Little more than a week since Donald Trump won the presidency and sent the left into a collective meltdown that has the added benefit of being hilarious to watch, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show has emerged as must-see cable TV for transparently idiotic efforts to delegitimize Trump.
Maddow is raising the issue of Trump possibly hiring his son-in-law Jared Kushner, husband of daughter Ivanka, for a high-profile role in the White House as advisor or special counsel.
This just won't do, Maddow declared on her show Wednesday, citing a 1967 federal law that forbids the president from doling out government work to his or her relatives...
If the President-elect is actually trying to get his son-in-law (pause for effect) an official job in the government, that could be illegal. Son-in-laws are explicitly listed among the relatives to whom you are not allowed to give government jobs if you're president of the United States. Those anti-nepotism rules were passed in 1967 after President John F. Kennedy had named his brother Bobby to be his attorney general. There aren't supposed to be any Bobbys. There's not supposed to be any Jareds either, arguably but presumably the Trump administration will come up with some work around for that. Or maybe they just don't care!
And yet ... and yet ... it's not just the Kennedys who quickly come to mind as an example of blatant nepotism in the highest reaches of government. One need venture all the way back to the just-completed campaign to see a prominent beneficiary of it -- Trump's Democrat opponent in the general election, Hillary Clinton...
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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jack-coleman/2016/11/18/maddow-complains-about-possible-trump-nepotism-ignores-bill-clinton
