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Trump's son-in-law Kushner to take senior White House role

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He talks better than Trump. Trump must be. telling NJ governor won't try to get in his group since nepotism appointment is no nnoo. In confirmation procedure.

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What advice could a 35 year old with no government or policy knowledge or experience give towards the running of a world power? Someone please tell me.

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The Veteran Affairs department, an 180 billion dollar operation, may end up under the control of a 36 year old Fox News contributor. On the other hand, don't count out dark horse Sarah Palin until Trump announces his pick.

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Sadly, the nepotism laws are about financial gain, not political gain or influence. We need to change those laws to prevent family members from being appointed, assigned positions.

Back in President Clinton's day, we felt the same about Ms. Clinton. Nothing has changed. 1 Trump is enough inside the federal govt, just like 1 Clinton was back then, at least for me.

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Sadly, the nepotism laws are about financial gain, not political gain or influence.

Actually, not quite. The anti-nepotism laws were also created to prevent what was seen as an unfair abuse of power by Robert Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General during JFK's administration. Robert, presumably taking cues from a Jack who was very pissed off with U.S. Steel executives, unleashed some pretty destructive chaos on the steel industry to force them to walk back a price increase they had proposed after promising the president they would avoid doing just that. People took notice and decided (quite wisely), "Maybe relatives shouldn't be working together in positions of power."

Not that it matters since Trump is apparently going to effectively ignore the law.

And the GOP is going to effectively do nothing about it.

Welcome to the new normal.

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Literally anybody is more knowledgeable, reasonable and intelligent than the Dumpster, so on that basis Kushner is perfectly qualified to advise. The tennis shoes don't really add gravitas, though.

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I see Kushner's nomination as a strategic move to please the powerful and influential right wing American Jewish lobby.

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Not that it matters since Trump is apparently going to effectively ignore the law.

Obama was the ground layer for that, but it seems, you guys were perfectly content with it, right?

And the GOP is going to effectively do nothing about it.

Probably they'll do the exact same thing the Democrats did when Obama seemed to overreach on many things.

Welcome to the new normal.

Hmmm....really?

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Jared should break out his crunk dabbing dance moves like that other politician's kid.

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Who are these "you guys" who "were perfectly content with" anything at all, Bass? You seem to believe the world is divided neatly in two: those who are Republican and those who are Democrats, whom you seem to refer to mistakenly - as only Americans seem able to - as liberals. Now I am probably a liberal in many respects. I generally support such things as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free markets, civil rights, democratic societies, secular governments, gender equality, and international cooperation. Don't you? Conversely I deplore much about American politics, it's two right wings and the self-serving non-entities it throws up, including Clinton and Trump, its corruption by big money and the general ignorance of the voting public, brainwashed and diverted by a media in thrall to big money.

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And ofc the Trumpeteers and GOP fanatics don't see anything wrong with this. How long are they going to keep up the façade that, "Nothing possibly could go wrong with this scenario".

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For all of us holding our breath for the trainwreck to come, only consolation is we will make good money shorting dollar and the US markets and US treasuries and buying gold and the JPY (the latter against all reason but it will get stronger once Trump has stepped on 4 or 5 landmines).

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@bass

Obama was the ground layer for that, but it seems, you guys were perfectly content with it, right?

Simple question: do you think that Trump choosing his son-in-law, who's married to his daughter who is going to run Trump's international business empire, will help Trump 'drain the swamp'?

Bonus challenge. Can you answer without referring to Dems, libs, Obama, or Clinton?

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Nepotism.

What advice could a 35 year old with no government or policy knowledge or experience give towards the running of a world power? Someone please tell me.

Nothing at all. But that didn't stop his father-in-law...

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Now the entire U.S. the nation were the property of the Trump family. And Mr. Trump will pass the leadership to his son in law or maybe his son. And the whole nation will workshop the Trumps,celebrating the president's birthday, worrying his health,rally over his speech,hang a potrait of the president or his family in every American's family home...etc. Hey! Wasn't that sounds very familiar when the freedom world has depised that 'Stalinism'...the American people daily like will close to be like people in North Korea?

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Nepotism is ALWAYS the wrong thing to do. Mistake. Another one.

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AP: In arguing that the measure did not apply to the West Wing, Kushner’s lawyer cited an opinion from two federal court judges in a 1993 case involving Hillary Clinton’s work on her husband’s health care law.

Wow, mention of Hillary totally missing in the comments.

I think someone did mention that as an 'achievement' when they were scrounging for accomplishments to justify her election run, in another thread.

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Simple question: do you think that Trump choosing his son-in-law, who's married to his daughter who is going to run Trump's international business empire, will help Trump 'drain the swamp'?

Bonus challenge. Can you answer without referring to Dems, libs, Obama, or Clinton?

That would depend if you can stay on the issue and not be a partisan.

But to your overall point: Yes, most definitely.

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@turbotsat - I don't have an issue with Ms. Clinton being elected to the senate or being appointed as Secretary of State. Those were places the voters in her state decided and a democratic president appointed. Fine. My issue was with the attempt during the President Clinton years of appointing her to do anything in the government when her husband was in power. Vaguely remember "two for the price of one" being mentioned at the time. We elected 1 of those people. The other was to be 1st Lady, which is generally a role that American like, even if we dislike the President's work/politics.

Nobody in the Trump family should have any appointments or directly advise Mr. Trump in an official capacity. He needs to appoint non-family people. So far the list of appointments seem to be either the fox-watching-the-henhouse or the farmer-in-charge-of-computers type people. The head of vaccine safety is anti-vaccine. Don't know if that is good or bad. Since vaccines are one of the most important inventions for all humankind - right up there with wheels.

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PM--Simple question: do you think that Trump choosing his son-in-law, who's married to his daughter who is going to run Trump's international business empire, will help Trump 'drain the swamp'?

Bass--Yes, most definitely.

Interesting. Care to explain how?

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theFu: @turbotsat - ... My issue was with the attempt during the President Clinton years of appointing her to do anything in the government when her husband was in power. Vaguely remember "two for the price of one" being mentioned at the time. We elected 1 of those people. The other was to be 1st Lady, which is generally a role that American like, even if we dislike the President's work/politics.

Nobody in the Trump family should have any appointments or directly advise Mr. Trump in an official capacity. ...

The problem was Hillary was unexperienced, incompetent, and has some extremely invalidating character flaws, such as viciousness and vindictiveness. Every time she steps up to bat she screws up.

Jared is just being picked to be an advisor to his father-in-law. Obviously, as a billionaire, he doesn't need the salary, so one of the usual objections to nepotism doesn't apply at all. He's already shown himself to be a competent person.

That wasn't the case with Hillary and she kept proving why she shouldn't have been considered.

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