Tag Archives: Jared Kushner

Kushner Compares Steve Bannon To “Suicide Bomber”

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 …

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Kushner: My Mom Asked Me If I Colluded With Russia

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. …

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Kushner: “My Generation Will Be First To Live Forever”

“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.” …

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Kushner Blames FBI Raid On Trump’s “Crazy Enemies”

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 …

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BOOK: Kushner Knew Trump Was Recovering From COVID When He Asked For Food From McDonald’s

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, …

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Kushner: Leaking Liar Bannon Physically Threatened Me

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: …

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BOOK: Kushner Claims John Kelly “Shoved” Ivanka

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 …

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BOOK: Kushner Kept Cancer Diagnosis Secret In WH

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 …

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House Investigates Jared Kushner Over $2B Saudi Deal

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 …

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Conway Skewers Know-It-All Jared Kushner In Book

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 …

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Kushner To Publish White House Memoir In August

Axios reports: Jared Kushner will be out Aug. 9 with “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” with the publisher promising never-before-reported tales from the 2016 campaign, the Russia investigation, impeachment and COVID. Kushner — one of the most powerful figures in the administration of his father-in-law, former President Trump — takes readers “inside debates in the Oval Office, battles at …

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Saudi Prince Directed $2B Investment In Kushner Firm

The New York Times reports: Six months after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal. A panel that screens investments for the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund cited …

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Riot Committee Interviews Kushner For Over Six Hours

NBC News reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol interviewed its first Trump family member and the highest-ranking official from the previous administration, meeting with Jared Kushner on Thursday for more than six hours, a source in the room said. The panel met virtually with Kushner — Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a former top White …

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WH Won’t Invoke Privilege For Jarvanka’s Testimonies

Politico reports: The White House said on Tuesday it would not invoke executive privilege over the testimony of Jared Kushner or Ivanka Trump, as former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law is expected to voluntarily appear before the Jan. 6 select committee this week. “The president has spoken to the fact that Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in our …

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Jared Kushner Expected To Appear Before Riot Panel

ABC News reports: Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law who served as a senior West Wing aide during the Trump administration, is expected to appear voluntarily before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as early as Thursday, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans. Ginni Thomas — the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court …

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Kushner Seeks To Cash In On Middle East Diplomacy

The Wall Street Journal reports: Jared Kushner has toured Persian Gulf monarchies with a pitch for his new $3 billion fund: Get a piece of deals made possible by Trump administration diplomatic initiatives such as the Abraham Accords, which forged Israeli relations with several Arab states. Mr. Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has met in the …

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Cultist Rep Nominates Kushner For Nobel Peace Prize

The New York Post reports: Former White House adviser and Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kusher has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for his work as a leading negotiator of the Abraham Accords. The nomination was submitted by Long Island GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin — who also nominated Kushner’s deputy Avi Berkowitz. Kushner and Berkowitz were also nominated for the …

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Foreign Investors Pour $3B+ Into New Kushner Outfit

Reuters reports: Jared Kushner’s global investment firm, Affinity Partners, has raised more than $3 billion in committed funding from international investors, a person familiar with the fund-raising effort told Reuters on Thursday. Kushner plans to invest in American and Israeli companies that are looking for international expansion opportunities in India, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. He …

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BOOK: Jarvanka Hosted Dinner Party Day After Riot

The Independent reports: President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, hosted a fancy dinner party for members of the Trump administration and invited guests just hours after a deadly siege at the US Capitol resulted in the death of a police officer, while more would die in the coming weeks. The bizarre revelation is one …

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Kushner Pal Arrested For Stalking Despite Trump Pardon

The New York Daily News reports: A close friend of Jared Kushner was slapped with state harassment charges Wednesday — nearly eight months after he scored a last-minute pardon from President Donald Trump wiping away federal charges for the same alleged cyberstalking campaign. Ken Kurson, 52, the former editor-in-chief of the New York Observer, was charged last year in Brooklyn …

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