Jared Kushner#2020 Election Dispute

Jared Corey Kushner was born on January 10, 1981, in Livingston, New Jersey, to Seryl (née Stadtmauer) and Charles Kushner, a real-estate developer and convicted felon. His father was friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton and attended several dinners with them. Morris Stadtmauer was Jared's maternal grandfather.{{cite web |date=January 30, 2015 |title=Kushner Insider January 30, 2015 |url=https://www.jkha.org/pages/weekly-updates/digest/kushner-insider-1-30-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422084708/https://www.jkha.org/pages/weekly-updates/digest/kushner-insider-1-30-15 |archive-date=April 22, 2016 |access-date=July 7, 2018 |website=Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy/Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School}} His paternal grandparents, Reichel and Joseph Kushner, were Holocaust survivors who came to the U.S. in 1949 from Navahrudak, now in Belarus.{{cite web |url=https://belarusdigest.com/story/what-does-trumps-presidency-mean-for-belarus/ |title=What Does Trump's Presidency Mean for Belarus? |last1=Rudnik |first1=Alesia |last2=Smok |first2=Vadzim |date=November 18, 2016 |website=BelarusDigest.com |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180709183434/https://belarusdigest.com/story/what-does-trumps-presidency-mean-for-belarus/ |archive-date=July 9, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=July 9, 2018}}{{cite magazine |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/jared-kushner-trump-administration-power.html |title=The Young Trump: Jared Kushner's Rise to Unimaginable Power |first=Andrew |last=Rice |magazine=New York|date=January 8, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115000329/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/jared-kushner-trump-administration-power.html |archive-date=January 15, 2017}} Reichel, described as the family's matriarch, led efforts during the Holocaust to escape from the Navahrudak ghetto by digging a tunnel. Later, she became a member of the Bielski partisans.{{Cite web |title=Rae Kushner |url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/rae-kushner |access-date=April 24, 2022 |website=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |archive-date=January 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200123131724/https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-resistance?parent=en/11920 |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Lipshiz |first=Cnaan |date=June 10, 2017 |title=Jared Kushner's family is a legend in this Belarus town |work=Times of Israel |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/jared-kushners-family-is-a-legend-in-this-belarus-town/ |access-date=April 24, 2022 |archive-date=April 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424061148/https://www.timesofisrael.com/jared-kushners-family-is-a-legend-in-this-belarus-town/ |url-status=live }}

Raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family,{{cite news |url=http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jared-Kushner-once-broke-up-with-Ivanka-Trump-over-religion-issue-464353 |title=Jared Kushner once broke up with Ivanka Trump over 'religion issue' |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224132903/http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jared-Kushner-once-broke-up-with-Ivanka-Trump-over-religion-issue-464353 |archive-date=February 24, 2017}} Kushner graduated from the Frisch School, a Modern Orthodox yeshiva high school, in 1999 and enrolled at Harvard University in the same year. According to journalist Daniel Golden, Kushner's father made a donation of $2.5 million to the university in 1998, not long before Jared was admitted.{{cite web |last1=Prokop |first1=Andrew |title=As Trump takes aim at affirmative action, let's remember how Jared Kushner got into Harvard |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/2/16084226/jared-kushner-harvard-affirmative-action |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |location=New York City|date=August 2, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124135619/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/2/16084226/jared-kushner-harvard-affirmative-action |archive-date=January 24, 2018}}{{cite web |last1=Golden |first1=Daniel |title=The Story Behind Jared Kushner's Curious Acceptance into Harvard |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard |website=Propublica.org |publisher=Pro Publica Inc. |location=New York City|access-date=January 24, 2018 |date=November 18, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124042137/https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard |archive-date=January 24, 2018}} At Harvard, Kushner was elected into the Fly Club, supported the campus Chabad house led by Hirschy Zarchi,{{cite web |last=Sales |first=Ben |title=Jared Kushner's College Rabbi Recalls a Snow-Shoveling Student Mega-Donor |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=January 27, 2017 |url=http://www.jta.org/2017/01/27/news-opinion/politics/jared-kushners-college-rabbi-recalls-a-snow-shoveling-student-mega-donor |quote=Beyond the surprise [$18,000] donation, Kushner ... recruited students to Chabad's programs, performed workaday tasks for the house and served as the emcee when Chabad dedicated a new building in 2003. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129051923/http://www.jta.org/2017/01/27/news-opinion/politics/jared-kushners-college-rabbi-recalls-a-snow-shoveling-student-mega-donor |archive-date=January 29, 2017}}{{cite web |last=Nielsen |first=Jason |date=April 24, 2003 |title=Chabad House a Home to Many; Orthodox Jewish Organization Is Thriving at Liberal Harvard Campus |url=http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/chabad/news%20articles/news_advocate.html |url-status=live |newspaper=The Jewish Advocate |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705135212/http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/chabad/news%20articles/news_advocate.html |archive-date=July 5, 2010}} and bought and sold real estate in Somerville, Massachusetts, as a vice president of Somerville Building Associates (a division of Kushner Companies), returning a profit of $20 million by its dissolution in 2005.Its other vice president was his maternal uncle, Richard Stadtmauer, then vice chairman of Kushner Companies {{cite news |last=Whitehouse |first=Kaja |date=September 12, 2016 |title=Family of Trump's Son-in-Law Linked to Hedge Fund Probe |url=https://nypost.com/2016/09/12/family-of-trumps-son-in-law-linked-to-hedge-fund-probe/ |newspaper=The New York Post|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418041556/http://nypost.com/2016/09/12/family-of-trumps-son-in-law-linked-to-hedge-fund-probe/ |archive-date=April 18, 2017}}{{cite web |last=Pendergrass |first=Drew |title=Becoming Jared Kushner |magazine=Harvard Crimson |date=March 9, 2017 |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/3/9/jared-kushner-undergrad/ |quote=Kushner was vice president of 10 corporations as an undergrad, each of which operated as a part of Kushner Companies... Richard Stadtmauer, Jared Kushner's uncle and the only other vice president ... listed in publicly available documents, was convicted of felony tax fraud in 2009 and sentenced to 38 months... |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320145401/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/3/9/jared-kushner-undergrad/ |archive-date=March 20, 2017}}{{cite web |last=Birkner |first=Gabrielle |title=Kushner Quietly Raising His Stake in Manhattan |newspaper=The New York Sun |date=August 4, 2006 |url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/kushner-quietly-raising-his-stake-in-manhattan/37370/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121043403/http://www.nysun.com/new-york/kushner-quietly-raising-his-stake-in-manhattan/37370 |archive-date=January 21, 2017}} Kushner graduated from Harvard with honors in 2003, with a B.A. degree in government.{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/most-powerful-harvard-graduates-2017-4 |title=18 of the most powerful Harvard graduates alive |work=Business Insider |location=New York City|date=April 28, 2017 |first1=Peter |last1=Jacobs |first2=Abby |last2=Jackson |access-date=March 22, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051112/http://www.businessinsider.com/most-powerful-harvard-graduates-2017-4 |archive-date=December 22, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Golden |first1=Daniel |title=How Did 'Less Than Stellar' High School Student Jared Kushner Get into Harvard? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/18/jared-kushner-harvard-donald-trump-son-in-law |newspaper=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian Media Company |location=London, England|date=November 18, 2016 |author-link=Daniel Golden |quote=Charles and Seryl Kushner were both on [Harvard's Committee on University Resources]... His sons Jared and Joshua had both enrolled there... In 1998 ... [Charles] had pledged $2.5m to Harvard ... [and] also visited Neil Rudenstine, then Harvard president, and discussed funding a scholarship program for low- and middle-income students. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408051526/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/18/jared-kushner-harvard-donald-trump-son-in-law |archive-date=April 8, 2017}}

Kushner then enrolled in the JD/MBA dual degree program at the New York University School of Law and New York University Stern School of Business, and graduated with both degrees in 2007. He interned at Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau's office, and with the New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.{{cite news|first1=Jeff|last1=Pillets|first2=Clint|last2=Riley|date=June 16, 2002|title=Paying for Power: The Kushner Network|newspaper=Bergen Record|page=1}}

Following his father's conviction and subsequent incarceration between March 4, 2005, and August 25, 2006, Kushner took a much bigger role in the family real estate business.{{cite news |first=Byron |last=York |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-the-sordid-case-behind-jared-kushners-grudge-against-chris-christie |title=Byron York: The sordid case behind Jared Kushner's grudge against Chris Christie |date=April 16, 2017 |newspaper=Washington Examiner |publisher=MediaDC |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=December 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211061534/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-the-sordid-case-behind-jared-kushners-grudge-against-chris-christie |archive-date=December 11, 2018 |url-status=live}}{{unreliable source?|date=April 2020}} He set about expanding the business and acquired almost $7 billion in property over the next ten years, much of it in New York City.[https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-jared-kushner-trump-card/ Jared Kushner's trump card] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407220850/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-jared-kushner-trump-card/ |date=April 7, 2020}}, Bloomberg Businessweek

