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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaPo: I worked for Jared Kushner. Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/08/jared-kushner-coronavirus-failure/President Trumps son-in-law always casts himself as the genius cleaning up someone elses problems.
By Elizabeth Spiers
Elizabeth Spiers is the chief executive of the Insurrection, a progressive digital messaging firm.
May 8, 2020 at 9:48 a.m. EDT
Jared Kushners coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because its largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers. Of course it is. Its being run by one.
Kushners lack of experience and expertise has not been remedied in any way during his now three-plus years in the White House. After bungling many high-profile efforts to address various problems and often making them worse (see, Middle East, peace in), he keeps being handed more responsibilities with higher stakes. He has wasted taxpayer resources and endangered lives trying on policy roles usually reserved for the countrys top experts with the sophistication of a child playing dress-up, cavalierly discarding them when he cant fit into them.
Elizabeth Spiers is the chief executive of the Insurrection, a progressive digital messaging firm.
May 8, 2020 at 9:48 a.m. EDT
Jared Kushners coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because its largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers. Of course it is. Its being run by one.
Kushners lack of experience and expertise has not been remedied in any way during his now three-plus years in the White House. After bungling many high-profile efforts to address various problems and often making them worse (see, Middle East, peace in), he keeps being handed more responsibilities with higher stakes. He has wasted taxpayer resources and endangered lives trying on policy roles usually reserved for the countrys top experts with the sophistication of a child playing dress-up, cavalierly discarding them when he cant fit into them.
This is basically Kushners modus operandi, and its painfully familiar to me because he was my boss when I was the editor in chief of the New York Observer, which he had bought when he was 25. (Ive written before about what he was like as a businessman.) One of the more memorable instances of this I witnessed was at a memorial service for a beloved longtime Observer staffer, Tyler Rush, whod joined the paper well before Kushner bought it. When it came time for Kushner to say a few words, he launched into a supercilious monologue crediting himself with finally getting the paper published on time after what he described as chaos when he arrived. He also told an anecdote about Rush approaching him when he bought the paper to note that his staff was underpaid, which was true at the time, and true when I took the editor job years later. Kushner congratulated himself during the memorial for giving Rush and his production team the only raise that year because unlike everyone else, Rush hadnt been lying to Kushner.
I'm glad to see the WaPo start to be a good investigative reporting organization. For too long it was part of the DC power group.
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WaPo: I worked for Jared Kushner. Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success. (Original Post)
erronis
May 2020
OP
Of Course he does. He's a narcissistic asshole just like his Father in law
tulipsandroses
May 2020
#4
Rush Limbaugh's Daddy bought a radio station when his boy wanted to go into broadcasting.
Midnight Writer
May 2020
#9
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. K&R!
cilla4progress
(24,717 posts)2. Jared's
gotta go.
Phoenix61
(16,993 posts)3. No surprise. They say little girls grow up
to marry men just like their dads. Seems Ivanka proves the truth of that.
tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)4. Of Course he does. He's a narcissistic asshole just like his Father in law
that's why Trump likes him. They are similar.
Shaking my damn head at him congratulating himself at someone's memorial service.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)7. I am convinced that is why the wingers like him as well.
The right is rife with arrogance and narcissism.
Demovictory9
(32,421 posts)5. k&r
Demovictory9
(32,421 posts)6. your dad buys you a big newspaper? Of course you turn out to be a punk
Midnight Writer
(21,712 posts)9. Rush Limbaugh's Daddy bought a radio station when his boy wanted to go into broadcasting.
Ford_Prefect
(7,870 posts)8. Jared is one of the Great Abuser's enablers. That makes perfect sense.
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)10. So much like 🍊, it's scary!
No wonder incest Barbie...
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)11. Wait til The Maggot hesrd about this.
oasis
(49,326 posts)12. The Crown Prince of Ineptitude.