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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKushner wanted Trump to back Strange in AL to raise standing w/GOP 'if things go south in the Russia
I say keep the little weasle in the WH. He will go down with Trump.
Kyle Griffin?Verified account @kylegriffin1 23h23 hours ago
Kushner wanted Trump to back Strange in AL to raise standing w/GOP 'if things go south in the Russia investigation.'
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POLITICS 09/28/2017 10:02 am ET
Kushner Again: How He Helped Push Trump Into A Ditch In Alabama
And the Bannonites are loving it.
Once again, President Donald Trump finds himself in trouble after taking political advice from his son-in-law.
Over the last few months, Jared Kushner, who is also a White House senior adviser, was chief among those who lobbied the president to endorse Luther Strange, the losing candidate in Tuesdays Republican Senate primary in Alabama.
According to two sources who work closely with the young real estate tycoon, Kushner suggested the endorsement, in part, because he believed that a Strange victory would enrage Steve Bannon, the newly reinstalled executive chairman of Breitbart News and a nemesis of Kushners from their time together in the Trump White House. Bannon backed the primary winner, Roy Moore, who thinks that homosexuality should be criminalized and suggested this week that parts of the United States are operating under Sharia.
Kushner also thought that getting Trump to support Strange would improve his own tenuous standing with Republican leaders in the Senate, according to several allies of Bannon. Hes going to need them if things go south in the Russia investigation, one explained......................................................
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Kushner wanted Trump to back Strange in AL to raise standing w/GOP 'if things go south in the Russia (Original Post)
riversedge
Oct 2017
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brush
(53,978 posts)1. Kushner is as bad a screw up as trump and trump jr. What a bunch of bunglers.
JenniferJuniper
(4,517 posts)2. A random drawing
probably would have landed us far better people.
brush
(53,978 posts)3. Yep, they seem to fuck up everything they touch. And they think they're outsmarting people.