Kushner was an active real estate investor during his college years, and increased the Kushner Companies' presence throughout the New York City real estate market.{{cite web |title=Kushner Quietly Raising His Stake in Manhattan |url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/kushner-quietly-raising-his-stake-in-manhattan/37370 |access-date=August 4, 2006 |newspaper=The New York Sun |date=August 4, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402215749/http://www.nysun.com/new-york/kushner-quietly-raising-his-stake-in-manhattan/37370 |archive-date=April 2, 2010}}

File:666fifth-front.jpg in 2007 for $1.8 billion, the most expensive single property purchase in US history at the time.{{cite web |url=http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/behind-the-record-deal-for-666-fifth-avenue |title=Behind the record deal for 666 Fifth Avenue |date=October 22, 2007 |first=Adam |last=Piore |work=The Real Deal |publisher=Korangy Publishing Inc. |access-date=September 30, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001053022/http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/behind-the-record-deal-for-666-fifth-avenue/ |archive-date=October 1, 2016}}]] Kushner Companies purchased the office building at 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007, for a then-record price of $1.8 billion, most of it borrowed. He assumed the role of CEO in 2008.{{cite web |url=http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/jared-kushner-the-accidental-ceo |title=Jared Kushner, the accidental CEO |last=Clarke |first=Katherine |date=February 1, 2014 |work=The Real Deal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610113516/http://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/jared-kushner-the-accidental-ceo/ |archive-date=June 10, 2014 |url-status=live |access-date=June 8, 2014}} Following the property crash that year, the cash flow generated by the property was insufficient to cover its debt service, and the Kushners were forced to sell a controlling stake in the retail footage to The Carlyle Group and Stanley Chera[http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/06/03/crown-highgate-to-pay-1-3b-for-650-madison/ The Real Deal: "$1.3B sale of 650 Madison hinges on dramatic increase in retail value, sources say" by Adam Pincus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203083805/http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/06/03/crown-highgate-to-pay-1-3b-for-650-madison/ |date=February 3, 2014}} June 3, 2013. and bring in Vornado Realty Trust as a 50% equity partner in the ownership of the building.{{cite web |url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/dcce/20110913/12/real_estate/122/deals_active/2639480 |title=Private equity outfit signs on at 666 Fifth |first=Theresa |last=Agovino |work=Crain's New York Business |date=September 13, 2011 |access-date=October 21, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017021305/http://www.crainsnewyork.com/dcce/20110913/12/real_estate/122/deals_active/2639480 |archive-date=October 17, 2011}} By that time, Kushner Companies had lost more than $90 million on its investment.{{cite web |last=Pincus |first=Adam |title=Tallying Who Won at 666 Fifth Avenue |magazine=The Real Deal |date=August 2012 |url=https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/a-666-fifth-scorecard/ |quote=The Real Deal created a scorecard estimating how much in profits (or losses) all of the parties involved in 666 Fifth Avenue have walked away with. • Kushner Companies. Retail: Estimated profits of about $100 to $120 million. Office: Estimated current loss ... of more than $200 million. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201030409/https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/a-666-fifth-scorecard/ |archive-date=February 1, 2017}} He was the face of the deal but his father Charles Kushner pushed him to do the deal.{{cite web |last=Alesci |first=Cristina |author-link1=Cristina Alesci |title=Charles Kushner: 'I pushed Jared to do the deal' for 666 Fifth Ave. |date=April 23, 2018 |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/charles-jared-kushner-666-fifth-avenue/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=July 7, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707175642/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/charles-jared-kushner-666-fifth-avenue/index.html |archive-date=July 7, 2018}}

