Jared Kushner selfishly betrayed Donald Trump when it came to James Comey’s firing
Back when Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey and then admitted he’d done so to try to make the Russia investigation go away, there were scattered reports that Jared Kushner had been the driving force in talking him into it. I wrote at the time that Kushner was destroying Trump by giving him absurdly bad advice, and I wondered aloud why he was doing so. But now more recent revelations point to Kushner’s true motivation.
The first half of the answer came when it was revealed this past week that the FBI is investigating Jared Kushner for his role in the Russia scandal. It’s still not clear whether Kushner knew the FBI was onto him at the time. But it is clear in hindsight that Kushner was aware of his own actions in the scandal, and had to have known the FBI would be onto him eventually.
So it’s easy to figure out that Kushner pushed Trump into firing Comey in the hope of protecting himself. But the second half of the answer is arguably more revealing. That comes in the form of a new article from the New York Times which asserts from inside sources that Kushner convinced Trump that Democrats would be just fine with Comey’s firing (link), and that Trump would come out ahead politically for pulling the trigger.
Kushner is a Democrat. His friends are Democrats. He knew full well that Donald Trump firing James Comey would only serve to enrage Democrats and anti-Trump people, because no matter what they thought of Comey, they were holding out hope that Comey could take down Trump. So now we know that Kushner purposely gave terrible advice to Trump, which has ended up severely harming Trump’s own chances of surviving this politically, simply because Kushner calculated that Comey’s demise would increase his own odds of avoiding being dragged into the scandal. But karma being karma, Kushner severely miscalculated, and he may have triggered the downfall of both his father-in-law and himself. If you’re a regular reader, feel free to support Palmer Report
