Axios reported earlier today that President Trump will be sidelining his son-in-law and trusted adviser Jared Kushner, and he regrets listening to some of his advice, including on the kooky left-wing issue of “police reform.”

President Trump has told people in recent days that he regrets following some of son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner’s political advice — including supporting criminal justice reform — and will stick closer to his own instincts, three people with direct knowledge of the president’s thinking tell Axios.

Behind the scenes: One person who spoke with the president interpreted his thinking this way: “No more of Jared’s woke s***.” Another said Trump has indicated that following Kushner’s advice has harmed him politically. [Axios]

This is a welcome development for Donald Trump’s populist conservative base of supporters. President Trump’s base has grown increasingly agitated as wealthy elites in D.C. fiddle the tune of “police reform” while Antifa and Black Lives Matter cause chaos, violence, anarchy, and looting nationwide.

It is tempting to criticize President Trump indirectly by firing off shots at advisers like Jared Kushner, but this tactic has not made any headway over the last three years. For the past three and a half years, Trump’s advisers and supporters have sniped at each other, all while lavishly heaping praise on President Trump himself. But the fact remains, President Trump has total and complete control over who he listens to, and who he hires and fires.

None of this is meant to excuse Jared Kushner, who, by many accounts, is a terribly out of touch cosmopolitan adviser favoring globalist policies. Some accounts go so far as to call him a moron, but we will reserve judgment.

After a string of broken promises, policy disappointments and sinking poll numbers, the populist wing of the Republican party knows who is to blame. It’s the President’s son-in-law, the prince of the administration, Jared Kushner.

‘Trump has a Jared problem,’ is how one conservative activist who works with the White House on immigration puts it. ‘Jared is a total fuck-up. Everything he touches turns to lead.’ Others groan about ‘four more years of Jared’ should the President be re-elected in November.

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Kushner’s inexperience might be excusable if he were particularly brilliant. People who have sat in meetings with him, however, describe him as ‘slow’, ‘a moron’ and ‘not really that bright’. He struggles to master detail. One official suggests he doesn’t have the acuity to master one, let alone all, of the tasks the President gives him. For instance, he was in charge of producing the 600-plus-page immigration reform package, but conservatives were horrified at how little he knew about the issue he was leading on. He didn’t even seem to know what was in his own proposal; others had to step in when he was unable to answer the more technical questions. [Spectator USA]

President Trump would do well to reassign Jared Kushner and his lackeys. Perhaps they could be sent to Minneapolis to negotiate directly with Black Lives Matter. Perhaps they could be sent to the budding and exciting new New York Autonomous Zone. In any case, it is President Trump making the decisions, not Jared Kushner.

Kushner’s liberal inclinations are increasingly evident in Trump’s leadership, or lack thereof. In the days after George Floyd’s death, as riots broke out in cities across the country, Trump seemed strangely muted. When a mob menaced the White House, he reportedly went into the underground bunker under the East Wing. He tweeted, of course, but he didn’t address the nation or take any bold action.

An administration official said there was an internal debate as to whether the President should deliver a national address before he had solutions to offer. According to various reports, however, Trump was slow to respond because Kushner and two of his staff picks, Brooke Rollins and Ja’Ron Smith, had argued that any harsh critique of the riots might damage the President’s bid to win more black voters. But the delay has angered supporters who want Trump to be the law-and-order president they voted for in 2016. [Spectator USA]

This kind of advice is completely absurd. Black swing voters, and especially black Trump supporters, want to see strong action and leadership from the White House. And so do the rest of the American people. But President Trump should know this, and he should overrule Kushner and his merry band of millennial know-it-alls.

Simply as a matter of mathematics, there are far more white swing voters in this country than there are black voters. And recent polls have demonstratively shown that President Trump’s weak response to riots has led to a fall in support with white voters, not black voters.

Now is not the time for us to lose faith in President Trump, nor is it the time for President Trump to lose heart and fall prey to doubts caused by incompetent advisers like Kushner, Brooke Rollins, and Ja’Ron Smith. Now is the time for President Trump to energize the silent majority with strong action to crush domestic terrorists, protect our heritage, and defend our freedom of speech. This is a culture war, and so far only one side is fighting. President Trump must remember that he was elected to serve as The People’s Champion.

DONALD TRUMP: Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.

The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.

For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interests, they partner with these people that don’t have your good in mind.

The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.

The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China and other countries all around the world.

It’s a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.

The only thing that can stop this corrupt machine is you. The only force strong enough to save our country is us.

The only people brave enough to vote out this corrupt establishment is you, the American people.

I’m doing this for the people and the movement and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.

I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message. [Real Clear Politics]