aides struggled with kushner, they weren t just fighting for power. it was also about different ideologies between jared kushner s and steve bannon s camps. kushner thought that bannon sort of rough-hewed populism was dangerous and bad and bannon thought kushner was a new york democrat. he referred to kushner and ivanka trump as the democrats. there was a battle over the soul of what this white house was going to stand for. that battle became more urgent after the violent protests in charlottesville in august 2017. when trump defended the neo-nazis. very fine people, on both sides. i think jared and ivanka felt that steve bannon was a toxic influence both on donald trump, but also on the country. bannon, meanwhile, blamed kushner for supporting the
he said every big decision was going to come through him. asserting his primacy as main adviser to the president. he was going to be the person at his side. the idea that a 36-year-old real estate executive who had never worked in government would hold such a role was sharply criticized. then president trump handed kushner a full plate of high-level assignments, stunning official washington. he was assigned to find peace in the middle east. to handle relations with china. with mexico. he put on a flack vest over his blue blazer and went to iraq. he set up the office of american innovation, he was going to solve the veterans affairs crisis. he was going to do an infrastructure plan. it became a joke that there was no problem in america that jared kushner was in the going to fix. many in the white house weren t laughing. in the early months of the administration, some senior aides struggled with kushner, they weren t just fighting for
they weren t just fighting for power. it was also about different ideologies between jared kushner s and steve bannon s camps. kushner thought that bannon sort of rough-hewed populism was dangerous and bad and bannon thought kushner was a new york democrat. he referred to kushner and ivanka trump as the democrats. there was a battle over the soul of what this white house was going to stand for. that battle became more urgent after the violent protests in charlottesville in august 2017. when trump defended the neo-nazis. very fine people, on both sides. i think jared and ivanka felt that steve bannon was a toxic influence both on donald trump, but also on the country. bannon, meanwhile, blamed kushner for supporting the president s decision to fire fbi director james comey.