[irisblue]

23. And

[Miles Archer]

28. I agree with both of them!

I agree with Jared...I don't like Don Jr.

I agree with Don Jr...I don't like Jared.

They're both right! I guess this is one of those broken clock is right twice a day things.

[brewens]

29. I saw where Bannon called Jared a "Cuck". So what does Ivanka do to earn Jared that?

Bannon would know. No telling what Ivanka was exposed to growing up. She could be pretty freaky.

[keithbvadu2]

30. Advantage - Jared.

Advantage - Jared.

Jared has a wife for Sr to fondle.

Donnie Jr does not.

[nuxvomica]

31. I hope one of them wins, and soon

With these two entitled, ignorant doofuses squaring off that leaves the professional consultants to run the campaign. I think we're better off with one of them taking full control, ensuring an unbridled fiasco. I hope it's Junior.

[NCjack]

32. There are good jerks on both sides. nt

[DeminPennswoods]

33. 2 Stupid Dogs

combined they might make a half-wit.

[smirkymonkey]

35. They are both losers.

This is the lamest showdown since Boris Grushenko and Anton lvanovich Lebedokov. ("Love and Death", Woody Allen).

You had to be there.