Eric Trump calls nepotism a factor of life

[struggle4progress]

By Lindsey Bever
April 6 at 9:41 AM

“Nepotism,” Eric Trump recently told Forbes, “is kind of a factor of life” ...

Donald Trump, who has made his pro-nepotism thoughts known, entered the White House nearly three months ago and has since been filling federal and personal-business-empire positions with relatives.

Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. are running the Trump Organization while their father runs the country. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who benefited from his own family's business, serves as a senior adviser in the White House. And his daughter, Ivanka, has officially joined the administration .. with an office in the West Wing ...

“My general concern,” <Robert Jones, a nepotism expert from Missouri State University> said about the Trump children, “is that you're getting a group of people who are ill-prepared to perform a job and are unaware that they're unprepared to perform this job” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/06/eric-trump-calls-nepotism-a-factor-of-life-heres-what-he-may-not-understand-about-privilege/

[HughBeaumont]

1. Well, I'M ten IQ points dumber for having read that.

Someone once remarked that Ivanka is the only reason Trump still has a brand . . . being that Trump's older sons are both dumbasses. Might not be too far off.

[rickford66]

2. The old saying ... He was born rich so he wouldn't starve.

[PoliticAverse]

3. It's certainly a factor in his. n/t