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Media Outlet Owned By Jared Kushner Publishes A Story That Has Trump Boiling
After the electoral college voted in Donald Trump’s favor, son-in-law Jared Kushner formally announced that he’d be stepping away from several businesses he was involved with, including working as a publisher for The Observer. Kushner’s brother-in-law, Joseph Meyer, filled the publishing position but Kushner owns the publication.
The publication, The Observer, has always focused on New York-centric stories but has gone through some turmoil because of Kushner pushing a right-wing agenda. The publication has managed to survive hard times and just published a story that Donald Trump, no doubt, will not appreciate.
Right about now it’s likely that Kushner is getting an earful from Trump after the publication ran an op-ed piece by former analyst for the National Security Agency John R. Schindler, entitled: The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins.
According to the piece, the Intelligence Community doesn’t trust the president, nor do they trust Michael Flynn, who was appointed to the National Security Council by Trump himself. Reportedly, the intelligence community distrusts Donald Trump so much that they are actively withholding information from him.
Schindler breaks down the ways in which Donald Trump has weakened both counterterrorism relationship with allies and international security:
‘Now those concerns are causing problems much closer to home—in fact, inside the Beltway itself. Our Intelligence Community is so worried by the unprecedented problems of the Trump administration—not only do senior officials possess troubling ties to the Kremlin, there are nagging questions about basic competence regarding Team Trump—that is beginning to withhold intelligence from a White House which our spies do not trust.’
Schindler mentions the fact that national security advisor Michael Flynn has a long standing relationship with the Russians. Specifically, Flynn was caught calling Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak to notify him of the sanctions Obama was putting on Russia before it happened, for instance. Vice President Mike Pence defended Flynn, despite the fact that the information he was given was later proved inaccurate.
‘It’s debatable whether Flynn broke any laws by conducting unofficial diplomacy with Moscow, then lying about it, and he has now adopted the customary Beltway dodge about the affair, ditching his previous denials in favor of professing he has “no recollection of discussing sanctions,” adding that he “couldn’t be certain that the topic never came up.” That’s not good enough anymore, since the IC knows exactly what Flynn and Kislyak discussed.’‘Our spies have had enough of these shady Russian connections—and they are starting to push back.’
Schindler, a former analyst for the National Security Agency, says that he previously warned that it wouldn’t be wise for the Trump administration to start a war against U.S. spies and explains why:
‘This is a risky situation, particularly since President Trump is prone to creating crises foreign and domestic with his incautious tweets. In the evenT of a serious international crisis of the sort which eventually befalls almost every administration, the White House will need the best intelligence possible to prevent war, possibly even nuclear war. It may not get the information it needs in that hour of crisis, and for that it has nobody to blame but itself.’
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