Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner

[libertybele]

God help us!  I watched the briefing and then Kushner began to speak -- he spoke with a smug smile at times, spoke very rapidly and arrogantly.  IMHO, he is not on team Trump or team America he is on team Kushner.

Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner

At his coronavirus press briefing yesterday, Fox News correspondent John Roberts asked President Trump about his 2018 decision to eliminate the National Security Council’s pandemic-response office. Trump lashed out, “You know that’s a false story, what you just said is a false story … You shouldn’t be repeating a story you know is false,” accusing Roberts of “working for CNN.” (The charge of committing legitimate journalism is the most serious Trump could think to hurl at a Fox News employee.)

The story is not false. Trump did eliminate the job of coordinating a national pandemic response. And the strongest evidence of the damage he did is that this job is now being performed by Jared Kushner.

In May 2018, the top White House official who was focused on pandemic response departed the White House. “The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded,” reported the Washington Post at the time. Trump and his allies — including then-NSC director John Bolton, who undertook the ill-fated move — have since tried to muddy the waters about these moves, emphasizing the fact that they merely reorganized the National Security Council rather than bluntly firing everybody involved in pandemic response.

It is true that they kept some global-health officials onboard. But one purpose of the reorganization was to deemphasize pandemic response in favor of other priorities. Nobody bothered to deny this at the time. “In a world of limited resources, you have to pick and choose,” an administration official explained to the Post in its 2018 story. “We lost a little bit of the leadership, but the expertise remains.” The pandemic-response office was created in order to give the issue high-level attention. Trump’s team downgraded the office because they thought it needed less attention. In a world of limited resources, you have to pick and choose, and they chose issues other than pandemic response....

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trump-fired-pandemic-response-jared-kushner-coronavirus.html

[libertybele]

Similar article:

Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/01/jared-kushner-coronavirus-response-160553

[goatprairie]

Who is Mike Pence? I haven't heard anything about Kushner being involved much less leading the response team in this  crisis.

[txradioguy]

Well we know who’s really running the response to this virus now. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is bullshit.

[240B]

Politico is as bad a CNN with fake news propaganda.
In fact, they feed off of each other. CNN reports a fake story,
then Politico reports the same fake story, or the other way around.
The next thing you know the fake story evolves into a mainstream story which is the entire point.

[Smokin Joe]

Politico is as bad a CNN with fake news propaganda.
In fact, they feed off of each other. CNN reports a fake story,
then Politico reports the same fake story, or the other way around.
The next thing you know the fake story evolves into a mainstream story which is the entire point.

Well, that's because "Media sources said...."

[libertybele]

Who is Mike Pence? I haven't heard anything about Kushner being involved much less leading the response team in this  crisis.

I didn't know that Kushner was involved until I saw him speak at the COVID-19 press conference this evening.  His smirky smile made me cringe and I stopped watching. I then searched to get some more information and posted the articles.  Regardless of the source of the articles, he indeed is part of the response team to the virus.

IMHO in watching him respond to the questions from the press, he appears to be stepping on Pence's toes and made it seem that he was there because Pence wasn't doing a good enough job "managing" the situation.  In fact Kushner made the comment to a question "that's what good managers" do.   Not a good thing.

[Cyber Liberty]

I didn't know that Kushner was involved until I saw him speak at the COVID-19 press conference this evening.  His smirky smile made me cringe and I stopped watching. I then searched to get some more information and posted the articles.  Regardless of the source of the articles, he indeed is part of the response team to the virus.

IMHO in watching him respond to the questions from the press, he appears to be stepping on Pence's toes and made it seem that he was there because Pence wasn't doing a good enough job "managing" the situation.  In fact Kushner made the comment to a question "that's what good managers" do.   Not a good thing.

Obviously a Trumpian plot.

[aligncare]

I won’t believe any media story until Rush or Hannity confirms it on their show.

[mystery-ak]

I didn't think he was so bad except he talks sooooooooooo fast I had trouble following....

...btw does he shave yet....oh I am so catty....

[libertybele]

I didn't think he was so bad except he talks sooooooooooo fast I had trouble following....

...btw does he shave yet....oh I am so catty....

I've never heard him speak before, so I don't know if that's the normal pace that he speaks at or if he was just nervous.

Nah...I don't think he shaves yet.

Did you notice the smirky smile a couple of times? What was up with that?  It was like he knew the journalist and knew the question that was going to be asked.

[libertybele]

This is bullshit.

Regardless if the story is b.s. or not, the fact IS that Kushner is now part of the pandemic response team. He took part in taking questions from the press and explained a bit of what he was working on and his effort. It seemed to me that he was bragging about his good management skills while stepping on Pence's toes ... although he talked so quickly at times it was difficult to catch everything that he said. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Regardless if the story is b.s. or not, the fact IS that Kushner is now part of the pandemic response team. He took part in taking questions from the press and explained a bit of what he was working on and his effort. It seemed to me that he was bragging about his good management skills while stepping on Pence's toes ... although he talked so quickly at times it was difficult to catch everything that he said.

