Tag Archives: Jared Kushner

The Washington Post reports: A senior Democrat on Tuesday renewed a request to Jared Kushner for documents outlining how the former White House official received $2 billion from a Saudi investment fund, writing that Kushner had failed to respond to an earlier inquiry and raising new questions about whether he had “improperly traded” on his government work to benefit his …

Raw Story reports: ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked Republican House Oversight Chair James Comer (KY) if he would investigate Saudi funds provided to former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. “It’s clear that you’re going to be looking at Hunter Biden,” the host said. “I want to put up a front-page story from the Washington Post detailing Jared Kushner’s ties …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top White House adviser, Jared Kushner, described to author Chris Whipple his aggressive confrontations with then-President Trump following his loss in the 2020 election and subsequent allegations of voter fraud. Whipple’s new book, out this week, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, includes a section in which Kushner …

The New York Post reports: Per New York magazine, since the 76-year-old Trump’s Nov. 22 dinner with anti-semitic rapper Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago became public, Kushner has ignored requests for “help … for public support, even looking for a response” from his father-in-law’s nascent election operation. Meanwhile, the report added, the 41-year-old Kushner has taken …

Fox Sports reports: Elon Musk, the Tesla and Twitter CEO, appeared in Qatar on Sunday just ahead of the World Cup final before Argentina and France. Qatari TV broadcaster beIN Sports caught Musk entering Lusail Stadium to see whether Lionel Messi will be able to wrap up his first World Cup title or Kylian Mbappe capture his second World Cup …

The New York Post reports: “Jarvanka” seem to want no part of Trump 2024. Former President Donald Trump spent part of daughter Tiffany’s lavish Mar-a-Lago wedding this past weekend trying to convince his much-loved elder daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared Kushner to be with him on stage when he announces his third consecutive run for the presidency at the Palm …

Forbes reports: “Breaking History: A White House Memoir” hit book shelves on Aug. 23. Two weeks later, the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which raises money for two Trump PACs, paid retailer Books-A-Million $131,000 for “collateral:books,” according to a campaign filing made Saturday with the Federal Election Commission. On Sept. 11, four days after that bulk purchase, Kushner’s book appeared …

The Independent reports: According to an early copy of New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new book obtained by CNN, the then-president was seconds away from firing off a tweet that would’ve alerted his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, that they were no longer employed in the White House. Both Ivanka and Kushner were working as senior …

Mediaite reports: Former Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner criticized Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) over sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard last week. “I personally watch what’s happening and it’s very hard to see at the Southern Border,” said Kushner on Outnumbered on Fox News. “We have to remember these are human beings, they’re people, so seeing them being used as …

The Guardian reports: In June 2020, less than five months before polling day, Donald Trump agreed to a “coup d’état” to remove his son-in-law Jared Kushner from control of his presidential re-election campaign and replace him with the far-right provocateur Steve Bannon. The coup had support from Donald Trump Jr but according to a new book by the former Trump …

Mediaite has the transcript: I think if you look at Steve – Steve was actually with us very early. He was great on the campaign. He was a great partner when it got to the White House. I think maybe the power got to his head a little bit or he just – it was being more of what he …

Mediaite reports: Jared Kushner’s own mother asked him if he was colluding with Russia, the former White House official revealed to Newsmax on Friday. “She’s reading articles online. Chuck Schumer and my parents, you know they used to be friends and we were Democrats and he’s going around the Upper East Side telling everybody that I’m going to be indicted. …

“For the last year, the one thing I’ve tried to put a priority on since leaving the White House is to getting some exercise in. “My generation is, hopefully with the advances in science, the first generation that’s going to live forever or the last generation that’s going to die. “So we need to keep ourselves in pretty good shape.” …

The Insider reports: Jared Kushner spoke about the raid on Mar-a-Lago for the first time on Sunday, after widespread speculation that he could have been a mole to the FBI. Speaking to Mark Levin, Kushner painted the FBI’s actions as part of a longstanding playbook against former President Donald Trump by bungling “enemies,” arguing that this is happening because Trump …

The Hill reports: Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in his new memoir offers few details about former President Trump’s battle with COVID-19 in 2020, but he did pinpoint a moment when he knew his father-in-law was on the mend. “I knew he was feeling better when he requested one of his favorite meals: a McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, …

CNN reports: Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser writes that Bannon once yelled and threatened him in the Cabinet Room after Gary Cohn, a senior economic adviser, informed Kushner that Bannon was leaking negative information about him. “Steve, you gotta stop leaking on Gary,” Kushner said he told Bannon. “We’re trying to build a team here.” Kushner writes that Bannon responded: …

The Washington Post reports: In a forthcoming memoir, Jared Kushner alleges that former president Donald Trump’s second chief of staff, John F. Kelly, was viewed within the White House as a bully with a “Jekyll-and-Hyde” demeanor who once shoved his wife, Ivanka Trump, out of his way after a volatile Oval Office meeting. Kelly denies the allegation. “One day he …

The New York Times reports: Jared Kushner, former President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer while he was serving in the West Wing, he wrote in an upcoming memoir set to be published next month. “On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House …

The New York Times reports: A House committee said on Thursday that it was investigating whether Jared Kushner, former President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and former adviser, traded on his government position to land a $2 billion investment in his new private equity firm from a prominent Saudi Arabian wealth fund. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, the New York Democrat who …

The Washington Post reports: Conway reserves some of her harshest criticism for Jared Kushner, whom she describes as “shrewd and calculating”; “a man of knowing nods, quizzical looks, and sidebar inquiries”; and someone who, as the president’s son-in-law, knew that “no matter how disastrous a personnel change or legislative attempt may be, he was unlikely to be held accountable for …