Kushner admitted: "Trump thinks Republicans are stupid"

Oh, this is novel.

During a discussion on how to cover Trump, the former New York Observer editor, Elizabeth Spiers, claimed she told Kushner that she had serious problems with Trump’s repeated claims that Obama was not born in the U.S., to which Kushner allegedly told her: "He doesn't really believe it, Elizabeth. He just knows Republicans are stupid and they'll buy it."

My response to a right-wing blogger who called me a kook and a loser for stating that Donald Trump is a liar / water is wet: pic.twitter.com/pAp18w2x3W

— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers) May 28, 2017

So basically Trump was deliberately and successfully lying about his belief that Obama’s birth certificate was somehow false since 2011.  He perpetuated this lie because it would appeal to Republicans — and it did — but he didn’t actually believe it himself.

He manipulated them.  He used them.  And they fell for it, just as they’ve fallen for every single one of his little con jobs.  He’s a fraud, and they’ve rewarded him for it.

Wouldn’t it be something if they finally woke up to that reality?

On another point Spiers has some particularly interesting insights into Kushner from her time working for him, and how his working processes just might impact the country.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 · 11:00:08 PM +00:00 · Frank Vyan Walton

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