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Sat May 9, 2020, 08:07 PM May 2020

Former Observer editor says Kushner's claim of C19 'success' stems from inability to empathize

with other people's grief

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Elizabeth Spiers, a former editor at the New York Observer, described Jared Kushner, now a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, as someone unable to emphasize or understand other people's grief.

"When I knew him, he seemed constitutionally incapable of considering the humanity of other people as a starting point," Spiers wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post, where she described Jared Kushner's comments at a memorial for an employee at the Observer who had died.

Spiers, who worked for Kushner after he bought the Observer, told a story of Kushner launching into a "supercilious monologue crediting himself with finally getting the paper published on time after what he described as chaos when he arrived," after he was asked to say a few words at Tyler Rush's memorial.

She uses the incident to say that Kushner has always tried to credit himself as successful at any expense. Her op-ed comes in light of reports that the coronavirus response team was staffed with inexperienced volunteers who were struggling to get medical supplies for the US.

https://news.yahoo.com/former-editor-observer-says-kushners-050018468.html

Sounds like his father-in-law
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