Michelle Goldberg has a great op-ed in the New York Times, looking at the corrupt duo Jared "Mr. Ivanka Trump" Kushner and Ivanka "Complicit" Trump through the lens of Vicky Ward's new book "Kushner, Inc." These two children of wealth and privilege breezed into Washington on the coattails of daddy Donald "Rump" Trump, and thought government business would be a breeze, like branding shoes or screwing up real estate deals. As Goldberg notes, the book reveals that the much-detested couple thinks they're destined for greatness:
"According to 'Kushner, Inc.,' Gary Cohn, former director of the National Economic Council, has told people that Ivanka Trump thinks she could someday be president. 'Her father’s reign in Washington, D.C., is, she believes, the beginning of a great American dynasty,' writes Ward. Kushner, whose pre-White House experience included owning a boutique newspaper and helming a catastrophically ill-timed real estate deal, has arrogated to himself substantial parts of American foreign policy." (our emphasis)Her delusions of grandeur are likely why she asked to sit in on meetings with the likes of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and occupied the ambassador's chair at the U.N. one time. Her head of delegation presence at the embassy dedication ceremony in Jerusalem after Rump moved it there was another annoying reminder of her sense of entitlement. Goldberg continues:
"Partly, the Jared and Ivanka story is about the 'reality distortion field' — a term one of Ward’s sources uses about Kushner — created by great family wealth. She quotes a member of Trump’s legal team saying that the two 'have no idea how normal people perceive, understand, intuit.' Privilege, in them, has been raised to the level of near sociopathy. [snip]
[Ward] knocks down the idea that either he or his wife is a stabilizing force or moral compass in the Trump administration. Multiple White House sources told her they think it was Kushner who ordered the closing of White House visitor logs in April 2017, because he 'didn’t want his frenetic networking exposed.' Ward reports that Cohn was stunned by their blasé reaction to Trump’s defense of the white-nationalist marchers in Charlottesville, Va.: 'He was upset that they were not sufficiently upset.'” (our emphasis)Of all of the creatures in and around the Rump regime, these two amoral climbers may be the most deceptive as far as their groomed public image. They also may be among the most dangerous to national security, as our intelligence community realized when their top secret clearances were denied.
