Kushner encouraged Trump to push back against New York governor Andrew Cuomo...[when] he said New Yo
Kushner encouraged Trump to push back against New York governor Andrew Cuomo...[when] he said New York was short 30,000 ventilators. This was a total mess, Kushner told people when he got involved last month. I know how to make this government run now.
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The Campaign Panicked: Inside Trumps Decision to Back Off of His Easter Coronavirus Miracle
An impulsive promise (His view was: I need to show people theres a light at the end of the tunnel) led to Fauci pushback. Poll numbersand a friend in a comapushed Trump to reverse course.
By Gabriel Sherman
April 1, 2020
The Campaign Panicked Inside Trumps Decision to Back Off of His Easter Coronavirus Miracle
By Win McNamee/Getty Images.
The national debate set off by Donald Trumps announcement that he wanted churches packed on Easter was, like so many Trump crises, a self-inflicted one. In the days after Trump tweeted that WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF, his medical advisers, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, implored Trump not to relax the governments social distancing guidelines. Trump dug in. His view was: I need to show people that there is light at the end of the tunnel, a former West Wing official told me. Under pressure, members of the coronavirus task force discussed privately how parts of the country might be opened in April, but cautioned Trump not to get locked into a specific timetable given the deteriorating conditions in New York hospitals and ominous upticks in cases in New Orleans, Detroit, and elsewhere. They discussed it internally, but they never intended Trump to announce it, a Republican working with the task force told me.
Trumps impulsive decisionand its messy aftermathconsumed the West Wing during the critical week that governors were pleading with the White House to deliver medical supplies before hospital systems began to collapse. It was totally crazy, the Republican told me. Dr. Fauci, Senator Lindsey Graham, and others raced to convince Trump that an Easter opening would be a cataclysmic error that could cost millions of lives. This is a very, very stressful situation for everybody, including me, Fauci told me in a phone interview on Monday. By last weekend Faucis arguments broke through: Trump agreed to extend the social distancing guidelines until the end of April.
Trumps latest tonal and tactical shift (and almost certainly not the last) was driven by several factors, both personal and political. Trump learned that his close friend, 78-year-old New York real estate mogul Stan Chera, had contracted COVID-19 and fallen into a coma at NewYork-Presbyterian. Boy, did that hit home. Stan is like one of his best friends, said prominent New York Trump donor Bill White. Trump also grew concerned as the virus spread to Trump country. The polling sucked. The campaign panicked about the numbers in red states. They dont expect to win states that are getting blown to pieces with coronavirus, a former West Wing official told me. From the beginning of the crisis, Trump had struggled to see it as anything other than a political problem, subject to his usual arsenal of tweets and attacks and bombast. But he ultimately realized that as bad as the stock market was, getting coronavirus wrong would end his presidency. The campaign doesnt matter anymore, he recently told a friend, what I do now will determine if I get reelected..........................
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)written about just how much damage this spoiled twit (Kushner) has done to our nation.
randr
(12,411 posts)Who does he think he is anyway?
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)NOTHING I have seen in the results he has 'produced' say anything but overly entitled moron to me. He is an imbecile of the highest order and sticking his dick into Trump's favorite child should not make him more entitled to anything other than STD patient screening line.
I would bet on a catatonic squirrel to beat him in any kind of mental challenge.
Brutal and oh so true.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)Thank you
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)and gave everything from Netanyahu's wishlist to Israel. Palestinians pretty much immediately said that it was a step backwards and that there was currently no honest broker to work with towards a permanent peace...
Like everything else in his miserable failure of a life, he fucking failed, utterly. Without backdoor deals and dirty money to fund him, Jared would be some drug dealer's prison wife long ago...if there is any justice left in the world, THAT is still his future.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Nothing peaceful about him
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)sop
(10,165 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)is all that matters.
so he's trying to prepare us to consider 200,000 dead as a victory by trump. fat chance.
Grasswire2
(13,568 posts)la-trucker
(283 posts)version of Baghdad Bob
tanyev
(42,552 posts)sounds like no combination of words that has ever emerged from Trumps blather hole.