In 2011, Kushner purchased a 130,000 square foot office tower at 200 Lafayette Street in Manhattan for $50 million, selling it two years later for $150 million.{{Cite news |date=November 23, 2011 |title=Kushner, CIM partner to buy 200 Lafayette Street for $50M |work=The Real Deal |url=https://therealdeal.com/2011/11/23/jared-kushner-and-cim-group-partner-to-buy-200-lafayette-street-from-investors-john-zaccaro-in-deal-marketed-by-massey-knakal/ |access-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-date=June 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622051752/https://therealdeal.com/2011/11/23/jared-kushner-and-cim-group-partner-to-buy-200-lafayette-street-from-investors-john-zaccaro-in-deal-marketed-by-massey-knakal/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |date=September 18, 2013 |title=General Growth to buy JCP offices from Kushner group for $150M |url=https://nypost.com/2013/09/18/general-growth-to-buy-jcp-offices-from-kushner-group-for-150m/ |access-date=July 21, 2022 |website=New York Post |language=en-US |archive-date=September 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912061633/http://nypost.com/2013/09/18/general-growth-to-buy-jcp-offices-from-kushner-group-for-150m/ |url-status=live }} In 2013, his company led a transaction to purchase the Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn Heights for $375 million and invested $100 million into the site, transforming it into a sprawling office park, and signing online retailer Etsy to a 10-year lease.{{Cite web |date=September 7, 2017 |title=Kushner Cos. drops out of deal to buy a hotel from the Jehovah's Witnesses |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/09/07/kushner-cos-drops-out-of-deal-to-buy-a-hotel-from-the-jehovahs-witnesses/ |access-date=July 21, 2022 |website=Brooklyn Eagle |language=en-US |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111231652/https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/09/07/kushner-cos-drops-out-of-deal-to-buy-a-hotel-from-the-jehovahs-witnesses/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=May 13, 2014 |title=Etsy leases huge space in Kushner's Watchtower complex |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/05/13/etsy-leases-huge-space-in-kushners-watchtower-complex/ |access-date=July 21, 2022 |website=Brooklyn Eagle |language=en-US |archive-date=July 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725194013/https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/05/13/etsy-leases-huge-space-in-kushners-watchtower-complex/ |url-status=live }} The same year, Kushner co-founded WiredScore, a global organization that provides a digital connectivity certification rating the quality and resilience of digital infrastructure in buildings.{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Samantha |title=Jared Kushner Sells Majority Stake In Real Estate Tech Firm WiredScore |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2017/10/10/exclusive-jared-kushner-sells-majority-stake-in-real-estate-tech-firm-wiredscore/ |access-date=August 5, 2022 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805194806/https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2017/10/10/exclusive-jared-kushner-sells-majority-stake-in-real-estate-tech-firm-wiredscore/ |url-status=live }}

Throughout 2013 to 2014, Kushner and his company acquired more than 11,000 units throughout New York, New Jersey, and the Baltimore area.{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/blog/real-estate/2014/08/donald-trumps-son-in-law-buys-3-middle-river.html |title=Donald Trump's son-in-law buys 3 Middle River apartment complexes |publisher=Bizjournal |date=August 18, 2014 |access-date=August 20, 2014 |author=Kevin Litten |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822013210/http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/blog/real-estate/2014/08/donald-trumps-son-in-law-buys-3-middle-river.html |archive-date=August 22, 2014}} In August 2014, Kushner acquired a three-building apartment portfolio in Middle River, Maryland, for $38 million with Aion Partners, later selling the complex for $68 million.{{Cite web |date=April 28, 2022 |title=Luxury apartment complex near downtown Tulsa sold for $68 million |url=https://www.fox23.com/news/luxury-apartment-complex-near-downtown-tulsa-sold-68-million-dollars/OZTFO2XCC5CDLDODTLNPKSBRAA/ |access-date=July 21, 2022 |website=FOX23 News |language=en |archive-date=April 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220428032508/https://www.fox23.com/news/luxury-apartment-complex-near-downtown-tulsa-sold-68-million-dollars/OZTFO2XCC5CDLDODTLNPKSBRAA/|url-status=live}} In May 2015, he acquired a 50.1% stake of the Times Square Building from Africa Israel Investments Ltd. for $295 million.

