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Kushner Mess-Ups Thrive Under D.C.’s Collective Amnesia

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Rolling Stone D.C. Bureau Chief Andy Kroll about the specifics around Jared Kushner’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis, the role of Oscar Health, the group of Bush-era doctors and epidemiologists calling themselves “Red Dawn,” and the collective amnesia in Washington, D.C. that prevents us from tackling sizable problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When the Vice President first asked me to help on the task force with different tasks,

0:04.7

I asked the President what he expected from the task force and how I can best serve him in the task force.

0:10.3

What the President asked is that all of the recommendations that we make be based on data.

0:16.7

I feel sad for anybody has to stand in that task force and

0:23.2

practically validate what's coming out of the President's mouth,

0:26.2

except for an occasional clarification.

0:29.3

To me, it's never been a question of whether or not we reopen,

0:33.0

it's not reopen or not reopen, you have to.

0:36.0

It's how we reopen.

0:41.4

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:44.8

Trumpcast has inevitably become Putin cast at times.

0:48.0

Also, Republican Senate cast, bar cast,

0:50.8

Manafort cast and stone cast, because the Sikotrump Syndicate contains multitudes of

0:56.4

enablers, butlers, valets, factodoms, and Mike Pence.

1:02.4

And today we're doing Kushnercast, because Trump's cadaverist son-in-law, Jared,

1:07.4

is one of the syndicate's biggest, hollow-eyed, Thorzean deprived madman.

1:12.2

And we're still, he always seems to weadle his way into having actual power.

1:17.4

What the Harvard Cheat and Felens son, Jared, inevitably calls his portfolio,

1:22.7

really seems to be carte blanche to consort with smug, vicious little princes like himself,

1:28.5

including one Muhammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who ordered you'll remember an American resident,

1:34.5

sought up and torn limb from limb. And now, once again, Jared Kushner is aligned with American death.

1:42.2

This time, the nearly 76,000 deaths from coronavirus, that Jared has described as a great success story.

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