{"id":1071987,"date":"2021-12-01T10:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1071987"},"modified":"2021-12-01T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:14:26","slug":"5-fun-facts-about-failed-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-fun-facts-about-failed-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Fun Facts About Failed National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-fun-facts-about-failed-national-security-adviser-jake-sullivan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1071987&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who still has a job despite <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/jake-sullivan-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presiding<\/a>&nbsp;over one of the most humiliating national security disasters in history, was the subject of a <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/30\/us\/politics\/jake-sullivan-biden.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile<\/a> published Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> described Sullivan, 45, as a &#8220;figure of fascination in recent months, something between sympathy and schadenfreude.&#8221;&nbsp;The profile included a number of previously unknown facts about the&nbsp;impeccably credentialed foreign policy wunderkind, the funnest of which are detailed below for your enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) He leads a dangerously unhealthy lifestyle.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times<\/em> reports that Sullivan &#8220;operated on an average of two hours of sleep a night for the duration of the three-week crisis in Afghanistan in August,&#8221; would &#8220;mull over each long day during late-night walks home from the White House,&#8221; and &#8220;often continue his meditations at home on a rowing machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not cool, bro. In fact, Sullivan&#8217;s refusal to take care of himself could pose a threat to national security. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/healthysleep.med.harvard.edu\/healthy\/matters\/consequences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experts<\/a> at Harvard, lack of sleep &#8220;exacts a toll on perception and judgment&#8221; and leads to &#8220;reduced efficiency and productivity, errors, and accidents&#8221; in the workplace. No wonder the Afghanistan withdrawal was such a disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep deprivation takes a physical toll as well. For example, it can make a 45-year-old wunderkind look older than Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1543269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234732726.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234732726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234732726-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234732726-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234732726-736x500.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1234732726-722x491.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>2) He&#8217;s a curling&nbsp;aficionado.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sullivan is a &#8220;lean former marathon runner&#8221; who &#8220;has been known to dabble in eclectic hobbies.&#8221; This is one of them. In addition to his unhealthy sleeping habits, it might explain why he always looks like a corpse that has been hastily dethawed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1543266\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1354321509.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1354321509.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1354321509-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1354321509-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1354321509-736x491.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>3) He&#8217;s a&nbsp;competitive speed walker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What a dork.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1543263\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1332575210.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1332575210.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1332575210-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1332575210-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1332575210-736x470.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>4) Everyone <em>still<\/em> thinks he&#8217;s a f\u2014ing genius<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrats continue to think highly of the failed bureaucrat hailed as a &#8220;once-in-a-generation intellect&#8221; by his current boss, and &#8220;a potential future president&#8221; by his former boss, Hillary Clinton. &#8220;Colleagues&#8221; describe him as &#8220;ambitious and intense, but not in the obnoxious manner of a Washington type,&#8221; which is exactly how an obnoxious Washington type would describe another (more successful) obnoxious Washington type on background to the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In all his wisdom, Sullivan was one of the only Washington insiders who was &#8220;not surprised&#8221; by Clinton&#8217;s humiliating defeat to Donald Trump in the 2016 election, but is somehow really bad at doing his job. In case you didn&#8217;t already know, Sullivan went to Yale, then Oxford, then back to Yale for law school. He&#8217;s worked his ass off to accumulate an unparalleled r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of failure and national embarrassment. Some people are just born to be in it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1543272\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1543272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235742411.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1235742411.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1235742411-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1235742411-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1235742411-736x513.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1235742411-704x491.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>5) His old boss Hillary Clinton has plenty of free time for interviews and still loves to name-drop her famous elderly friends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve told this to Henry Kissinger,&#8221; Clinton chortled in an interview with the <em>Times<\/em>. &#8220;In a world of social media and billions of cellphones, he could never have snuck off to China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clinton and Sullivan. You couldn&#8217;t name a more iconic duo in the category of overhyped political failures. Hell, even <em>she<\/em> looks younger than him. For the love of God, get some sleep!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1543275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/getty1.jpeg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/getty1.jpeg 976w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/getty1-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/getty1-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/getty1-736x489.jpeg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who still has a job despite presiding\u00a0over one of the most humiliating national security disasters in history, was the subject of a New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}