File:One Times Square May 2014.jpg for $295 million.{{cite web |last=Ben-Israel |first=Adi |date=May 14, 2015 |url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-africa-israel-sells-times-square-building-for-295m-1001036416 |title=Africa Israel sells Times Square building for $295m |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150516204206/http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-africa-israel-sells-times-square-building-for-295m-1001036416 |archive-date=May 16, 2015 |work=Globes English}}]]

In 2014, Kushner, with his brother Joshua and Ryan Williams, co-founded Cadre (now RealCadre LLC), an online real-estate investment platform. His business partners included Goldman Sachs and billionaire George Soros, a top Democratic Party donor.{{cite web |last=Kirby |first=Jen |title=Jared Kushner Reportedly Failed to Disclose Stake in Real-Estate Tech Start-Up |magazine=New York |date=May 2, 2017 |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/report-jared-kushner-failed-to-disclose-stake-in-startup.html |quote=Kushner did not list his part-ownership in a real-estate start-up called Cadre, whose investors include a Goldman Sachs fund ... and George Soros, the Democratic megadonor and favorite target of the Trumpian base. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505032452/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/report-jared-kushner-failed-to-disclose-stake-in-startup.html |archive-date=May 5, 2017}}{{cite web |last=Sorvino |first=Chloe |title=Here's How Much Jared Kushner and His Family Are Really Worth |magazine=Forbes|date=December 18, 2016 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2016/12/18/jared-josh-kushner-fortune-donald-trump-real-estate/ |quote=Josh ... and Jared also cofounded Cadre, an online platform for investing in real estate, in 2014. Two years later, it raised $50 million from a group of big-name investors including Goldman Sachs ... billionaire George Soros's private equity firm and Russian billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511044352/https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2016/12/18/jared-josh-kushner-fortune-donald-trump-real-estate/ |archive-date=May 11, 2017}} In early 2015, Soros Fund Management financed the startup with a $250 million credit line.{{cite journal |last=Chung |first=Juliet |title=A Tech Startup's Major Investors |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |page=A2 |date=May 3, 2017 |quote=Kushner co-founded Cadre in 2014... To get off the ground, Cadre turned to a Goldman Sachs fund and a number of high-profile investors... Cadre also secured a $250 million line of credit from the family office of George Soros... Soros' family office is also an investor in Cadre.}}{{cite web |last=Putzier |first=Konrad |title=George Soros is the secret financier behind Kushner-backed startup Cadre |magazine=The Real Deal |date=January 27, 2017 |url=https://therealdeal.com/2017/01/27/george-soros-is-the-secret-financier-behind-kushner-backed-startup-cadre/ |quote=George Soros' Soros Fund Management has quietly been financing the Kushner-backed real estate finance startup Cadre with a substantial credit line, according to sources familiar with the matter. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515104641/https://therealdeal.com/2017/01/27/george-soros-is-the-secret-financier-behind-kushner-backed-startup-cadre/ |archive-date=May 15, 2017}} Kushner did not identify these business relationships in his January 2017 government financial-disclosure form.{{cite web |last1=Eaglesham |first1=Jean |last2=Chung |first2=Juliet |last3=Schwartz |first3=Lisa |date=May 3, 2017 |title=Trump Adviser Kushner's Undisclosed Partners Include Goldman and Soros |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-adviser-jared-kushner-didnt-disclose-startup-stake-1493717405 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |page=1 |quote=Kushner ... is currently in business with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and billionaires George Soros and Peter Thiel, according to people familiar with the matter and securities filings. |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504052135/https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-adviser-jared-kushner-didnt-disclose-startup-stake-1493717405 |archive-date=May 4, 2017}} He did, however, disclose his ownership of BFPS Ventures, the company that housed his stake in Cadre.{{Cite web |title=Jared Kushner retains ownership in multi-million dollar tech company, didn't disclose it |date=July 7, 2017 |url=https://archive.thinkprogress.org/https-thinkprogress-org-jared-kushner-disclosure-bc28497963ea/ |access-date=August 5, 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220919220421/https://archive.thinkprogress.org/https-thinkprogress-org-jared-kushner-disclosure-bc28497963ea/ |url-status=live }} In 2020, his ownership stake in Cadre was estimated at $25–50 million.{{cite web|last=Corn|first=David|date=October 1, 2020|title=A real estate firm co-owned by Jared Kushner is looking to profit from the pandemic|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/a-real-estate-firm-co-owned-by-jared-kushner-is-looking-to-profit-from-the-pandemic/|access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Mother Jones|language=en-US|archive-date=October 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003231546/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/a-real-estate-firm-co-owned-by-jared-kushner-is-looking-to-profit-from-the-pandemic/|url-status=live}}

File:Jared Kushner and Peter Kaplan (cropped).jpg's then editor-in-chief Peter W. Kaplan, September 2008.]]

