Kushner Privately Urges Restraint On Emergency: Don’t ‘Do Things Just To Do Them’

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 7: (L to R) U.S. President Donald Trump talks with White House Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner as they attend a Hanukkah Reception in the East Room of the White House, December... WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 7: (L to R) U.S. President Donald Trump talks with White House Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner as they attend a Hanukkah Reception in the East Room of the White House, December 7, 2017 in Washington, DC. Hanukkah begins on the evening of Tuesday, December 12 this year. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The publicly silent son-in-law to the President is emerging as a voice of restraint within the West Wing when it comes to President Trump’s wall war, The Wall Street Journal reported

According White House officials who spoke to the WSJ, Jared Kushner said in a recent Oval Office meeting that the authority to declare a national emergency shouldn’t be enacted just to “win a messaging war against Democrats opposed to the wall,” in WSJ’s words.

“Let’s stop doing things just to do them,” Kushner said, according to officials familiar with the meeting who spoke to WSJ.

That restraint comes in contrast with President Trump’s most recent remarks about whether he intends to declare a national emergency in order to secure wall funding. During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday evening, Trump said he couldn’t think of a reason why he wouldn’t do it.

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  1. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    Lord help us all, Javanka has actually done a smart.

    40 years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

  2. The tension between the Father and the Son-in-Law. What young man has not had to caution their father-in-law to not declare a national emergency willy nilly?

  3. Yeah, well, 1) who’s feeding us the info that Jarvanka is pleading restraint, 2) why are we being told this, and 3) does Individual-1 a.k.a. Unindicted Co-Conspirator ever listen to Jarvanka? (Except for Comey, which was an unmitigated disaster…)

    No, ultimately it will be gastrointestinal gurglings that will make Spankee jump or not. Or wounded ego (Coulter/Hannity/Graham/Limbaugh all shrieking “jump! jump! jump!”…while Nancy uses her Mommy voice to remind everyone that tantrums are par for the course when you are still wearing training pants.)

  4. What’s the difference between these criteria?

  5. You’re absolutely right, of course: they all produce foul-smelling clouds of noxious gas.

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