Jared Kushner Under Fire...or Fired?

On July 22, 2017, Nicholas Kristof from The New York Times published an editorial called Jared Kushner’s Got Too Many Secrets To Keep Ours. In this article, Kristof calls for the Trump son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to be removed as senior advisor to the President. While there is no concrete evidence of Kushner’s wrongdoings, Kristof argues that someone under heavy investigation for possible felonies and collusion from Russia should not be serving as a top official in the White House. Who can trust an official under investigation? Kristof implies that Kushner cannot be so easily cleared through security, especially as someone with access to America’s top confidential information, just because he is a member of the White House family.

Kristof emphasizes the possible felonies that Kushner may have committed- failing to close a meeting on government forms, setting up a secret communications channel with Kremlin, etc. Even some Republicans, specifically Bill Flores, have been calling for not only Kushner and Ivanka’s removal, but also all of President Trump’s other children as well. With Trump persistently standing with Vladimir Putin, suspicions about the President and Russia are growing as well. Kristof finally brings attention to the security risk of keeping Kushner in the White House.

Kristof continually references reports of The Washington Post and once of The Guardian, two reliable sources of news media. As a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and The New York Times columnist for over a decade, Kristof has shown his skill and credibility as a writer. All in all, I agree with Kristof on his suspicions of relations between the President, Kushner, and Russia. With multiple concessions, Kristof has demonstrated that he has considered all points of the subject, and thereafter come to the conclusion: “it’s time for Kushner to find another job.”