Kushner coronavirus team sparks confusion, plaudits inside White House response efforts

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David Fahrenthold Retweeted

"Several people involved in the response said the involvement of outside advisers — who are emailing large groups of government employees from private email addresses — also raises legitimate security concerns"

Link to tweet

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1. If there were an evil intent amoung this gang of grifters

I suspect it would be coming from this twerp and the villain Miller.

[VarryOn]

2. I'll be so glad when someone passes a law...

that Presidential administrations can have ZERO, ZIP, NADA neptotism...paid or unpaid or otherwise. I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone that Presdient Obama had, but it seems the other previous Admins had plenty. I dont care how supposely expertise the relative may be, go work in the private sector.

And yes, I know there have been some quite good ones that would be impacted by such a law. I'd be wiling to give that up.

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6. As we are seeing, lsws are only as good as they are enforceable.

There are no laws that trump will obey unless he can make money from them, or benefit his spawn.

[VarryOn]

7. unfortunately...

you're probably right.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

3. More bungling from the butt-trumpets.

[Skittles]

4. JAYSUS he is one spooky looking mofo

as creepy as his plastic wife

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Flashback Friday: When Congress put the brakes on nepotism

HEARD ON THE HILL

Flashback Friday: When Congress put the brakes on nepotism

As Senate majority leader, LBJ had his brother and sister-in-law on staff

By Ben Peters
Posted March 22, 2019 at 5:00am
They say, “Never mix business with family,” but lawmakers in the past had no problem with putting relatives on their staff.

A 1959 Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé in The Washington Daily News found around 90 members of Congress employing their wives, sons, daughters, bothers, sisters, nephews, nieces, uncles, fathers or in-laws as staffers and campaign managers.

“There is a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes nepotism on Capitol Hill. … The kinfolk parade is not going to be stopped,” wrote the author, Vance Trimble.

Lawmakers can still keep family on their campaign payroll, but a federal antinepotism law passed in 1967 now prohibits federal officials from hiring close relatives.

President Lyndon B. Johnson is believed to have strongly favored the legislation, given his dislike of Robert Kennedy. RFK served as attorney general under his brother, President John F. Kennedy, and the law has since become known as the “Bobby Kennedy law.”

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HISTORY • POLITICS

Behind the Law That May Keep Donald Trump's Children From White House Jobs

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Legal experts are divided on how to apply this anti-nepotism statute. Some claim U.S. Code Title 3 gives Trump some leeway in tapping people — and possibly family members — to “serve at the pleasure of the president” on the White House staff, because the anti-nepotism law applies to federal agencies and not the White House. Others say Kushner could serve in the White House if he is not paid.

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