I haven't seen enough to know if someone should be disqualified for being maned "Kushner."     I don't think he's a good one to put on the team...

[libertybele]

I haven't seen enough to know if someone should be disqualified for being maned "Kushner."     I don't think he's a good one to put on the team...

I have posted several articles over the past couple of years with many links tying Kushner to Soros, Obama/Obamacare, Middle East, and now also his involvement with China.  The source of the articles and content can always be disputed, I for one believe that Kushner is someone Trump shouldn't trust; my mistrust all started with finding out that Jared and his brother Joshua got their start up money from Soros to start Cadre, a real estate tech company....with numerous subsidiaries and involvements around the globe, including China.  I question Trump's judgement of Jared ... and in turn it makes me question at times Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/08/jared-kushners-company-under-renewed-scrutiny-over-chinese-and-israeli-deals

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/17/520498632/kushner-family-could-get-millions-from-chinese-company-in-real-estate-deal

https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-chinese-executive-prison-919562

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/01/17/woman-with-chinese-government-connections-bought-jared-and-ivankas-penthouse/#5a61557022d9

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-kushner/jared-kushner-trumps-son-in-law-takes-bigger-role-in-china-trade-talks-idUSKBN1Y80IA

https://www.citizensforethics.org/jared-kushner-cadre-certificate-divestiture/

https://chinaus-icas.org/jared-kushner/

[Cyber Liberty]

My primary concern is, is Kushner good at coordinating supply chain logistics? 

[txradioguy]

My primary concern is, is Kushner good at coordinating supply chain logistics?

Assuming he knows what that is.

[Chosen Daughter]

 

[TomSea]

I have posted several articles over the past couple of years with many links tying Kushner to Soros, Obama/Obamacare, Middle East, and now also his involvement with China.  The source of the articles and content can always be disputed, I for one believe that Kushner is someone Trump shouldn't trust; my mistrust all started with finding out that Jared and his brother Joshua got their start up money from Soros to start Cadre, a real estate tech company....with numerous subsidiaries and involvements around the globe, including China.  I question Trump's judgement of Jared ... and in turn it makes me question at times Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/08/jared-kushners-company-under-renewed-scrutiny-over-chinese-and-israeli-deals

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/17/520498632/kushner-family-could-get-millions-from-chinese-company-in-real-estate-deal

https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-chinese-executive-prison-919562

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/01/17/woman-with-chinese-government-connections-bought-jared-and-ivankas-penthouse/#5a61557022d9

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-kushner/jared-kushner-trumps-son-in-law-takes-bigger-role-in-china-trade-talks-idUSKBN1Y80IA

https://www.citizensforethics.org/jared-kushner-cadre-certificate-divestiture/

https://chinaus-icas.org/jared-kushner/

Great post. I'm very wary of the selection too.

A great wealth of info here though, I doubt if they'll give China any kind of pass on this.

[txradioguy]

I have posted several articles over the past couple of years with many links tying Kushner to Soros, Obama/Obamacare, Middle East, and now also his involvement with China.  The source of the articles and content can always be disputed, I for one believe that Kushner is someone Trump shouldn't trust; my mistrust all started with finding out that Jared and his brother Joshua got their start up money from Soros to start Cadre, a real estate tech company....with numerous subsidiaries and involvements around the globe, including China.  I question Trump's judgement of Jared ... and in turn it makes me question at times Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/08/jared-kushners-company-under-renewed-scrutiny-over-chinese-and-israeli-deals

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/17/520498632/kushner-family-could-get-millions-from-chinese-company-in-real-estate-deal

https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-chinese-executive-prison-919562

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/01/17/woman-with-chinese-government-connections-bought-jared-and-ivankas-penthouse/#5a61557022d9

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-kushner/jared-kushner-trumps-son-in-law-takes-bigger-role-in-china-trade-talks-idUSKBN1Y80IA

https://www.citizensforethics.org/jared-kushner-cadre-certificate-divestiture/

https://chinaus-icas.org/jared-kushner/

Did you notice he completely ducked the question about what his qualifications were to be on this task force?

[Chosen Daughter]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/

[LilLamb]

Trump did not disband the Pandemic response team. Tim Morrison was the head of the team and he said it is still part of the NSA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-house-didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[Absalom]

Kushner and his family elders are well established NYC Slum-lords
in and out of the Courts for decades.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Who is Mike Pence? I haven't heard anything about Kushner being involved much less leading the response team in this  crisis.

This was addressed fully during today's briefing @goatprairie  Kushner is on Pence's team, reporting to Pence and working under Pence's instructions.

In other words, the Special Assistant to the President is on loan to the corona task force for as long as he may be needed. 

Love him or hate him, Kushner is one smart dude who has been involved in the inner workings of the federal government for more than three years --- and he's doing it for free.  I wish him success here.

[Cyber Liberty]

I wish him success here.

So do I.  That's the first mention on this thread of "good luck."