REPORT: Jared Kushner’s ‘princely arrogance’ set back the coronavirus response by weeks. "Jared is running everything"

President Donald Trump’s obsession with settling scores in the wake of his impeachment and the “princely arrogance” of his son-in-law Jared Kushner delayed the response from the White House in the critical early days of the coronavirus outbreak, numerous Republicans and administration officials said.

“Jared kept saying the stock market would go down, and Trump wouldn’t get re-elected."

And as the outbreak grew, so did Kushner’s influence.

“Jared is running everything,” one former White House official told Sherman. “He’s the de facto president of the United States.”

They described Kushner’s “princely arrogance” as a “fixture in the West Wing." Kushner had a “famously unshakable belief in his own judgment” but “hardened to a degree that was sometimes shocking.”

“I told Jared that if Trump won a second term, he wouldn’t have to worry about running again. And you can really help people. Jared just looked at me and said, ‘I don’t care about any of that,'” a New York business executive who met with Kushner at the White House last fall said “I wanted to tell Jared, ‘You don’t say that part out loud — even in private.'”

Fox News host Tucker Carlson drove to Mar-a-Lago to warn the president to take the threat seriously during this time. Kushner pushed back, urging Trump not to declare a national emergency because it “would tank the markets."



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