T. Belman. I totally reject the notion that Trump lost because of the ineptitude of Kushner. Kushner broke all kinds of records in the campaign and Trump won massively but lost due to fraud.
Former aide says Trump wanted to replace son-in-law with Steve Bannon as election campaign manager, but didn’t follow through due to ‘family troubles’
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, left, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to former US president Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, June 12, 2017. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP)
Former US president Donald Trump agreed to fire his son-in-law Jared Kushner and replace him with far-right provocateur Steven Bannon, according to a new book written by former Trump aide Peter Navarro, The Guardian reported Saturday.
Navarro cites a June 25, 2020, entry in his own diary which said a meeting took place between Bannon and major campaign donors.
“Bannon and the donors “want[ed] Kushner and Brad Parscale [the campaign manager] out the door,” the entry apparently read.
“Don Jr [and his girlfriend] Kimberly Guilfoyle feel the same way. This could be really interesting. It could also be our last chance for victory,” Navarro wrote.
Bannon successfully managed Trump’s 2016 campaign but left the White House in 2017 amid power struggles.
Bannon, 68, was indicted last week after he misappropriated $15 million donated for the purposes of building a wall between the US and Mexico.
Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro speaks to reporters, June 3, 2022, outside of federal court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)<
In his upcoming book entitled “Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back,” Navarro — who himself is set to stand trial in November after he refused to comply with the January 6 investigations, and faces up to two years in prison — said Bannon remained an influence on Trump even after he left the administration.
Navarro admits that he had “trepidations” about replacing Kushner with Bannon for fear of angering the then-president, but decided to nonetheless support the plan.
Navarro proceeded to set up a meeting between Trump and one of the anti-Kushner donors, where Trump “readily agreed… that Jared had to be replaced with Steve.”
US President Donald Trump, left, listens as Jared Kushner speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, September 11, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/AP)<
Despite Trump’s acceptance of the proposal, Navarro said the plan ultimately failed after Trump refused to deliver the bad news to Kushner himself, citing the family relationship.
The book claims Trump was concerned about “family troubles if [he] himself had to deliver the bad news to … the father of his grandchildren,” instead asking a major party donor, Bernie Marcus, to deliver the news.
When Marcus made the call, Kushner apparently responded that “things were fine with the campaign, there was no way he was stepping down and, in effect, Bernie Marcus and his big moneybags could go pound sand.”
Navarro concluded, “And the rest is a catastrophic strategic failure.”
Less than five months later, Trump lost the US presidential election to Joe Biden.
The Guardian said that Navarro’s book levels significant criticism at the former US president, even dedicating six pages to explaining “why a president who is supposed to be one of the greatest assessors of talent … would make such bad personnel choices across so many White House and cabinet-level positions.”
Navarro, who is considered a Trump loyalist, was clearly far less enamored with Kushner, titling one chapter of his book “Both Nepotism and Excrement Roll Downhill.”
According to the book, Kushner began to lose support among Trump’s aides and confidants after he appeared on Fox News in April 2020 declaring that the pandemic would be over before the summer.
Navarro writes, “In being so wrong…Kushner woke up” big donors who until then believed “Kushner and the Trump campaign would, at some point, get its ship together.”
Kushner also released a book this year, entitled “Breaking History — A White House Memoir,” detailing his experience as a senior adviser to Trump.
Navarro’s book will be published later this month.
Peloni,
You certainly do hit the nails on the head, and I congratulate you on it. English Composition grade for Peloni = A+ 🙂
Concerning your conclusion, I disagree. You left God out of the picture, the one who is actually in charge of these matters. God sees the end from the beginning, and He knew exactly what would happen. If he assigned all the host of heaven to preventing the “Great Steal”, he could not have prevented it without destroying mankind; because it is in the heart of the people to do this and every steal. The only thing that really matters to humanity, is who gets selected to be “The Elite” of the moment, to claw its way up the ladder. The longer this condition has been put under wraps, the more it has and will grow.
Very soon, we will see the condition of the human heart as it really is, in all its ugliness. When we see it, we can deal with it properly. God has a perfect solution for the problem (I know what it is, by the way); but He is waiting for us to ask Him for help; because He loves us. Until that day comes, we will carry on with our “Hope and Change”, “Great Resets” and “Green New Deals” until AFTER we start hurling nukes at one another.
Time to make some popcorn, and watch the show.
@Michael
Truly, had the steal not been permitted to succeed, there would be far less wickedness in high places to actually expose. Among the most significant consequences of the steal was that trillions of dollars were redistributed upwards while crushing the middle class, billions of unsuspecting people were injected with toxic shots which have no safety trigger, millions of people are dead and vaccine injured, Europe is being deindustrialized while the US prosecutes its proxy war against Russia, surgical resection of the genitals of children are becoming normalized while pedophiles are being empowered to sexualize the education of minors, and human trafficking is running wild across the US, and this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the cost of allowing the steal to proceed. As people suggest that there is a plan or that the steal was necessary, I would simply suggest that if there was a plan, this was one lousy plan, so bad that it could only have been planned by the blackhats it was supposedly intended to catch in the act, as it has been pointlessly detrimental to every facet of life as we have known it. Of course, these are just my own views, such as they are.
Hi, Peloni.
Mike Lindell and QAnon have said that had the steal not succeeded, the great exposure of wickedness in high places would not have happened.
@Michael
I think that a great deal would have been revealed to Trump had Flynn’s persecution been ended earlier than it was. Their is a reason why they wanted these two separated, and there was a reason why the obvious overstep against Flynn by the court was continued well past the point of any chance of victory. Like other aspects of Trump’s administration, Flynn would most likely have made a significant difference in how successful the CIA’s domestic coup might be, as he has recently noted, “I know where the bodies are buried”.
