Trump Turns to Jared

Maureen Dowd: “At the Thursday briefing, the president brought out another wealthy, uninformed man-child who loves to play boss: Jared Kushner. Where’s our Mideast peace deal, dude? Surely Trump did not think giving Kushner a lead role would inspire confidence. This is the very same adviser who told his father-in-law early on that the virus was being overplayed by the press and also urged him to tout a Google website guiding people to testing sites that turned out to be, um, still under construction.”

“Now he is leading a group, mocked within the government as ‘the Slim Suit crowd,’ that is providing one more layer of confusion — and inane consultant argot — to the laggardly, disorganized response.”