So where are the elected asswipes who actually have the power to challenge this bullshit? Too busy laundering money to worry about the Constitution and the rules of Democracy?
GLENN BECK BASHES TRUMP WHITE HOUSE FOR ‘PROFESSIONAL
NEPOTISM’
by
Caitlin Dickson
Yahoo
In light of Jared Kushner’s unexpected arrival in Iraq on Monday, conservative commentator
Glenn Beck expressed concerns about Trump’s son-in-law-turned-senior-adviser’s large role in the White House.
“This is
professional nepotism,” Beck
told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga in a Monday interview.
Kushner’s White
House portfolio has repeatedly expanded and now includes China policy, tax
reform, brokering peace in the Middle East and running a new White House innovation office.
Beck recalled his reaction when former President Bill
Clinton put then-first lady Hillary Clinton in charge of his administration’s task force on universal health
care shortly after his inauguration in 1993.
“I
remember thinking, ‘I don’t know anything about the first
lady. … This
seems like nepotism,’” he
said. “That
wasn’t what
we voted for.”
But now, Beck said, “that looks like kindergarten” compared with the family affair taking place inside the Trump
administration.
It’s not
just Kushner who’s
raising red flags, but also Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who recently confirmed that she too would be
taking a formal role, as an unpaid White House employee.
“It does
bother me, especially as a conservative,” said Beck, adding, “[Trump’s]
daughter is not a conservative.”
“What are
her constitutional underpinnings?” he asked. “Where is
she coming from? Where is Jared coming from?”
Beck questioned the qualifications of both, disputing the idea
promoted by some —
including Trump — that “maybe it’s time we run the country as a
business.”
“No, it’s time we run the country as a
legitimate country,” he
argued. “It’s not a business, it’s a constitutional republic.”
For the Trump administration’s part, White House press secretary Sean Spicer batted down
concerns over Kushner’s
portfolio during his media briefing Monday.
“He has a
team that he oversees,” Spicer
said, attempting to dispel the notion that Kushner might be taking on more than
one man can handle. “There
are lot of areas that he’s been
working very diligently on behalf of the government, on behalf of the president’s agenda.”
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