Calling Mr Kushner, Mr Jared Kushner:
A day before six career federal prosecutors resigned in protest over the Justice Department’s handling of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, lawyers in the office had a conversation with Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, that left them deeply unsettled.
According to several people with knowledge of the telephone conversation, which took place on Jan. 12, Mr. Bovino made derisive remarks about the faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, Daniel N. Rosen. Mr. Rosen is an Orthodox Jew and observes Shabbat, a period of rest between Friday and Saturday nights that often includes refraining from using electronic devices.
Mr. Bovino, who has been the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, used the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, according to the people with knowledge of the call. He also asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Rosen understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off, the people said.
Mr. Bovino had requested the meeting with Mr. Rosen to press the Minnesota office to work more aggressively to seek criminal charges against people Mr. Bovino believed were unlawfully impeding the work of his immigration agents.
Remember when Donald Trump and his henchmen blackmailed universities with threats to cut off all funding if they didn’t take action on alleged campus antisemitism? Yeah, I knew that you would.
The only reason they got rid of Bovino is because they needed a fall guy and Trump thought he was too short to be out of central casting. (In reality, Bovino is a perfect Nazi, right down to the fashy haircut and SS Greatcoat.) I have no doubt that Trump and his men loved watching him strut around brutalizing people everywhere he went. If only he were 6’2″…