A former editor at the Observer says Kushner's claim of coronavirus 'success' stems from his inability to empathize with other people's grief

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• An editor who worked for Jared Kushner at the New York Observer described him as lacking empathy and unable to understand grief, in a recent Washington Post op-ed. 
• Elizabeth Spiers recounted an incident where Kushner used the memorial of a staffer to congratulate himself. 
• She drew parallels between Kushner's behavior in that incident and his claims that his coronavirus response team is successful despite being made up of inexperienced volunteers who failed to secure medical supplies for the US. 
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In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Elizabeth Spiers, a former editor at the New York Observer, described Jared Kushner, now a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, as someone unable to emphasize or understand other people's grief. 

"When I knew him, he seemed constitutionally incapable of considering the humanity of other people as a starting point," Spiers wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post, where she described Jared Kushner's comments at a memorial for an employee at the Observer who had died.

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