Trump: Jared And Ivanka Might Be Better Off In NY
Jared Kushner’s place in the White House has always been a bit nebulous. Now that his security status has been downgraded and his integrity has been harshly questioned, what’s next. Sources are saying that President Trump has mused that Jared and Ivanka would be better off as private citizens in New York City. The Whiskey Congress podcast (link below) has featured a “deadpool” predicting who will be the next person ousted from the White House. No one has Jared, but his ouster would re-set the game. Is Jared on his way out? Time will tell.
They were the ascendant young couples of the Trump White House: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, and Rob Porter and Hope Hicks. They enjoyed rarefied access to the president and special privileges in the West Wing. Glamorous and well-connected, they had an air of power and invincibility. They even double-dated once.
But an unlikely cascade of events — set in motion by paparazzi photos of Porter and Hicks published Feb. 1 in a British tabloid — crashed down on Kushner this week. The shortest month of the year delivered 28 days of tumult that many inside and outside the White House say could mark the fall of the House of Kushner.
Once the prince of Trump’s Washington, Kushner is now stripped of his access to the nation’s deepest secrets, isolated and badly weakened inside the administration, under scrutiny for his mixing of business and government work and facing the possibility of grave legal peril in the Russia probe.
Kushner’s tensions with chief of staff John F. Kelly have spilled into public view, while other dormant rivalries have resurfaced. Some colleagues privately mock Kushner as a shadow of his former self; one official likened the work of his Office of American Innovation to headlines in “The Onion,” the satirical news website.
Others said fear of the Russia probe has made some officials wary of interacting with Kushner on sensitive matters. And his reputation as an interlocutor for foreign governments has been undermined by the lowering of his security clearance level, which generated embarrassing headlines worldwide.
For President Trump, his son-in-law’s downfall has been difficult to stomach, if not entirely unexpected, aides said. As Trump said a week ago, “Jared’s done an outstanding job. I think he’s been treated very unfairly. He’s a high-quality person.”
