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| Peter Navarro Exposes the China Apologists Inside The Trump Administration |
| 2022-09-07 |
| [EMERALDDB3] It is not like Jared Kushner is hiding what he did. He openly boasts about how he — and a coterie of unregistered foreign lobbyists from Wall Street — effectively scuttled successful trade negotiations with Communist China. In Kushner’s view, the compromise "Phase One" trade deal signed by President Trump with Communist China in January 2020 in the East Wing of the White House was a "massive victory" for America. In fact, this deal — which very quickly and derisively became known as the "Skinny Deal" — was a pale shadow of the one the United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and I had worked so hard on. And, as I sternly warned at that time, even with this Skinny Deal, the Communist Chinese would never meet their obligations — and they never did. The problem that Lighthizer and I always faced in the West Wing trying to take a tough trade position — whether on China or NAFTA or whatever — was the back channeling of both Jared Kushner and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The Kushner-Mnuchin backchanneling was (in part) with their Wall Street handlers like Steve Schwarzman and John Thornton. And with Communist China, both Kushner and Mnuchin would directly contact the Chinese negotiators themselves, often without disclosing their communications in a timely way to Lighthizer, myself, or the other member of the West Wing’s trade team, Wilbur Ross. The practical result of this Kushner-Mnuchin backchanneling was to severely weaken our negotiating positions. This was true whether it was with the Chinese on tariffs, or with the Mexicans or Canadians on NAFTA or steel tariffs. To be clear here, the Trump White House had only one Trade Representative confirmed by the Senate — and only one Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the White House. Trade was our turf, and Lighthizer should have been both the unquestioned czar and quarterback leading the Trump show. Yet Mnuchin and Kushner not only constantly intruded on the trade issue — they both thought they had more authority on this issue than either Lighthizer or myself, as well as Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. |
| Posted by:The Walking Unvaxed |
| #3 Jared as he recovers from cancer surgery |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-09-07 07:02 |
| #2 /\ We may never know, or are destined to never know. Epstein's social network appears to have been removed to the memory hole. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-09-07 04:06 |
| #1 That Kushner, the one Trump just HAD to give a TS/SCI clearance to. Ever wonder if Kushner and Jeffy Epstein were connected? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2022-09-07 02:08 |