So let me get this straight. The president’s son-in-law, who doesn’t actually have a job in the administration but is somehow “deeply involved” anyway, sat down in a private room in New York City with the man who wants to be the next Speaker of the House. A mutual friend set it up. Nobody told the Speaker of the House about it. And we’re supposed to believe this was just two fellas catching up.
Bless their hearts.
RDNE Stock project / PexelsHere’s what we know, because the New York Times let it slip on a Sunday morning when nobody was looking. Jared Kushner and Hakeem Jeffries met privately in recent weeks to discuss “potential areas of common ground.” Housing. Immigration. Cost of living. The kind of kitchen-table stuff that affects every family in this country, being negotiated in a back room by a guy who can’t get confirmed to anything and a guy who’s spent the last year calling your president a “wannabe thug.”
I have questions.
Question one: Since when does Jared Kushner, a man with no official title, no Senate confirmation, and no accountability to a single voter in this country, get to be the back-channel diplomat between the White House and the Democratic leader? ABC News says he “continues to serve as an outside adviser to the president” and