The White House

Why Did The GOP Allow The White House To Become Trump’s Enterprise?

Why are Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on this country’s payroll

Ezinne Ukoha
8 min readDec 10, 2018

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Earlier in 2018, it was reported that Jared Kushner and embattled Chief of Staff, John Kelly, were embroiled in a battle of wills, that had boiled over into a crisis that the president had to curtail with the public endorsement of Kelly’s fight to do the job he was hired to perform.

The issue was the fact that Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, who also happens to be the president’s favorite daughter, were both operating under special circumstances as unqualified “senior advisers,” who were dangerously lacking the security clearance that allows the level of access they were courting.

The outrageousness of the Trump presidency stems from the gross negligence of the GOP, and how unlimited power that remains unchallenged or even threatened, continues to permeate the halls of the White House without any consideration for the way the disease is infecting wearied citizens, and the establishments that are suffocating any hope of recovery.

It’s absolutely criminal that Donald Trump was legally able to award ranking positions in his administration to his his son-in-law and daughter, despite their inexperience, based on less than ideal resumes, that don’t…

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