In 2006, Kushner purchased The New York Observer, a weekly New York City newspaper, for $10 million,Seelye, Katharine Q. (July 31, 2006). [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/business/media/31observer.html "Developer's Son Acquires The New York Observer"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704224359/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/31/business/media/31observer.html |date=July 4, 2017}}. The New York Times. Retrieved January 8, 2008. outcompeting a bid by Trifecta Enterprises, a group headed by Robert De Niro. To make the bid, Kushner used money he says he earned during his college years by closing deals on residential buildings he purchased in Somerville, Massachusetts,Gell, Aaron, "[https://gen.medium.com/jared-kushner-was-my-boss-f3ebe0bffcfc Jared Kushner Was My Boss] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622022212/https://gen.medium.com/jared-kushner-was-my-boss-f3ebe0bffcfc |date=June 22, 2019}}", Gen, June 18, 2019 with family members providing the backing for his investments.{{cite web |title=Kushner Buys NY Observer |work=The Harvard Crimson |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/8/4/kushner-buys-ny-observer-jared-c/ |date=August 4, 2006 |access-date=January 2, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173900/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/8/4/kushner-buys-ny-observer-jared-c/ |archive-date=March 3, 2016}} The buildings, which he purchased for $8.3 million in 2000, sold four years later for $13 million.{{Cite web |title=Jared Kushner was a Somerville landlord, and it wasn't always pretty |url=https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/06/24/jared-kushner-was-a-somerville-landlord-and-it-wasnt-always-pretty/ |access-date=August 5, 2022 |website=www.boston.com |language=en-US |archive-date=September 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921182248/https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2017/06/24/jared-kushner-was-a-somerville-landlord-and-it-wasnt-always-pretty/ |url-status=live }}

After purchasing the Observer, Kushner published it in tabloid format.Teodorczuk, Tom (November 9, 2008). [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/10/interview-jared-kushner "An accidental proprietor"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111001510/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/10/interview-jared-kushner |date=January 11, 2017}}. The Guardian (London). Retrieved October 21, 2011. Since then, he has been credited with increasing the Observer{{'}}s online presence and expanding the Observer Media Group.{{cite web |title=We've Got the BetaBeat |url=https://observer.com/2011/03/we-got-the-betabeat-the-observer-tech-site-launches-tomorrow/ |date=March 15, 2011 |work=The New York Observer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014093932/http://observer.com/2011/03/we-got-the-betabeat-the-observer-tech-site-launches-tomorrow/ |archive-date=October 14, 2012}}{{cite web |title=Kushner and Observer Media Group Acquire 80 Percent Stake in Barry Diller's Vary Short List |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/item_i6IUlVRWFNy5ntZsYjlCaP |date=June 15, 2009 |work=New York Post |first=Peter |last=Lauria |access-date=December 26, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310044447/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/item_i6IUlVRWFNy5ntZsYjlCaP |archive-date=March 10, 2013}} With no substantial experience in journalism, Kushner could not establish a good relationship with the newspaper's veteran editor-in-chief, Peter W. Kaplan.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/jared-kushner-donald-trump.html |title=The In-Law in the Trump Inner Circle: Jared Kushner's Steadying Hand |newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 19, 2016 |access-date=November 20, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121081715/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/jared-kushner-donald-trump.html |archive-date=November 21, 2016|last1=Mahler |first1=Jonathan |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie }} "This guy doesn't know what he doesn't know", Kaplan remarked about Kushner, to colleagues, at the time. As a result of his differences with Kushner, Kaplan quit his position. Kaplan was followed by a series of short-lived successors until Kushner hired Elizabeth Spiers in 2011.{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-jared-kushner-trump-card |title=Jared Kushner's Trump Card |newspaper=Bloomberg |publisher=Bloomberg|access-date=November 16, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116104142/http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-jared-kushner-trump-card/ |archive-date=November 16, 2016}} It has been alleged that Kushner used the Observer as propaganda against rivals in real estate.{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-york-observer-alum-how-jared-kushner-targeted-a-real-estate-rival-993099 |title=New York Observer Alum on How Jared Kushner Targeted a Real Estate Rival |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter|date=April 12, 2017 |access-date=April 12, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412205159/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-york-observer-alum-how-jared-kushner-targeted-a-real-estate-rival-993099 |archive-date=April 12, 2017}} Spiers left the newspaper in 2012. In January 2013, Kushner hired a new editor-in-chief, Ken Kurson. Kurson had been a consultant to Republican political candidates in New Jersey.

