{"id":34644,"date":"2017-07-14T05:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34644"},"modified":"2017-07-14T05:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T05:15:45","slug":"ivanka-and-jared-begin-the-plunge-from-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/ivanka-and-jared-begin-the-plunge-from-grace.html","title":{"rendered":"Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace:- Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have tried their best to soar gracefully above the raging dumpster fire that is the Trump administration. Unhappily for the handsome couple, gravity makes no allowances for charm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kushner, already reported to be a \u201cperson of interest\u201d in the Justice Department probe of President Trump\u2019s campaign, is arguably the individual with the most to lose from the revelation that the campaign did, after all, at least attempt to collude with the Russian government to boost Trump\u2019s chances of winning the election.<\/span><\/p>\n

The president\u2019s hapless eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. \u2014 who convened the June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer for the purpose of obtaining dirt on Hillary Clinton \u2014 had no operational role in the campaign. Paul J. Manafort, who also attended, was the campaign\u2019s chairman, but his many shady business dealings with several Ukrainian and Russian characters were already under scrutiny, so the encounter with attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya could be seen as just another item on the list.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kushner was at the meeting, too, however, and he had oversight of the campaign\u2019s digital operations. That could be a problem, given the U.S. intelligence community\u2019s conclusion that Russia interfered with the election and that the meddling took place largely in cyberspace.<\/span><\/p>\n

And unlike the other participants, Kushner has an official position in the Trump administration. He serves in the White House as a senior adviser to the president with responsibility for numerous high-profile initiatives \u2014 and with a top-secret security clearance, which should be revoked immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump Jr. says that Kushner didn\u2019t stay long at the session with Veselnitskaya and that no damaging information about Clinton was imparted. But because he kept the meeting secret for more than a year, scoffing indignantly at the very notion of collusion with the Russians, and then twice lied about the nature of the meeting before finally coming clean, no one should believe another word that Trump Jr. says on the subject. At least, not until special counsel Robert S. Mueller III puts him under oath, which I believe is likely to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

At one point in his changing story, Trump Jr. said that Kushner and Manafort didn\u2019t even know what the meeting was about. Yet he copied both of them on an email chain that begins with an intermediary\u2019s offer of campaign help from the \u201cRussian government.\u201d The proper thing to do would have been to call the FBI, but this crowd knows nothing of propriety.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ivanka Trump\u2019s name has not surfaced in the Russia affair. But she, like her husband, is serving as a presidential adviser, and she received unwanted attention when she briefly took her father\u2019s place at the head table during the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg. We expect officials representing our country to have been elected by the voters or appointed because of merit, not installed by the caprices of heredity.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also received unwanted scrutiny when three labor activists were arrested in May for investigating alleged sweatshop practices at a factory in China where Ivanka Trump-brand shoes have been manufactured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among Manhattan\u2019s progressive upper crust, Jared and Ivanka \u2014 they really are first-name-only celebrities at this point \u2014 were expected to at least temper the hard-right policy positions being pushed by other presidential advisers. If this indeed is what they are trying to do, they\u2019ve had a negligible impact to date.<\/span><\/p>\n

Writing in Time magazine, Henry Kissinger wished Kushner well \u201cin his daunting role flying close to the sun.\u201d Jared and Ivanka have first-class educations. They know how the Icarus story ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ivanka-and-jared-begin-the-plunge-from-grace\/2017\/07\/13\/0c8d7072-6805-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html?utm_term=.e9b829a8435a<\/span><\/p>\n

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