{"id":95807,"date":"2019-06-03T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/03\/jared-kushner-refuses-to-say-whether-trumps-birtherism-was-racist-live\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:56:32","slug":"jared-kushner-refuses-to-say-whether-trumps-birtherism-was-racist-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95807","title":{"rendered":"Jared Kushner refuses to say whether Trump&#039;s birtherism was racist \u2013\u00a0live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked about birtherism, Kushner says: \u2018I wasn\u2019t involved in that\u2019President Trump meets Queen on state visit to United KingdomSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.56pm BST Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said yesterday on MSNBC that impeachment proceedings are \u201cabsolutely\u201d inevitable, and rejects the idea that backlash over impeachment could cost Democrats control of Congress in 2020. \u201cI think we risk losing majority if we don\u2019t bring impeachment proceedings. It will be hard pressed for a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives not to go forward with an impeachment operation.\u201d 2.35pm BST Good morning. Let\u2019s start off the week with a masterclass in deflection.For that we turn to first son-in-law and trusted Trump advisor Jared Kushner in an interview with Axios released Sunday. Asked about the president\u2019s racism, Kushner said confidently that Trump was \u201cabsolutely not\u201d a racist, and that Democrats who call the president a racist are doing \u201ca disservice to everyone who suffers from real racism in this country.\u201dJared Kushner deflects when asked if he disapproves of Donald Trump&#8217;s promotion of birtherism, saying he wasn&#8217;t involved with it. @dctvny @hbodocs pic.twitter.com\/D2wINVHLIx Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2019\/jun\/03\/donald-trump-live-latest-updates-today-queen-visit-jared-kushner-2020-news\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Kushner refuses to say whether Trump&#039;s birtherism was racist \u2013\u00a0live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked about birtherism, Kushner says: \u2018I wasn\u2019t involved in that\u2019President Trump meets Queen on state visit to United KingdomSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 2.56pm BST Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said yesterday on MSNBC that impeachment proceedings are \u201cabsolutely\u201d inevitable, and rejects the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}