President Trump promised only the best people and so he has surrounded himself with the worlds most learned experts:
Just before midnight Wednesday, a doctor asked a group of fellow emergency room physicians on Facebook how they would combat the escalating coronavirus outbreak.
“I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House,” Kurt Kloss wrote in his post.
The next morning, after hundreds of doctors responded, Kloss explained why he sought the suggestions: Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, had asked him for recommendations.
Kloss, whose daughter is married to Kushner’s brother, sent Kushner 12 recommendations Thursday morning.
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Trump appointed Vice President Mike Pence to lead a task force to combat the spread of the coronavirus two weeks ago. But in recent days as conditions worsened and criticism mounted, Kushner took a more active role, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Trump has tapped Kushner to lead on several contentious issues, including Middle East peace, immigration and criminal justice reform, all of which involved him engaging in lengthy consultations with impacted people before recommending a decision to Trump.
In a Facebook post, Kloss said Kushner is “now directly involved in the response to this,” referring to coronavirus.
The Facebook group, EM Docs, has nearly 22,000 members around the globe who are required to provide their credentials to join. The posts about Kushner’s request have been removed but a member shared pictures of them with POLITICO. The Spectator first reported on the posts late Wednesday.
This actually tracks with Trump’s earlier reliance on Fox News commentators, random military guys he runs into at rallies, cops etc over academics, Generals, and legal experts.
Recall:
So, what gives? Trump wants to know. Where’s his win? “We aren’t winning,” Trump complained, according to officials. “We are losing.” To help make his generals better understand what he was talking about the president of the United States compared U.S. policy in Afghanistan to the time his favorite restaurant in Manhattan closed down for renovations in the 1980s.
Trump told his advisers that the restaurant, Manhattan’s elite ‘21’ Club, had shut its doors for a year and hired an expensive consultant to craft a plan for a renovation.
After a year, Trump said, the consultant’s only suggestion was that the restaurant needed a bigger kitchen.
Officials said Trump kept stressing the idea that lousy advice cost the owner a year of lost business and that talking to the restaurant’s waiters instead might have yielded a better result.
He also said the tendency is to assume if someone isn’t a three-star general he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and that in his own experience in business talking to low-ranking workers has gotten him better outcomes.
It was a lie, of course. None of that happened the way he said it did.
Kloss reportedly wrote earlier on this Facebook page that he was relieved that Fauci was involved, so there’s that.
Apparently, neither the health experts or the financial experts Trump consulted knew what they were talking about. So he got Jared on the case. And that speech Wednesday night and the press conference today are the result.
Jared is a very stable genius, just like his daddy-in-law.