A former top aide to Harry Reid took a parting shot at fellow Democrat and White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett on Thursday, questioning exactly what she has been doing for the last eight years.
James Manley, a former spokesman to the former Democratic Senate leader from Nevada, tweeted that the public and those in Congress still don’t understand what Jarrett contributed to the Obama administration during her years of employment by the president.
“This is just freaking embarrassing-,” Manley tweeted about financier Anthony Scaramucci being hired by President-elect Trump. “But then again no one could ever figure out what Valerie jarret did besides demand a ss agent and a car.”
Jarrett has served as assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs. She previously worked as a lawyer and civic leader in Chicago, where she first teamed up with Obama. She is known to be close to the first family.
Jarrett has had Secret Service protection throughout her service, something fellow White House aides reportedly didn’t understand.
“While a high-profile White House official — especially an African-American woman, such as Jarrett — could legitimately be considered a more likely target than most, several West Wing officials I spoke to were dubious there had been any special threats against her,” author Mark Leibovich wrote in the book “This Town.”
“They suspected, rather, that Jarrett asked the president to authorize a detail out of ‘earpiece envy,'” Leibovich wrote.
Manley is now a senior director at QGA Public Affairs in Washington.
