[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Jared Kushner was the only person in the world who could settle the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians. He worked on it up until the last day Trump was in office. As Jared said, "Settling the dispute is not necessary. I found a way the two could help themselves by doing business. The war between these two groups is over."

Jared is a genius and he must surely be right. At this moment the Palestinians and Israelis are shooting at each other and many are dying. Because Jared found a way for both groups to get along by trading the shooting will stop very soon and everything will be as he predicted.

Our country and, in fact, the entire world was lucky to have had this brilliant young man running foreign policy for four years. Think how much worse relations between Israel and the Palestinians would be if he had not worked out his deal.

Opinion | Kushner’s Israel-Palestine Peace Plan Has Failed - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

We are seeing the consequences of Joe Biden's failure to retain people with the best ideas for solving the Middle East and reimagining the federal government and fixing the VA's computers and leading the Corona Task Force and accelerating the Border Wall construction and heading up a reelection campaign and killing rodents in rental units.

Did anyone even read Jared's notes on any of that? I doubt it.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

We are seeing the consequences of Joe Biden's failure to retain people with the best ideas for solving the Middle East and reimagining the federal government and fixing the VA's computers and leading the Corona Task Force. Did anyone even read Jared's notes? I doubt it.

I doubt it as well, Dr. Toole. On new technological innovations in the Federal Government, he assembled a blue ribbon panel of people his age he knew from Ivy League schools. They met and made recommendations. President Trump did not have time to put them into effect but Sleepy Joe does. Uncle Joe should immediately put a team to work studying Jared's work, publishing and sending it to every corner of government and implementing what he recommended.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

...studying Jared's work...

I think of it more as doctrines. A set of moral guiding principles. A 3rd Testament, if you will. They will indeed be studying it, not just sleepy Joe but also the FBI.

[Dennis Lukes]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Do we still have to pretend to respect Jewred Kushner now that Trump isn't president anymore?

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Do we still have to pretend to respect Jewred Kushner now that Trump isn't president anymore?

The problem Jerad has is the inability to measure results from good management in the public sector. In private business it is measured by profits. Jerad's excellent work in the White House is that the current war is not as vicious as it could be. His work in making government more efficient is, as I understand, under review. His success is there--just not fully realized.

[Dennis Lukes]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Jerad's excellent work in the White House is that the current war is not as vicious as it could be. His work in making government more efficient is, as I understand, under review. His success is there--just not fully realized.

True. The ceasefire between the Jews and the Palestinians that Kushner worked on lasted four months after Trump left office before the rockets started flying. Good on Jarhead for keeping his innate Jewish tribal instincts in check and not blatantly and explicitly favoring Israel any more than every previous administration.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Sleepy Joe Biden is doing poorly as President because he has never been tested under fire.

If Donald Trump does not run for President to retake his stolen election we need someone who has faced adversity and prevailed. Even better, one who continues to face the fire. That person is Jared Kushner.

Even now when he is not in D.C. Jared is showing leadership. His real estate company is busy evicting dead beat renters in the Kushner properties. It appears he has set a record, evicting almost 600 renters during the last month.

This is Jared at his best, teaching our country about accountability. People need to learn when they sign a lease they have to pay. That's what makes this country great.

Jared Kushner's family firm set to unleash eviction wave amid pandemic | Salon.com

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Mr. Mayor, you will be as thrilled as I was at the newly released memoirs of Jared Kushner. It's a timely addition to the fanfiction of the Trump era, pointing out successes you may have missed and taking long detours to explain his own brilliance in what might seem to us regular administrative tasks.

Reviews describe it as “just 493 pages of pure boredom”. I have been fortunate to obtain a first hand-written draft that I attach below - you can see the progress he's made on his letters in just a couple of years. I look forward to his podfic channel - Jared reads Jared with additional commentary by Jared.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Reviews describe it as “just 493 pages of pure boredom”. I have been fortunate to obtain a first hand-written draft that I attach below - you can see the progress he's made on his letters in just a couple of years. I look forward to his podfic channel - Jared reads Jared with additional commentary by Jared.

Goodness, Dr. Tooley, you have good inside contracts to get an advanced copy of Jared's groundbreaking book. People who think meetings about goal setting, performance measurement and incremental improvements are boring just know nothing about modern management. Jared is an advocate of setting management objectives and quantitative evaluation.

The last major player on the national political stage trained in management was MBA Degree holder George W. Bush. He set clear goals before sending military into Afghanistan and Iraq. This allowed those wars to wrap up quickly and successfully.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Mr. Mayor, the character assassination of Jared never ends. Today it's Senate finance panel chair Ron Wyden who sent detailed questions on a deal for property owned by the then White House aide’s family.

Top senator seeks answers over Qatar link to $1.2bn Kushner property rescue

“I remain deeply concerned that funding from a foreign government was involved in the rescue of a Kushner-owned property while Jared Kushner was employed as a senior White House official closely involved in the formulation of US policy towards the Middle East,” Wyden said. “This is a serious issue, as federal criminal conflict of interest statutes for White House officials extend not only to matters affecting their own financial interests, but that of their direct relatives and spouses.”

Wyden also noted that Kushner was involved at the time in matters involving a diplomatic blockade against Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. He pointed to recent testimony by the former secretary of state Rex Tillerson, who said Kushner frequently engaged with foreign officials in a manner that was inconsistent with the views of other US government officials. In the case of Qatar, Tillerson said, Kushner expressed support for the blockade despite opposition from the Departments of State and Defense.

Kushner’s investment fund, Affinity Partners, has recently secured a $2bn (£1.7bn) investment from Saudi Arabia, which Wyden said raised additional questions about his communications with both Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and whether Kushner changed his stance on the Qatar blockade only after his family secured funding for the deal.

Circumstantial at best. Weaponization of justice at worst. Justice is meant to be about disciplining the slackers not punishing go-getters.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Mr. Mayor, the character assassination of Jared never ends. Today it's Senate finance panel chair Ron Wyden who sent detailed questions on a deal for property owned by the then White House aide’s family.
Circumstantial at best. Weaponization of justice at worst. Justice is meant to be about disciplining the slackers not punishing go-getters.

Isn't that just like liberals--taking as the ultimate wisdom what Federal bureaucrats say is in the national interest and ignoring what a smart and knowledgeable (let's not forget a Harvard graduate) advises them. That Jerad got a good deal from the Saudia friends after he tried to skewer Saudia's enemy does not mean he had something other than U.S. interests at heart.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Stop the Character Assassination of Jared Kushner

Isn't that just like liberals--taking as the ultimate wisdom what Federal bureaucrats say is in the national interest and ignoring what a smart and knowledgeable (let's not forget a Harvard graduate) advises them. That Jerad got a good deal from the Saudia friends after he tried to skewer Saudia's enemy does not mean he had something other than U.S. interests at heart.

The surprising blockade of Qatar over *checks notes* something-or-other, strongly supported by the Kushner Whitehouse, was certainly the most random coincidence in this whole government debacle. It's time to move on.