According to Vanity Fair, under Kushner, the "Observer has lost virtually all of its cultural currency among New York's elite, but the paper is now profitable and reporting traffic growth ... [it] boasts 6 million unique visitors per month, up from 1.3 million in January 2013".Ellison, Sarah (July 7, 2016). [http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/jared-kushner-donald-trump-mini-me "Exclusive: How Jared Kushner became Donald Trump's Mini-Me"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708122557/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/jared-kushner-donald-trump-mini-me |date=July 8, 2016}}, Vanity Fair. In April 2016, the New York Observer became one of only a handful of newspapers to officially endorse United States presidential candidate Donald Trump in the Republican primary, but the paper ended the campaign period by choosing not to back any presidential candidate at all.{{cite web |url=http://observer.com/2016/04/in-the-republican-primary-donald-trump-for-president/ |title=In the Republican Primary: Donald Trump for President |date=April 12, 2016 |work=The New York Observer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001035111/http://observer.com/2016/04/in-the-republican-primary-donald-trump-for-president/ |archive-date=October 1, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-new-york-observer_us_5819f55ae4b092edafb57456 |title=Donald Trump Will Not Get His Son-In-Law's Paper's Endorsement |first=Michael |last=Calderone |work=HuffPost|date=November 2, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107221440/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-new-york-observer_us_5819f55ae4b092edafb57456 |archive-date=November 7, 2016}}

Kushner stepped down from his newspaper role in January 2017 to pursue a role in President Donald Trump's administration. He was replaced by his brother-in-law, Joseph Meyer.{{cite web |last=McAlone |first=Nathan |title=Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner will step down as publisher of the Observer, and have no 'ownership stake' |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-steps-down-as-publisher-of-the-observer-2017-1 |access-date=February 27, 2017 |work=Business Insider |date=January 9, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170512112415/http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-steps-down-as-publisher-of-the-observer-2017-1 |archive-date=May 12, 2017}}

Jared Kushner had been a lifelong Democrat prior to his father-in-law Donald Trump entering politics.{{cite web |last=Schallhorn |first=Kaitlyn |title=Jared Kushner's ties to the White House, link to the Russia investigation |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jared-kushners-ties-to-the-white-house-link-to-the-russia-investigation |website=Fox News Channel |publisher=News Corp|location=New York City|access-date=June 27, 2018 |date=February 27, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618160542/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/27/jared-kushners-ties-to-white-house-link-to-russia-investigation.html |archive-date=June 18, 2018}} He had donated over $10,000 to Democratic campaigns{{cite news |last=Milord |first=Joseph |title=Jared Kushner's Brother Reportedly Donated A Lot Of Money To March For Our Lives |url=https://www.elitedaily.com/p/jared-kushners-brother-reportedly-donated-money-to-march-for-our-lives-its-a-lot-8487782 |website=Elite Daily |access-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628015501/https://www.elitedaily.com/p/jared-kushners-brother-reportedly-donated-money-to-march-for-our-lives-its-a-lot-8487782 |archive-date=June 28, 2018}} starting at the age of 11. In 2008, he donated to the campaign for Hillary Clinton and his newspaper the New York Observer endorsed Barack Obama over John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election.{{cite web |last=Mathis-Lilley |first=Ben |title=Trump's Family Really Has a Long History of Giving Money to, Praising, and Endorsing Democrats |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/21/trumps_kushner_have_history_of_supporting_clinton_obama_other_democrats.html |website=Slate |publisher=The Slate Group|location=San Francisco, California|access-date=June 27, 2018 |date=July 21, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709184250/http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/21/trumps_kushner_have_history_of_supporting_clinton_obama_other_democrats.html |archive-date=July 9, 2018}} After expressing disappointment with Obama, however, he registered as an independent in 2009 and endorsed Republican U.S. presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012 via the New York Observer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/politics/jared-kushner-israel.html |title=For Kushner, Israel Policy May Be Shaped by the Personal |first=Jodi |last=Kantor|author-link=Jodi Kantor |date=February 11, 2017 |work=The New York Times|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710180142/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/politics/jared-kushner-israel.html |archive-date=July 10, 2017}} In 2014 he continued to donate to Democratic groups,{{r|SupportHistoryDemocrats}} but joined his father-in-law Donald Trump's nascent US presidential campaign in the field of the Republican candidates in 2015.{{refn|{{cite news |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/jared-kushner-donald-trump.html|title=The In-Law in the Trump Inner Circle: Jared Kushner's Steadying Hand |first1=Jonathan |last1=Mahler|first2=Maggie|last2=Haberman|author-link2=Maggie Haberman|date=November 19, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307112355/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/jared-kushner-donald-trump.html |archive-date=March 7, 2017}}{{cite web |title=Jared Kushner, Trump's Unlikely Wing Man |first=Rebecca|last=Berg |date=May 31, 2016 |publisher=RealClearPolitics |url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/31/jared_kushner_trumps_unlikely_wing_man.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202062957/http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/05/31/jared_kushner_trumps_unlikely_wing_man.html |archive-date=February 2, 2017}}{{cite magazine |title=Trump's Family Really Has a Long History of Giving Money to, Praising, and Endorsing Democrats |author=Mathis-Lilley, Ben |date=July 21, 2016 |magazine=Slate |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/21/trumps_kushner_have_history_of_supporting_clinton_obama_other_democrats.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315091557/http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/21/trumps_kushner_have_history_of_supporting_clinton_obama_other_democrats.html |archive-date=March 15, 2017}}{{cite magazine |title=Observer Owner Jared Kushner: $100,000 in Political Contributions Since 1992 |author=Dylan |date=July 31, 2006 |magazine=Adweek |url=http://www.adweek.com/digital/observer-owner-jared-kushner-100000-in-political-contributions-since-1992/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315093717/http://www.adweek.com/digital/observer-owner-jared-kushner-100000-in-political-contributions-since-1992/ |archive-date=March 15, 2017}}}} Kushner had no prior involvement in campaign politics or in government before Trump's campaign.{{cite magazine |title=Jared Kushner's Second Act |first=Vicky|last=Ward|date=August 18, 2016 |magazine=Esquire |location=New York City|url=http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47697/jared-kushner-trump-campaign/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314225911/http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47697/jared-kushner-trump-campaign/ |archive-date=March 14, 2017}}

