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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Townhall.com Ed Klein |Posted: Apr 04, 2017 Shortly after Donald Trump entered the White House, his chief strategist Steve Bannon told a friend that he had a premonition of impending disaster: “I expect to be out of here in six months,” he reportedly said, “and it’ll be Jared who runs me out.” He was, of course, referring to Jared Kushner, the president’s 36-year-old son-in-law, who despite his youth and lack of government experience, has amassed more power than anyone else in the White House, including Bannon, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Vice President Mike Pence. It is Kushner who arranged this week’s summit meeting at Mar-a-Lago between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping—a meeting Kushner set up with the aim of improving relations between the two countries rather than confronting Beijing, as Bannon would have preferred. As The New York Times reported: “Chinese courtship of Mr. Kushner…reflects the Chinese comfort with dynastic links. {President] Xi is himself a ‘princeling’: his father was…a major figure in the Communist revolution.” Trump is indeed most comfortable with family—and with successful businessmen. Jared Kushner—the scion of a real estate empire—and his wife, Ivanka, are said to be worth $740 million. In spite of his lack of Washington experience, this American princeling has proved to be a wily political infighter. Way back in June, 2016, it was Prince Kushner who got rid of Trump’s temperamental first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. It was Prince Kushner who, along with Ivanka, deep-sixed Trump’s first choice of a vice presidential running mate—New Jersey Governor Chris Christie—and persuaded his father-in-law to go with Indiana Governor Mike Pence. It was Prince Kushner who arranged for candidate Trump to meet with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto just before Trump delivered a tough immigration speech. It was Prince Kushner who anticipated the Trump administration’s failure to repeal and replace Obamacare; he ducked responsibility by conveniently remaining with Ivanka and their three children on the slopes of Aspen during the health care debacle. It was Prince Kushner who was tapped by Trump to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It was Prince Kushner who was put in charge of a grandiose domestic operation called the White House Office of American Innovation, which includes the opioid epidemic and veterans’ affairs—a portfolio that once belonged to Kellyanne Conway. Prince Kushner has, in effect, become Donald Trump’s prime minister. And Steve Bannon isn’t the only one in the White House who should be worried. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | ||
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Ball Haulin' |
More media induced drama. I dont fucking care who's got who's ear or who gets asked about lunch first. Get the damned job done. -------------------------------------- "There are things we know. There are things we dont know. Then there are the things we dont know that we dont know." | |||
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Freaking AMEN!!!! But FIFY.....  "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Agreed. There is always a friend or relative that has access and influence. | |||
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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
Have to admit didn't know who "Ed Klein" was. from his bio: "Edward J. Klein is an American author, tabloid writer and gossip columnist who has written about the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. Wikipedia Born: 1937, Yonkers, NY Education: Colgate University, Columbia University" Personally it looks like he needs more roughage in his diet. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
The Demonrats are petulant children. Like children they have to copycat what the Republicans have : However, they have a very low threshold of copycatting because we were against people who hate America, have actual ties to America's enemies, etc. They're good with fake ties to America's enemies, and think hating liberalism is the same as hating America. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
It is just another data point for us tea leaf readers, possibly accurate, perhaps over dramatized, maybe planted by Bannonites, as we try to figure out what to expect. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
What have we heard from - or even about, other than a few snowflakes calling him racist and the HMFIC of the KKK - Steve Bannon since Trump took office? Must be a "behind the scenes" guy. | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Ed Klein may not like Donald Trump but I don't see anything to dislike, so far, about the Donald's son-in-law. He (Kushner) seems like a very bright and capable guy that knows how to keep his mouth shut and just gets the job done. He has the confidence of the President so whats the problem? ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Don't Panic |
Oddly, as much as the author wants my spider-sense to tingle, it sounds like Mr. Kushner has been doing pretty good work for his father-in-law. | |||
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| Ball Haulin' |
I have no issue with Kuchner. Can he do the job? If so fine. I could care less about the rumor and innuendo. That's the problem in this Country. Everything is a damn extension of Facebook. -------------------------------------- "There are things we know. There are things we dont know. Then there are the things we dont know that we dont know." | |||
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Brass Pounder |
President Kennedy wanted his brother Robert around as Attorney General and trusted adviser. Bill Clinton appointed Hildebeast to be the point of the spear in her failed nationalization of the healthcare system. If other presidents could keep family members around them in the White House, why can't Trump? I agree that as long as he does his job, then Kushner being there there should be no problem. | |||
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| Freethinker |
I hope no one here believes that was a bad idea. ► 6.4/93.6 “I regret that I am to now die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.” — Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Jared: the galleria of Presidential advisors. Ed Klein is the less-gay soul mate of Perez Hilton. Nothing more. . | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
The way President Trump has been treated--even by members of the GOP, it's no wonder he's leaning on family. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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