Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was pegged early on to lead the White House’s response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s currently wreaking havoc across our nation. And frankly, the manner in which he’s handled this ordeal has raised a lot of eyebrows.
Despite multiple reports and evidence otherwise, Kushner continues to behave as though his COVID-19 response is going swimmingly, acting as though his efforts have been some sort of huge success.
And thanks to a new op-ed in the Washington Post we may have a good idea as to why.
Elizabeth Spiers, who formerly worked as an editor at the New York Observer with Kushner, penned the op-ed and explained that, from her experience, Kushner’s self-approving attitude surrounding his coronavirus response stems from a total lack of empathy and inability to under the grief of others.
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“When I knew him, he seemed constitutionally incapable of considering the humanity of other people as a starting point,” Spiers wrote, recollecting the comments made by Kushner during a memorial for an Observer employee who had passed away.
Spiers recalled Jared launching into a “supercilious monologue crediting himself with finally getting the paper published on time after what he described as chaos when he arrived” when he was asked to say a few words at Tyler Rush’s memorial service.
She used this event as an example of Kushner’s attempts to always paint himself as a success, no matter the circumstances, amid his bungled response to the deadly virus.
“After bungling many high-profile efforts to address various problems and often making them worse (see, Middle East, peace in), he keeps being handed more responsibilities with higher stakes. He has wasted taxpayer resources and endangered lives trying on policy roles usually reserved for the country’s top experts with the sophistication of a child playing dress-up, cavalierly discarding them when he can’t fit into them,” Spiers stated of Jared’s current role in the presidential administration.
But to the former Kushner employee, his behavior isn’t surprising, after her former boss used a memorial service to brag and boast on himself.
“He could not register the grief of the people in the room that day for the same reason that he apparently can’t register the grief millions of Americans are experiencing now as their lives are upended by COVID-19 and people they love become sick and die,” she writes.
She went on to note that the senior advisor is able to lie in front of cameras and often uses his position to “trade favors” while blaming everyone else for problems that were a direct result of his “mismanagement.”
“This failure of empathy permeated everything he did,” Spiers states.
Honestly, it’s no wonder he fits right into the Trump family.
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