Jared Kushner's Embarrassing Comments Scrubbed From Transcript

Jared Kushner puts the fail in failson. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. To get even more TYT in your life, go to and download our free app!

"Speaking at the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Jared Kushner made a passing reference to Monday’s carnage in the Gaza Strip, where at least 52 Palestinian protesters were shot and killed by Israeli security forces in the worst violence there in almost four years.

“As we have seen from the protests of the last month and even today, those provoking violence are part of the problem and not part of the solution,” Kushner said.

The notion that Israeli forces were blameless in the ongoing violence, even as their role has been been condemned by human-rights groups and several governments over the last several weeks, is consistent with a White House that backs Benjamin Netanyahu’s heavy-handed tactics at every turn. Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah said on Monday that the deaths amounted to a “propaganda attempt” by Hamas, the militant organization that controls Gaza.

Still, Kushner’s remark was sufficiently callous that it was excised from the official White House transcript.”*

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