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Washington Post: President Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser who has zero expertise in infectious diseases and little experience marshaling the full bureaucracy behind a cause saw the administration floundering and inserted himself at the helm, believing he could break the logjam of internal dysfunction.
Kushner rushed to help write Trumps widely panned Oval Office address to the nation. His supermodel sister-in-laws father, Kurt Kloss, an emergency room doctor, crowdsourced suggestions from his Facebook network to pass along to Kushner. And Kushner pressed tech executives to help build a testing website and retail executives to help create mobile testing sites but the projects were only half-baked when Trump revealed them Friday in the White House Rose Garden.
Kushner entered into a crisis management process that, despite the triumphant and self-congratulatory tone of public briefings, was as haphazard and helter-skelter as the chaotic early days of Trumps presidency turning into something of a family-and-friends pandemic response operation.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/15/when-jared-kushner-stepped-in/
malaise
(269,157 posts)he should know about infectious diseases like leptospirosis
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Ultimately, I am glad Jared stepped in. We got a national emergency declaration out of it, if nothing else.
-Laelth
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)blm
(113,091 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,456 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)"What does a person do when they are coming from behind when solving a serious problem? It's very clear to me he will use his own private friends and resources, compounding his perception of profiteering from the presidency."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213070819
volstork
(5,403 posts)"His ambition exceeded his abilities by orders of magnitude so vast it would take a team of advanced mathematicians generations to devise a system by which to measure the differential."