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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's new Middle East coordinator is Jared's assistant Avi Berkowitz
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Trump's new Middle East coordinator is Jared's assistant Avi Berkowitz. He's 28. He graduated from law school in 2016.
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Trump's new Middle East coordinator is Jared's assistant Avi Berkowitz. He's 28. He graduated from law school in 2016.
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Trump's new Middle East coordinator is Jared's assistant Avi Berkowitz (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Sep 2019
OP
"He's already thoroughly familiar with all of Jared's brilliant policy successes!"
struggle4progress
Sep 2019
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erronis
(15,183 posts)1. Limbo: How low can they go?
I thought that these worms were at least above the surface of dump's dirt. Now we're looking for subterranean candidates. (No offense to lawyers. Well....)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Well, that should take care of that!
Peace in our time!
riversedge
(70,086 posts)3. Here is a pic of AVI. I was just ready about him...........
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Trump Somehow Replaces Unqualified Mideast Envoy With Even Less Qualified One
Jonathan Chait
3 minutes
Kusher and Berkowitz. Photo: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for TIME
One of President Trumps most absurd personnel moves was appointing his real-estate lawyer Jason Greenblatt as special envoy to the Middle East. Greenblatt had no serious foreign policy experience, a fairly serious drawback when the task involves resolving one of the most famously intractable foreign policy challenges in the world.
Greenblatt has reportedly drawn up his plan. But before its unveiled, he is leaving the White House, a sequence of timing that should probably not increase ones confidence in the plans prospects of success. Axios reports most of Greenblatts responsibilities will be transferred to Avi Berkowitz. Who is Avi Berkowitz? Hes a 29-year-old Jared Kushner friend who graduated from law school in 2016:
From there he joined the Trump campaign as assistant director of data analytics, where he was tasked with producing the campaigns pre- and post-presidential-debate talk show that became a nightly Facebook Live discussion in the weeks leading up to the election, according to a 2017 Business Insider profile. The story describes Berkowitz as Kushners 28-year-old protégé, which is one of the funnier thumbnail résumé descriptions youll ever see. He is the protégé to a young political dilettante who married into the family of a reality-television star who was elected president despite knowing almost nothing about public policy.
From there, Berkowitz settled in under Kushner:
struggle4progress
(118,234 posts)5. "He's already thoroughly familiar with all of Jared's brilliant policy successes!"
Vinca
(50,237 posts)4. Sure, why not? Meatloaf must have had previous engagements.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,646 posts)6. That is really funny. Thank you.