Also, the gross mismanagement of the RNC, the state candidates, and POTUS all sharing a common legal team would likely not have been made by someone who was attuned to potential legal misadventures which were likely to be brought against Trump after the election was stolen.
Also, had the path to victory not been so simple for the CIA and their many allies, perhaps they might have thought twice about committing such outright fraud. To rephrase this, the gross incompetence displayed by the amateur hour leadership put in place to lead the defense against the well expected fraud, likely helped strengthen the resolve of the cabal that they would be both victorious in conducting their election theft and untouchable afterwards having done so.
It is true that the CIA are professionals at this sort of thing, but their allies were not. They gained support from national and international NGOs, state and national agencies, foreign nations, and untold numbers of US citizens around the country. If these people knew that they were facing Flynn, Cleta Mitchell and Dave Bossie instead of Kuchner, perhaps some of them would have been less certain of their victory and would have chosen not to join in on the steal. Perhaps too, the steal would have actually failed as it would have taken very little to put into effect the plan to expose the fraud which was discussed between Trump and Flynn on Dec. 18, 2020 when Patrick Byrne and Garrett Ziegler helped arrange this late stage meeting between these two men. Had that meeting taken place sometime before the election, rather than just days before Jan 6, it is very likely that such a plan as to expose the fraud in real time would have been implemented. Or so I believe in any event.
Hi, Peloni.
I just read your Post #1.
This thought occurs to me:
Through Biden’s incompetence, we lost Afghanistan, and American prestige and treasure. Through Kushner’s incompetence, we may have lost the Republic.
I just read your Post #2, and Ted’s response. Ted noted,
Fair point. Even if Kushner had been replaced by Bannon, Navarro, Bossi, Gen. Michael Flynn and all the “good guys” Trump could marshall, this would have been a drop in the bucket compared with the top-to-bottom corruption and other wickedness permeating the US.
The US government was, essentially, overthrown by the CIA gone rogue. They are experts at what they do.
Would Bannon & Cie have prevented/preempted the steal of the elections?
PS 9/11
DC Draino reposted Jack Poso
Recent 28 pages doc show that two 9/11 hijackers tied to SA intel rented a room from an FBI informant in California before the 2001 attacks.
The Dir of the FBI of the time kept this covered up for years.
The Dir. was: Robert Mueller!!!
@Peloni
Great review. I had no idea of the details. I assumed that Kushner’s role didn’t deal with the coming fraud. How much can one man do.
We know so much more of the fraud now than what we knew then. At least I think so. Even so the election team should have done more to contain it.
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Clark, who was with the Trump team, had hired lawyers in GA to litigate for Trump, but they all resigned because they were working for the Sec. of State and they had a conflict of interest. The consequence of this major blunder brought Cleta Mitchell to Trump’s defense in the infamous phone call with Raffensburger, which was later leaked, and for which Mitchell was later fired.
Again per Navarro, the campaign had $70million left after the election (going from memory on the amount but I think that was the figure) but Kushner wouldn’t release the money after the election to support the election investigation as it was to be saved for the 2024 election (discussed on War Room).
Trump then named Bossie to take the lead in the fraud investigation and he caught Covid the next day. Kushner stepped back, focused on the peace deals and the election fraud was handled by Rudy and Powell.
The issue of the donors and the April 20 date is something I don’t recall reading about in the In Trump Time book to be honest. He has referenced it on the War Room of course but that was small potatoes to be honest.
I don’t believe any of these issues which Navarro raised with the election is discussed or refuted in Kushner’s book. I think he only mentions Navarro a half dozen times and I don’t recall Bossie being mentioned at all. He does, however, explain the Project Air Bridge, spending a full chapter on it, contradicting Navarro on a few key points. Why did he not address any of these other matters?
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Ted
In Navarro’s previous book, “In Trump Time”, he chronicled the last year of the Trump White House. He attributes a great deal of damage to Kushner such as (with the help from NSA deputy Pottinger) pushing Birx to convince Trump to lock down the country, purchasing protective gear from China rather than US companies in a no bid contract while Navarro was contracting American firms for the PPE (Project Airbridge), but most of all failing to secure the elections.
Everyone knew the fraud was imminent. The warnings came from so many people both from inside and outside of the White House. Navarro named a several who called attention to this fact, including Dave Bossie, Corey Lewandowski and Cleta Mitchell. Key among these was Bossie who was involved in the Bush v Gore challenge. He warned them that they were not ready, and Kushner assured them they were. Bossie responded again that he had been thru this before and that they were not prepared for what was coming. Kushner then made the famous “we’ve got this” statement and assured Bossie that they had more lawyers then they could use. Bossie never believed them and made no doubt of his belief.
Cleta Mitchell, an election law specialist and partner at the the Foley and Lardner firm, warned both the Trump team and the RNC that the Dems were going to steal the election in 2019. She met with Brad Parsdale to inform him that they could use donor money to build a fund which could be used to counter the coming election fraud, to which she was told her idea was illegal – she was the election law lawyer and Parsdale was a software specialist.
Mitchell notified Justin Clark and Mark Meadows in the White House and warned them two months before the election to advise them how to respond and they did nothing. Later when she quizzed Meadows on why they never moved forward with her advice, he stated that they just didn’t.
Navarro also relates that Kushner and Clark and Sapien ran the election campaign and were supposedly handling the issue of fraud, claiming that they had thousands of lawyers ready in every state. As we saw they had no lawyers anywhere, certainly not in the states where they were needed.
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