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When you don’t trust Science, don’t trust medical experts, don’t trust the pleas of local officials and health care workers — who do you call?
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J.A.R.E.D — the Czar of everything; and expert — at only failure.
Behind the scenes, Kushner takes charge of coronavirus response
Trump’s son-in-law sets up shop at FEMA as his portfolio balloons to include manufacturing, supplies and long-term planning.
by ADAM CANCRYN and DAN DIAMOND, Politico — 04/01/2020
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Yet the co-mingling of administration aides and private-sector executives has led to new quandaries, according to health officials and even some of the outside advisers working with Kushner. Projects are so decentralized that one team often has little idea what others are doing — outside of that they all report up to Kushner. People around Kushner are fielding all manner of outside pitches, making it difficult for the group to stay focused.
And there is limited vetting of private companies' and executives' financial interests, raising questions about the motivations and potential conflicts inherent in an operation that relies on an ill-defined and ever-expanding group of outside contributors.
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Nonetheless, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which has already warned that Kushner's operation could violate federal recordkeeping laws, blasted the White House for its extensive reliance on the private sector and lack of transparency.
"They're not necessarily doing something nefarious, but if they were, this is what they would do to hide it," CREW spokesperson Jordan Libowitz said.
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All this back-channel incompetence has led one Republican official to proclaim …
"I don't know how our government operates anymore," said one Republican close to the administration, lamenting that the sudden authority granted to non-governmental actors had left them with their "eyebrow raised unbelievably high."
One question:
What in the hell ... took you so long?
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Here is that “Shadow Guvmit” that Trump fanatics have been looking for …
This is what Nepotism on Steroids looks like, my friends.
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Pass it on.