Saturday, January 21, 2017
Donny gets his Wormtongue
After the appropriate hemming and hawing lawyers from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel have said it is OK for the Tangerine Shitgibbon to hire his son-in-law despite his nearly complete lack of qualifications for what Tangerine has in mind.
In a 14-page opinion issued by the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, government lawyers said that the president’s special hiring authority exempted White House positions from federal laws barring the president from appointing relatives to lead a federal agency. The White House, the department said, is not technically an “executive agency.”Other than being jewish, Kushner has nothing to recommend him in the Middle East, unless they plan to build a Trump resortin any country than promises to make nice.
The opinion was issued a day after Mr. Trump was sworn into office.
Some legal experts had raised concerns that Mr. Kushner’s appointment violated a 1967 law that was intended to curtail nepotism in the federal government. Six years earlier, President John F. Kennedy had appointed his brother Robert as attorney general.
The decision issued on Saturday paves the way for Mr. Kushner, 35, to have nearly unfettered access to Mr. Trump in the Oval Office. Mr. Kushner is Mr. Trump’s closest adviser and was a figure of stability throughout the campaign and the transition.
Mr. Trump announced on Jan. 9 that he would appoint Mr. Kushner to the post and that Mr. Kushner would not accept a salary. His portfolio is expected to include the Middle East and Israel, government partnerships with the private sector and matters involving free trade.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump lavished praise on Mr. Kushner at a candlelight dinner for donors at Union Station in Washington.
“If you can’t produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can,” Mr. Trump said.
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