Kushner found Navarro by browsing Amazon

[struggle4progress]

BY NIKITA VLADIMIROV - 04/15/17 12:48 PM EDT

Jared Kushner found a White House economic advisor by browsing Amazon, Vanity Fair reported Saturday.

Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, was asked by Trump to do research on China, and turned to Amazon ...

Kushner then cold-called Navarro and invited him to be an adviser to the Trump campaign, according to the report. Navarro now directs the White House National Trade Council and serves as the Assistant to the President.

When the Trump campaign brought on Navarro, he was the only economic adviser on the team and likely reinforced Trump's convictions about China's trade policies ...

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328969-report-kushner-found-trump-economic-advisor-navarro-by-browsing

[klook]

1. Not the Borowitz Report (nt)

[rurallib]

2. thanks - that is a much needed clarification

Aye-yi-yi

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Or The Onion

[Flaleftist]

3. I guess that's better than Craigslist.

Maybe not.

[elleng]

4. Maybe not indeed,

I've found 2 lovely homes on craigslist!

[babylonsister]

6. Haha! So then this is the 'new way'? nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I don't teach Economics like Navarro but China has as much leverage over us as we do over them...

I don't teach Economics like Navarro but I know China has as much leverage over us as we do over them by holding so much of our debt and continuing to buy more.

[klook]

8. Too bad he didn't look a little farther

and tap Carl Hiaasen.

[dalton99a]

9. Well, that's how you shop for people