For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,

As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.

—Henry V, Act 2, Scene II

Well, it turns out the princeling is hip deep in it all himself.

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Sources tell us Kushner was a prominent voice advocating Comey's firing & the President's angry that move has created a firestorm @MajorCBS pic.twitter.com/N3IhlTnwM5 — Norah O'Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) May 17, 2017

Once again, as Lord of the Flies unfolds at Camp Runamuck, it's hard to hear clearly over the sound of so many axes being ground. But it's pretty plain that there isn't a sliver of daylight between the president* and his son-in-law when it comes to petty grifting and a vicious instinct for self-preservation.

The idea that he was going to be the moderating influence in this White House always was laughable. If this report is true, and Jared Kushner advised his father-in-law to fire the FBI director because the FBI was rooting around the Kushner precincts of the Great National Grift, therefore setting off the current political firestorm, then he's not competent enough to sit in the high councils of government, either.

He's also put himself in the crosshairs of whatever investigations are coming down the boulevard, which I admit is a vastly entertaining prospect. I've never been so glad that we do not have a hereditary monarchy in this country. Imagine the bloody wars of succession between Junior, Eric, and Jared. The Wars of the Schmoeses.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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