Jared Kushner appeared ignorant of what Nato actually does, book claims

[usaf-vet]

Source: The Guardian

Thu 6 Feb 2020 01.30 EST
Though Jared Kushner was a “lead point of contact” for US allies worried about Donald Trump’s threats to Nato, the president’s son-in-law did not “seem to know what Nato actually did”, a new book claims.

Kushner even appeared to be ignorant of article 5, the treaty clause which stipulates that an attack on one member is an attack on all.

The claim is contained in Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington, by Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng, two reporters for the Daily Beast. The Guardian obtained a copy of the book, which has been excerpted elsewhere and will be published on 11 February.

Markay and Suebsaeng write that Kushner’s ignorance of the founding principles of Nato was exposed in May 2017, as Trump was about to travel to Nato headquarters in Brussels to address allies worried by his attacks on the organization and claims that other countries were not paying their way.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/06/jared-kushner-nato-sinking-in-the-swamp

[The Blue Flower]

1. "I'm shocked!" said no one

From now until November, il drumpf and his trained seals will continue to seal their own doom. I intend to not be shocked or sickened by anything they do or say. I want them to go for the bottom as hard as they can. The American people for the most part do not have this behavior in their DNA.

[left-of-center2012]

2. From the linked article ...

"Trump has privately said he would like to withdraw the US from Nato altogether"

[LudwigPastorius]

12. "Trump has privately said he would like to withdraw the US from Nato altogether"

Of course, that's the primary reason Putin installed him.

Pulling the U.S. out of Syria, sowing general discord among our allies, withholding military aid to Ukraine, saying Russia should keep Crimea, and trying to get Russia back in the G7 are all just bonuses.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. stop the sentence after "ignorant"

[2naSalit]

13. +1

It's affluenza on steroids with this crowd.

[Pantagruel]

4. Just a matter of time

before the abject ignorance of the Trump cabal creates a serious crisis.

[Bayard]

5. Ahh, so many books, so little time...

Obama was SO boring.

[Mike 03]

6. Great article.

“Oh, article 5,” the authors say Kushner replied. “What’s that again?”

And this reminder about recent comments by Bolton:

According to NBC News, a month before that the former national security adviser John Bolton warned a private audience Trump could “go full isolationist” if he wins re-election this year.

In December, speaking to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, one European diplomat said: “The greatest fear is what he would do in a second term. He would be more free from constraints. It is impossible to predict.”

In January, the New York Times reported that Trump has privately said he would like to withdraw the US from Nato altogether, a move Congress has sought to preclude.

*Sigh*

[Javaman]

7. honestly, I don't think the living ken doll knows where his ass is located. nt

[gopiscrap]

8. figures

this whole family is nothing but a bunch of fucking grifters

[Scarsdale]

9. Can anyone name ONE person

in this administration who IS competent? One who knows what they are doing? CARES what they are doing? The tRumps treat this like a family business, where nobody is to ask difficult questions. It is a disgrace to this once great country.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Of course he is. Did anyone expect otherwise? Nepotism in all of its ugly glory, ...

appointing a clearly incompetent twit to spearhead rump's issues/negotiations.

[lark]

11. Kushner is a fucking ignorant, lying, Zionist loon - period the end.

He's never done anything on his own and with his entitled ignorance and arrogance he absolutely will never succeed at anything he does.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. I believe he has never held a job his jailbird daddy didn't procure for him.

...and now his father-in-law.

Why should the Jared-droid have bothered with educating himself about world affairs when money has literally been handed to him his whole life? He was born with a silver spoon up his ass.

[TomVilmer]

15. I know the purpose of NATO!

The North Atlantic Treaty

Article 1
The Parties undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security and justice are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations. ...

https://www.nato.int/cps/ie/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm

I wonder why NATO normally only quote Article 5.

[BlueIdaho]

16. Jared Kushner appeared ignorant...

You could have stopped right there...