By By Matthew Dessem

June 03, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -   The second season of Axios premiered on HBO Sunday night, and it kicked off with an interview with Senior Advisor to the President of the United States Jared Kushner. It was, to borrow a phrase from a senior advisor to the president of the United States, “a clown show.” Axios reporter Jonathan Swan pushed back at some of Kushner’s more ridiculous statements, and in response, Kushner fell flat on his face so quickly he appeared to be suffering from some sort of localized anomaly in Earth’s gravitational field. It turns out that the president’s son-in-law has been reticent with the press for reasons that become painfully clear as the interview progresses: He doesn’t know anything, and he believes even less. Here are three of his most spectacular face-plants.

On Abortion

Kushner first ran into trouble when Swan pushed him on Donald Trump’s extremely late-in-life conversion to the anti-abortion movement. To naïve observers, it might seem like political operatives should work to achieve political goals they believe in, but as Kushner explained, there’s nothing unseemly about “enforcing” policies that hurt other people, even if you don’t support those policies yourself:

Kushner: I think [Trump] respects people who are willing to be honest with him. When I do disagree, you’ll never read about it in the press, and I wouldn’t say it publicly. But I will say there’s a lot more things I agree with him on than disagree.

Swan: So you agree with him on economics, on foreign policy. Where do you stand on abortion?

Kushner: Again, I was not the person who was elected.

Swan: So you agree with the president’s position?

Kushner: I’m here to enforce his positions. His position is the one that as a staffer in the White House, we’ll work to push.

So if you don’t like Jared Kushner’s current work “enforcing” his father-in-law’s anti-abortion positions, don’t hold it against Jared Kushner—he doesn’t really believe in any of it. Maybe he can work for a pro-choice administration next and undo some of the damage!