We have been ruthless in our criticism of Kushner. We noted that Kushner was (and still is) the one who had blood on his hands, early in the administration.

But in Michael Wolff’s new book Landslide, Kushner comes out sounding almost “heroic” in his efforts to put administrative layers between Trump’s impulsiveness and carrying out orders as actual policy. Jared believed it was his duty to make things “less bad,” and that’s why he took the White House job.

It is possible that Kushner did slow walk orders, more likely than not, but the self-sanctity in the details whiffs of a “source” telling Wolffe his “side” of things. Knowing that history will just crush anyone who furthered anything in this administration, Jared wants to be on the side of the righteous, almost trying to stop Trump.

“The four-year history of the Trump White House was, in one sense, the unlikely story of the rise and strange effectiveness of Jared Kushner. Much of the West Wing and campaign staffs were made up of people whom Jared had picked. Their common characteristic was that, while they were tolerant of Trump, they could be counted on to slow-walk his worst excesses; some, like Herschmann, acting for Kushner, even often sought to put a brake on them. Kushner, both for temperamental and strategic reasons, would not, in almost any circumstance, directly confront his father-in-law.”

We will buy some of that, but please, Jared. How stupid do you think the average reader is?

To some extent, everyone who worked in the Trump White House, at one point in time or the other, described themselves as being in a somewhat similar role. How often have we heard this justification now? “I needed to help stop him!”

“Everything that happened in the Trump White House was a product of the president’s fevered impulses: a combination of resentments, dramatic flair, score settling, lack of knowledge or understanding, and a sense of what moved his audience.

“But this was filtered through a management system Jared had created to lower the immediate temperature precisely to the point where the president would not notice and Jared would not be blamed. One of Kushner’s own consistent justifications for his role, and one of his stated reasons for being in his father-in-law’s White House, was that he made things less bad than they would otherwise have been.

Yeah. Hi, Jared! That sounds straight from the little sh*ts mouth, even if he actually did see himself as just that and even if, in some perverse way, he ended up functioning as such. The point is, nearly any educated, competent, adult – thrust into a position to watch over an infantilized presidency, would do the exact thing. “Try to hold on.”

All that sounds well and good, so someone now needs to explain what the fck Jared was doing working so hard to get Trump reelected. If his job was to make things “less bad,” then isn’t losing the election less bad? We believe that some of this could easily be true. But, sorry, we’re not falling for this “Jared as wise, selfless, civic servant making things less bad” stuff.

Nope. Sorry, son. You are now trying to write your own history as one of Wolff’s sources, you little… cool story, though, bro. How much money did you make while in the White House?

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