Jared Kushner’s “early involvement with dealing with the virus was in advising the president that the media’s coverage exaggerated the threat,” the New York Times reports.
Also interesting: “It explains how Mr. Trump could announce he was dismissing his acting chief of staff as the crisis grew more severe, creating even less clarity in an already fractured chain of command. And it was a major factor in the president’s reluctance to even acknowledge a looming crisis, for fear of rattling the financial markets that serve as his political weather vane.”
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