On MSNBC Saturday, Intercept reporter Mehdi Hasan slammed President Donald Trump for mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic \u2014 and particularly for putting his son-in-law Jared Kushner at the forefront of the effort.
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\n\u201cI think it\u2019s very unified leadership. They\u2019re all unified in their ignorance and their denialism and their callousness,\u201d said Hasan, speaking with host Ali Velshi. \u201cThey all have the same approach, which is just to play it down, which is to pretend things are getting better, which is to turn this into a partisan political crisis where states like Florida that voted for Donald Trump get resources and states that didn\u2019t vote for him like New York or Colorado or Maine don\u2019t get the same level of resources.\u201d
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\n\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing right now, real time, is a kakistocracy,\u201d continued Hasan. \u201cGovernment by the worst people. Kakistocrats. Led from the top by Donald J. Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. On what planet is Jared Kushner put in charge of the White House\u2019s response to the coronavirus? This is a man who\u2019s failed at everything he\u2019s touched \u2026 he\u2019s failed to run a New York newspaper, he\u2019s failed in the property business his criminal father gifted to him, failed at trying to bring peace to the Middle East. And now failing at trying to handle this major public health crisis which he\u2019s not qualified to handle.\u201d
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\n\u201cYou mentioned the quote from him and Donald Trump saying, these are our ventilators, this is the federal government\u2019s stockpile, this is for ourselves,\u201d added Hasan. \u201cWho are the ours? Who are the ourselves? If the federal government doesn\u2019t stand up for the 50 states of the United States, who does it stand up for? It\u2019s bizarre, the level of incompetence, the indifference \u2014 it\u2019s completely crazy!\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Text quoted below sent to Senators Todd Young and Mike Braun of Indiana, and to Rep. Trey Hollingsworth, IN-09. From RawStory.com, Jared Kushner gets the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,3,98,92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}