Padraig Martin (@PadraigMartin)

The Kushner Plan It turns out that the infuriating Gaza announcement by Trump was actually written by Jared Kushner - who secretly returned to the White House as one of Trump's senior advisors. His deep unpopularity among Trump's rightwing supporters is the reason he was kept a secret. Apparently, Kushner is behind the scenes suggesting that Trump not focus on deporting illegal aliens to support Americans, but should focus on deporting Gaza Palestinians to support Israelis. Correspondingly, deportations have slowed to a crawl, whereby Vince James pointed out that we are now on pace to deport about 100,000 of the estimated 26 million illegal aliens. The Kushner Gaza Plan even (happily) surprised the Israelis - who had no idea it was coming. The same advisor who told Trump not to target BLM in the first Administration... the same advisor who told Trump not to target antifa... the same advisor who told Trump to support Israel unconditionally... the same advisor who converted Trump's daughter to Judaism - is back - quieter and more powerful than before.