{"id":7216,"date":"2022-08-17T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:23:32","slug":"the-author-of-all-woe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-author-of-all-woe\/","title":{"rendered":"The author of all woe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Mark-1, Mod-0 nitwit Peter Navarro aptly dubs the Clown Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Take credit for what worked. Shift the blame for what didn\u2019t. Run to Daddy-in-law whenever the big, bad chief of staff got in his way. That was Jared Kushner\u2019s modus operandi<\/em> during the long four years I had to serve alongside the man most responsible for the loss of the Trump White House.<\/p>\n

Kushner came to the D.C. swamp on the coattails of his wife as nothing more than a young and rich, run-of-the-mill liberal New York Democrat with a worldview totally orthogonal to the president he was supposed to serve. Yet, within the West Wing, Kushner considered himself to be the ultimate \u201cTrump whisperer.\u201d<\/p>\n

In private, Jared would boast about how he had brought the president back from whatever he considered the brink to be that day\u2014whether it was securing the southern border, leaving NAFTA, or slapping tariffs on China. Never mind that he was derailing, deterring, and delaying Trump\u2019s Make America Great Again agenda in real-time and at great political and economic costs.<\/p>\n

Jared\u2019s \u201cneuter the boss\u201d role quickly became a source of friction between us. He believed that I, more than anyone inside the West Wing, could \u201crile up\u201d the president to take actions that were, in fact, totally consistent<\/em> with Trump\u2019s central campaign promises. But as this particular Wall Street transactionalist liked to say (and it always made me cringe): \u201cThat was the campaign. This is reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the cold light of a January West Wing day, there was simply no other explanation than nepotism to account for how this decidedly unqualified Clown Prince wound up sitting as a modern-day Rasputin at the right hand of Trump.<\/p>\n

To this day, my old Boss still has no idea just how much damage Kushner\/Rasputin did to the presidency and the Trump agenda during his four year reign of error at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The work of fiction Jared is now readying for publication is just more self-serving manure to shovel over the past and obscure our view of the damage.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, if Trump makes it back to the White House, it will be a Kushner-free zone. Kushner has already disqualified himself from future White House employment by cashing in on his White House connections to fund his many entrepreneurial ventures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can’t honestly say I’m unhappy to hear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is the Mark-1, Mod-0 nitwit Peter Navarro aptly dubs the Clown Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue. Take credit for what worked. Shift the blame for what didn\u2019t. Run to Daddy-in-law whenever the big, bad chief of staff got in his way. That was Jared Kushner\u2019s modus…<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more? The author of all woe<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,30,42,48,90,107,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-bah","category-commies","category-disasters-near-and-far","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-real-men-of-genius","category-the-liberal-way-of-war","category-willful-stupidity","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-11-id","wpcat-30-id","wpcat-42-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-90-id","wpcat-107-id","wpcat-123-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7217,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions\/7217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}