Opinion: Nepotism rules exist for a reason. Jared Kushner shows why.
By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 1 at 3:07 PM The Post reports:
Kushner’s lawyer, Ivanka Trump and President Trump all falsely stated that he got no special treatment. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in December 2018. This raises two main questions: Why didn’t the intelligence professionals want to give him a security clearance? Second, how bad is this?
Democrats have called on the White House to revoke security clearances granted to Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, and Ivanka Trump over reports of their use of personal email accounts and Kushner's multiple updates to his security clearance questionnaire, known as SF-86, for failing initially to include meeting with foreign officials.
Congress needs to find out whether these revisions has to do with Kushner’s contacts with Russians and/or with the investigation of those contacts in the special counsel probe. In a larger sense, this all goes back to the original sin: hiring an utterly unqualified son-in-law and assigning him an enormous range of critical issues. Nepotism rules are there for a reason. They protect the people from the self-serving and dangerous practice of putting incompetent relatives in government. Kushner shows why incompetent relatives are worse than incompetent non-relatives: It’s really hard to fire relatives.
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