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Following the revelations found in Donald Trump Jr.’s e-mails earlier in the week, the media have put greater focus on President Trump’s close-knit family. So late Wednesday night, during CNN Tonight, the network’s Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley went on an angry rant where he railed against the Trumps as a family. And in addition, made baseless accusations about what White House staffers thought about them and their desire to work there.
Brinkley clearly had a bone to pick with the Trump family as he equated them to an Italian organized crime family. “You have a kind of-- like a Mafioso; the family’s in charge only, and we keep it in our clan together,” he chided. “And some people find that honorable, but when it starts damaging the United States at home and abroad.”
In particular, Brinkley’s ire was directed at Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who he claimed had “the bull’s eye” of controversy on him. “I think he's going to at the very least have to have his security clearance revoked. And I think he should step down. I don't believe he's trustworthy anymore,” he asserted. But his tirade against Kushner didn’t end there:
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