Muscle through

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Ophelia Benson

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The Times updated its TodayInTrump piece with the newest bad news: Trump’s horrible son-in-law will be senior adviser to his horrible father-in-law.

It has been expected for weeks. Now, Trump transition officials confirm that Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and a major real estate developer in New York, will be named senior adviser to the president.

The rumored post has focused attention on Mr. Kushner’s myriad potential conflicts of interest, including a Chinese development deal that’s in the works. Then there’s the issue of whether a son-in-law in the West Wing violates antinepotism laws.

But the Trump team will muscle through — as it usually does.

Scum rises.

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3 responses to “Muscle through”

  1. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    The laws don’t apply to Trump – at least, that’s what he says, right?

    And let the looting begin.

  2. Rrr Avatar
    Rrr

    Well, DC was actually built on a swamp, right? So, who better to put up a golden obelisk there?

    PotoMcDonald, place your chips.

  3. latsot Avatar
    latsot

    We humans are congenital experts at deciding what’s normal, regardless of evidence. Allow me to gratuitously quote Douglas Adams:

    The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

    There’s every chance that this kind of thing will become the new normal, just because it has now happened once.

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