The Trump White House is so incompetent that they found a Trump adviser not by interviewing experts, but by having Jared Kushner search Amazon.
Vanity Fair has the inside story:
At one point during the campaign, when Trump wanted to speak more substantively about China, he gave Kushner a summary of his views and then asked him to do some research. Kushner simply went on Amazon, where he was struck by the title of one book, Death by China, co-authored by Peter Navarro. He cold-called Navarro, a well-known trade-deficit hawk, who agreed to join the team as an economic adviser. (When he joined, Navarro was in fact the campaign’s only economic adviser.) Kushner operated in much the same way when it came to crafting Trump’s tax plan—calling up someone for help out of the blue. Given the initial absence of pros who could do the job properly, he also tried his hand at writing speeches. Responding to criticism from the boss (“Jared, this is terrible!â€), Kushner said, according to a person familiar with the episode, “I’m not a fucking speechwriter. I am a real-estate guy.â€
Kushner is a real estate guy, and he is also the person that Donald Trump keeps putting in charge of major policy assignments. Remember, that it is Jared Kushner, who according to the Trump, is supposed to bring peace to the Middle East.
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The United States has been lucky so far to avoid a major crisis during the Trump administration, but eventually a natural disaster, terrorist attack, so some other unforeseen event is going to occur, and the incompetence of this administration will be front and center.
A president can’t have his son in law search Amazon for top advisers and think that everything is going to turn out well. The incompetence and lack of concern displayed by this administration for their responsibility to put qualified people in important positions are arguably an impeachable high crime against this country.
For those who are counting on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to keep the president in check, keep in mind that Jared and Ivanka have no idea what they are going.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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