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Jared Kushner
Here we are a little more than a year into the Trump presidency and his administration's body count is already, as The Donald might put it, "
unbelievable, perhaps record-setting."
Among the
casualties are Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson; my former boss at Goldman Sachs, economic policy chief Gary Cohn; national security adviser Michael Flynn; FBI Director James Comey; White House press secretary and communications director Sean Spicer; four other communications directors including Hope Hicks who, having been
Ivanka Trump's confidante, was elevated to the status of the president's "
real daughter" before her own White House exit; chief strategist Steve Bannon; chief of staff Reince Priebus; a bunch of other instant relics of Trumpian political history, and a partridge in a pear tree. (Actually, a
200-year-old magnolia uprooted from the White House grounds thanks to the first lady.)
Responding to Hope Hicks' departure and, perhaps subliminally, the rumored future exile of son-in-law Jared Kushner, the president typically
half-lamented and half-quipped, "So many people have been leaving the White House. It's invigorating, since you want turnover. I like chaos. It really is good. Who's going to be the next to leave? Steve Miller or Melania?"
Comment: Trump meeting Putin to discuss arms (and a host of other issues one hopes!) is what should be done in a sane and normal world where leaders try and work out their differences. The problem is that we don't live in a sane and normal world and the government of the US in particular will simply not allow whatever reasonable agreements Trump and Putin come up with to stand. Rather, the US Deep Sate will sabotage any such agreements in any and all manners they can, no matter how obvious or egregious the method.
Such is the intent of those who would lead the world to war in the interest of dominating other nations.