Democrats and their media cronies hate all things Trump: language in the CARES act specifically denies any federal funds to a Trump business or family member. With 126 million US families, why single out just one? And if it’s deplorable they hate, spank that black-face wearing governor of Virginia. No way – not when son-in-law Jared Kushner can be pilloried.
The press hated on Kushner after he explained JIT (just in time) distribution of ventilators; many accusing him of “hoarding” what New York needed. The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser called his comments “one of the administration’s most callous performances.” Earth to Glasser, because Kushner was actually fixing a problem with what all MBAs know. Wonder if Glasser thinks Amazon and FedEx are callous too?
Glasser assumes Kushner is unqualified and dangerous – like all rich, white, males (especially Trumps). Minimal research reveals Kushner earned a Harvard BA in government and a MBA/JD from NYU…before taking over the family business at 26….purchasing over $7 billion in real estate…and ending with $800 million at 39. If Eisenhower trusted State U grads to lead bomber squadrons in WW II, I think we can trust a Harvard man to operate some warehouses and trucks.
In 2006, Kushner bought the The New York Observer, and by 2016 Vanity Fair reported, “[the] Observer has lost virtually all its cultural currency among New York’s elite, but the paper is now profitable and reporting traffic growth” (adding 4.7 million digital users). That experience begat digital-campaign expertise (Project Alamo) that Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained to Forbes: “he actually ran the campaign and did it with essentially no resources” – stomping the best Democrats had to offer.
If that’s all you had to go on, would you trust Kushner to manage the ventilator supply chain? The President did – after a FEMA briefing predicted a ventilator shortfall of 130,000 by April 1. On April 23, every American knows that didn’t happen, because Kushner’s team confirmed 20,000 ventilators in various federal stockpiles, relied on their own data, and made prudent allocations.
Remember when New York Governor Cuomo clamored for 40,000 ventilators? Trump did not grant his request – saving Michigan and Illinois – because Kushner found governors “guesstimating” their needs. In contrast, his data team used hospital billings to calculate ventilator supply and demand, allowing FEMA to execute JIT delivery. Brilliant: need-based shipments from a large federal stockpile met patient needs AND preserved ventilators for new hotspots.
After Kushner said, “I’m doing my own calculations [and] New York doesn’t need all those ventilators,” The New York Times ran this headline: Jared Kushner Is Going To Get Us All Killed. In fact, a crisis was averted by an MBA – not a cynical reporter – and US factories will produce 200,000 ventilators this year (up from 30,000 last year). This means Joe Biden will inherit a solution. Just once, it would be nice for a reporter to thank a Trump.