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What is a problem for the campaign, though, is the escalating cold war between Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr. for control of the reelection, five sources close to the White House told me in recent days. Brad Parscale is the nominal campaign managerbut Jared and Don Jr., who both have good relationships with Parscale, are jockeying to be the ultimate decision makers. Jared wants to take control of the campaign, a person close to Don Jr. told me. Its about power, the former West Wing official said. One place the fight is playing out is over fund-raising. According to sources, Kushner has been seeking to marginalize Don Jr.s close friend Tommy Hicks Jr., who serves as co-chairman of the RNC. According to a source, Jared has told RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel not to be in touch with Hicks.
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The tensions between Don Jr. and Kushner amplified beneath the glare of the Mueller investigation. Don Jr. and Jared really dislike each other, a Republican close to the White House told me. According to the source, Don Jr. has told people he suspected Kushner was behind the initial leak of Don Jr.s infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Don was telling people Jared leaked it to hurt him. No one could figure out how it leaked. It was a closely guarded secret. The source said Kushner has also told foreign dignitaries to steer clear of Don Jr. Jared has told foreign people not to work through Don Jr. And Jared has said its on orders from the president, the source said.
Paranoia about Kushner has set in among Don Jr.s allies. According to one person close to Don Jr., his advisers were alarmed by Don Jr.s now-deleted tweet questioning Senator Kamala Harriss race. They worried Kushner would push the scandal to damage Don Jr. We need to clean this up, one adviser emailed another shortly after Don Jr. sent the tweet, according to the person, who was briefed on the exchange. Don doesnt want to give Jared any excuses to delegitimize him, the person told me.
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marble falls
(57,350 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Two little rich twerps who got everything handed to them in life and never grew the fuck up.
Ilsa
(61,705 posts)Saviolo
(3,283 posts)Then the roof of the cage. Then the floor.
... then bury the cage.
shanny
(6,709 posts)He's so good at stuff (see Mid-East Peace Plan etc). And if it tweeks Jr.'s psyche, all the better.
LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)tanyev
(42,635 posts)ooky
(8,930 posts)they can't even stand each other.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the name of this country to Trumpland, or even Kushnerland?? The entire family is useless, mainly the orange asshole in the WH. They have made the gop look like gigantic idiots.
NBachers
(17,149 posts)rurallib
(62,465 posts)I have a feeling it will be a short match.
NBachers
(17,149 posts)we all win.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)NBachers
(17,149 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)FakeNoose
(32,817 posts)Ilsa
(61,705 posts)are actually his spawn. They don't look anything like each other. I know: it's too much plastic surgery, and family characteristics were cut out.
OldEurope
(1,273 posts)You would not believe that we are sisters. But just like Trump's children, each of us has strong similarities to our parents and their families. (I wish I had inherited my mother's beautiful hair instead of grandmother's thin streaks
)
I find both sons have parts of his face, all three have his ugly lips (and the other two children, too), and actually Ivanka is very lucky to have inherited some looks from her mother. Maybe there is some surgery, too, but she actually is the only one who is not downright ugly, IMHO, from the outside.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Ivanka was homely as hell. I still fail to see where her daddy thinks she is "one of the world's great beauties" but hey - whatever floats his boat.
GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)Just look at photos of her when she was younger. She has had at least a couple of nose jobs, and the same sort of kidney surgery her step mother had. Speaking of which, I don't know if that's just the angle, or if Melania's right kidney looks larger than the left one. It could just be shadows or bad photoshopping. Everything about Ivanka is fake...the face, the boobs, the veneers, the blonde hair...
Hekate
(90,858 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Its a tragi-comedy worthy of Shakespeare.
Tanuki
(14,924 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)Or, some snooty place. Not saying I don't believe it. Just saying it's hard to know what to believe when it comes to this bunch of assholes. I am so fucking sick of these assholes and their bullshit, I can't stand it.
Is Tommy Hicks related to Hope?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can't imagine that are still accepted into New York Society anywhere. I guess someone must have a soft-spot.
llmart
(15,557 posts)My vote is for Kushner. I could probably take him with one hand tied behind my back. I would probably raise my fist and he'd start covering his face and cry.
I'd rather the Munsters were the first family.
irisblue
(33,036 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I agree with Jared...I don't like Don Jr.
I agree with Don Jr...I don't like Jared.
They're both right! I guess this is one of those broken clock is right twice a day things.
brewens
(13,630 posts)Bannon would know. No telling what Ivanka was exposed to growing up. She could be pretty freaky.
keithbvadu2
(36,958 posts)Advantage - Jared.
Jared has a wife for Sr to fondle.
Donnie Jr does not.
nuxvomica
(12,451 posts)With these two entitled, ignorant doofuses squaring off that leaves the professional consultants to run the campaign. I think we're better off with one of them taking full control, ensuring an unbridled fiasco. I hope it's Junior.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)combined they might make a half-wit.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is the lamest showdown since Boris Grushenko and Anton lvanovich Lebedokov. ("Love and Death", Woody Allen).
You had to be there.