Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham in a forthcoming book described former President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner as “Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit.”
Grisham, who served as the White House press secretary for nine months, is set to release a new book, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House” on Tuesday.
In a section of the book that was adapted and published in Politico on Friday, Grisham criticized Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, for involving themselves in White House decisions, including pushing for a national address on COVID-19 last year.
In the adapted section of the book, Grisham describes how she found out about a meeting that was taking place on March 11, 2020, between Kushner, Hope Hicks and White House counsel Pat Cipollone regarding an apparent need for Trump to give an Oval Office address to the nation on COVID-19. The World Health Organization had just designated the virus as a pandemic.
Grisham explained that a meeting occurred several hours later in the Oval Office so Trump could be briefed on the latest COVID-19 updates. During the meeting, Grisham claimed that his daughter, Ivanka Trump, insisted that the president make an address to the nation on the pandemic.
Grisham also claimed that Kushner had worked with the president’s speechwriter and “dictated” what the president would say in front of the nation.
"Katie Miller, an aide to the vice president, was married to speechwriter Stephen Miller. So she went into Stephen’s office and sat there while Jared Kushner frantically dictated the address to Stephen, who wrote something out,” Grisham wrote.
The former White House press secretary expressed her frustration at Kushner for involving himself in the speech, saying “the more I thought about it, the more outraged I grew at Jared’s behavior.”
“He was not an expert on any of those things — shutting down borders, the economic consequences, the health consequences — yet he alone seemed to be deciding the nation’s first actions to address one of the most devastating crises in our history,” she wrote.
Isn't it odd when "anti-semitic tropes" turn out to be true?
Why do we have to moralize and redefine the truth when dealing with certain groups of people? Why can't it just be, "yea, that's what happened. That was what was going on. This is true."?
By the end of the Trump presidency, pretty much anyone with a pulse could see that Kushner Inc was calling the shots. Predictably, most saw it as Trump's downfall. And it probably was.
Even Trump himself said Kushner was "more loyal to Israel than the US."
"'You know,' Trump joked in another meeting, mocking his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was raised in a modern Orthodox Jewish family and was working on Middle East peace, 'Jared's more loyal to Israel than the United States,'" Woodward and Costa wrote.
And now, the former White House Press Secretary has also validated the "trope," and even exasperated it by going so far as to compare Kushner to Rasputin.
If you know anything about the history of Rasputin, and the sphere of influence he had over Nicholas II, and particularly his wife Alexandra, then you understand exactly what she is saying about Kushner.
Rasputin was a peasant who had some charismatic qualities (and a big cock) that he used to charm people (mostly women) into thinking he was an enlightened one.
He helped "heal" the couple's son, which ultimately won him approval of Alexandra. She viewed him as mystic, with God-like powers. So she began soliciting the peasant's advice on national issues, and coerced Nicholas II to follow his "visions," which ultimately led to the demise of Nicholas II's reign and the beginning of the Russian revolution.
If you look at what has happened since Biden took office, the comparison of Kushner to Rasputin isn't coincidental, it'll likely prove to be ominously prophetic.
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