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riversedge

(69,537 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 01:53 PM Apr 2020

Kushner encouraged Trump to push back against New York governor Andrew Cuomo...[when] he said New Yo



Kushner encouraged Trump to push back against New York governor Andrew Cuomo...[when] he said New York was short 30,000 ventilators. “This was a total mess,” Kushner told people when he got involved last month. “I know how to make this government run now.”


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“The Campaign Panicked”: Inside Trump’s Decision to Back Off of His Easter Coronavirus Miracle
An impulsive promise (“His view was: I need to show people there’s a light at the end of the tunnel”) led to Fauci pushback. Poll numbers—and a friend in a coma—pushed Trump to reverse course.

By Gabriel Sherman
April 1, 2020
The Campaign Panicked Inside Trumps Decision to Back Off of His Easter Coronavirus Miracle

By Win McNamee/Getty Images.

The national debate set off by Donald Trump’s announcement that he wanted churches packed on Easter was, like so many Trump crises, a self-inflicted one. In the days after Trump tweeted that “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF,” his medical advisers, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, implored Trump not to relax the government’s social distancing guidelines. Trump dug in. “His view was: I need to show people that there is light at the end of the tunnel,” a former West Wing official told me. Under pressure, members of the coronavirus task force discussed privately how parts of the country might be opened in April, but cautioned Trump not to get locked into a specific timetable given the deteriorating conditions in New York hospitals and ominous upticks in cases in New Orleans, Detroit, and elsewhere. “They discussed it internally, but they never intended Trump to announce it,” a Republican working with the task force told me.

Trump’s impulsive decision—and its messy aftermath—consumed the West Wing during the critical week that governors were pleading with the White House to deliver medical supplies before hospital systems began to collapse. “It was totally crazy,” the Republican told me. Dr. Fauci, Senator Lindsey Graham, and others raced to convince Trump that an Easter opening would be a cataclysmic error that could cost millions of lives. “This is a very, very stressful situation for everybody, including me,” Fauci told me in a phone interview on Monday. By last weekend Fauci’s arguments broke through: Trump agreed to extend the social distancing guidelines until the end of April.

Trump’s latest tonal and tactical shift (and almost certainly not the last) was driven by several factors, both personal and political. Trump learned that his close friend, 78-year-old New York real estate mogul Stan Chera, had contracted COVID-19 and fallen into a coma at NewYork-Presbyterian. “Boy, did that hit home. Stan is like one of his best friends,” said prominent New York Trump donor Bill White. Trump also grew concerned as the virus spread to Trump country. “The polling sucked. The campaign panicked about the numbers in red states. They don’t expect to win states that are getting blown to pieces with coronavirus,” a former West Wing official told me. From the beginning of the crisis, Trump had struggled to see it as anything other than a political problem, subject to his usual arsenal of tweets and attacks and bombast. But he ultimately realized that as bad as the stock market was, getting coronavirus wrong would end his presidency. “The campaign doesn’t matter anymore,” he recently told a friend, “what I do now will determine if I get reelected.”.........................
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Kushner encouraged Trump to push back against New York governor Andrew Cuomo...[when] he said New Yo (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2020 OP
I look forward to the history books that will soon be madaboutharry Apr 2020 #1
No one gives a fuck what he says randr Apr 2020 #2
The only think kushner knows how to run is his mouth. Haggis for Breakfast Apr 2020 #17
I do not believe that Jared can find his own ass with both hands... Moostache Apr 2020 #3
+1 MontanaMama Apr 2020 #4
Well said UpInArms Apr 2020 #5
But isn't he working on Middle East peace? Funtatlaguy Apr 2020 #6
Nope...he torpedoed that by releasing a 'plan' that ignored the Palestinians Moostache Apr 2020 #8
Supposedly. But he wants no peace by the East River. SummerSnow Apr 2020 #10
I was being tongue in cheek. He's a total joke, like his wife & family. Funtatlaguy Apr 2020 #11
I think he is very dangerous SummerSnow Apr 2020 #12
Tell me again, how did Jared make the "government run" any better for anyone? sop Apr 2020 #7
Divisiveness is their modus operandi. SummerSnow Apr 2020 #9
his election barbtries Apr 2020 #13
So is Kushner the one who told Trump to "Ride it out like a cowboy!"? nt Grasswire2 Apr 2020 #14
Trump has become a made in USA la-trucker Apr 2020 #15
"I need to show people that there is light at the end of the tunnel" tanyev Apr 2020 #16

madaboutharry

(40,138 posts)
1. I look forward to the history books that will soon be
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 01:55 PM
Apr 2020

written about just how much damage this spoiled twit (Kushner) has done to our nation.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. I do not believe that Jared can find his own ass with both hands...
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 01:59 PM
Apr 2020

NOTHING I have seen in the results he has 'produced' say anything but overly entitled moron to me. He is an imbecile of the highest order and sticking his dick into Trump's favorite child should not make him more entitled to anything other than STD patient screening line.

I would bet on a catatonic squirrel to beat him in any kind of mental challenge.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
8. Nope...he torpedoed that by releasing a 'plan' that ignored the Palestinians
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 02:08 PM
Apr 2020

and gave everything from Netanyahu's wishlist to Israel. Palestinians pretty much immediately said that it was a step backwards and that there was currently no honest broker to work with towards a permanent peace...

Like everything else in his miserable failure of a life, he fucking failed, utterly. Without backdoor deals and dirty money to fund him, Jared would be some drug dealer's prison wife long ago...if there is any justice left in the world, THAT is still his future.

barbtries

(28,689 posts)
13. his election
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 02:35 PM
Apr 2020

is all that matters.

so he's trying to prepare us to consider 200,000 dead as a victory by trump. fat chance.

tanyev

(42,278 posts)
16. "I need to show people that there is light at the end of the tunnel"
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 05:42 PM
Apr 2020

sounds like no combination of words that has ever emerged from Trump’s blather hole.

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