Michelle Goldberg: Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed

Trump’s son-in-law has no business running the coronavirus response.

By Michelle Goldberg
Opinion Columnist

April 2, 2020

Reporting on the White House’s herky-jerky coronavirus response, Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman has a quotation from Jared Kushner that should make all Americans, and particularly all New Yorkers, dizzy with terror.

According to Sherman, when New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, said that the state would need 30,000 ventilators at the apex of the coronavirus outbreak, Kushner decided that Cuomo was being alarmist. “I have all this data about I.C.U. capacity,” Kushner reportedly said. “I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators.” (Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top expert on infectious diseases, has said he trusts Cuomo’s estimate.)

Even now, it’s hard to believe that someone with as little expertise as Kushner could be so arrogant, but he said something similar on Thursday, when he made his debut at the White House’s daily coronavirus briefing: “People who have requests for different products and supplies, a lot of them are doing it based on projections which are not the realistic projections.”

Kushner has succeeded at exactly three things in his life. He was born to the right parents, married well and learned how to influence his father-in-law. Most of his other endeavors — his biggest real estate deal, his foray into newspaper ownership, his attempt to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians — have been failures.

Undeterred, he has now arrogated to himself a major role in fighting the epochal health crisis that’s brought America to its knees. “Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response,” said a Politico headline on Wednesday. This is dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/jared-kushner-coronavirus.html

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Related: Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response (Politico)

[SheltieLover]

1. Grifter!

https://www.propublica.org/article/taxpayers-paid-millions-to-design-a-low-cost-ventilator-for-a-pandemic-instead-the-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-

[Scarsdale]

2. Smarmy little bastard.

He is interchangeable with the other prick in the WH (not the big orange one) Stephen Miller. Both have outsized egos. It has to be included in the rules for the presidency that NO family members are to be put into positions that they are unqualified to fill. tRump never could have made it on qualifications. Putin HAD to step in to get his dream of destroying the USA. How much longer before Beavis or Butthead is put in charge of the Treasury? The tRump "boys" have nothing to do since the properties are all closed.

[duforsure]

3. trump and his wrecking crew

Have zero value on yours and anyone else's life, and people can see this every day they drag their feet stalling payouts and help from getting to the people while acting like this is acceptable. The lying and claims of greatness handling this only makes them look more corrupt and criminal . Maybe the gop will get the message very soon, the American people will not re-elect trump , and the gop have to dump his ass as their candidate.

[dlk]

4. Kushner is a psychopath and a human pathogen

He’ a different species altogether and, of course, he’s dangerous.

[klook]

5. "dilettantism raised to the level of sociopathy"

A fitting summation of this entire maladministration.

[gibraltar72]

6. Start simple Jared.

Learn ho to pour piss out of a boot then work up.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Tsar-Czar Jar-Jar is ignorant & stupid. He urged tRump to do mainly PR campaign, instead of prep.

Sociopathic by greed, narcissistic by ignorance, self-inflated.

Just because he is filling a vacuum at the top by being appointed Tzar-Csar of Everything doesn't mean he is competent.

But the ideologues and clueless people around him are impressed, because he is a tRump-whisperer.

[LuvLoogie]

8. Jared The Patsy

Fuckin Hell

[Hestia]

9. Isn't there a law about profiting from an Emergency? Is that why * hasn't evoked the

Defense Production Act?

I thought an Act was instituted by DuPont making billions from WWI and the BFEE profiting also. It was so bad for DuPont that they actually charged $1 profit for WWII due to people's abject hatred of the company for profiting off WWI

Oh! Just read where Jared has FUBAR'd this response in order for he and his frat bros seek out ways to privatize this disaster.

[Paladin]

10. The original "Get Us All Killed" title has been toned down to something namby-pamby.

The NYT, pulling its punches with the trump regime----AGAIN.