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From the outset of the presidential campaign of his father-in-law Donald Trump, Kushner was the architect of Trump's digital, online, and social media campaigns, enlisting talent from Silicon Valley to run a 100-person social-media team dubbed "Project Alamo."Fox, Emily Jane (October 27, 2016). [http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/jared-trump-trump-campaign "Was Donald Trump's son-in-law the evil genius all along?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030050251/http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/jared-trump-trump-campaign |date=October 30, 2016}}, Vanity Fair. The digital team tested more than one hundred thousand ad combinations a week, raising more than $250 million in small-dollar donations in the closing months of the campaign. Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's top advertising executive during the 2016 campaign cycle, called it the “single best digital ad campaign I’ve ever seen from any advertiser.”{{Cite web |last=Rodriguez |first=Salvador |title=Top Facebook exec says Trump ran the best digital ad campaign ever in 2016 |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/top-facebook-exec-says-trump-ran-best-digital-ad-campaign-ever-in-2016.html |access-date=August 5, 2022 |website=CNBC |date=January 7, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=August 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805200038/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/07/top-facebook-exec-says-trump-ran-best-digital-ad-campaign-ever-in-2016.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite magazine |date=October 27, 2016 |title=Was Donald Trump's Son-in-Law the Evil Genius All Along? |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/jared-trump-trump-campaign |access-date=August 5, 2022 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US |archive-date=June 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626215946/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/jared-trump-trump-campaign |url-status=live }}

Kushner, together with Paul Manafort and Brad Parscale, hired Steve Bannon's firm Cambridge Analytica to support the Trump campaign.{{cite web|url=https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/kushner-manafort-were-primary-players-in-hiring-cambridge-analytica-for-trump-campaign-1189530691843|title=Kushner, Manafort were primary players in hiring Cambridge Analytica for Trump campaign|website=MSNBC.com|access-date=March 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308010145/https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/kushner-manafort-were-primary-players-in-hiring-cambridge-analytica-for-trump-campaign-1189530691843|archive-date=March 8, 2019|url-status=live}} Kushner has also helped as a speechwriter, and was tasked with working to establish a plan for Trump's White House transition team.{{cite news|first=Ashley|last=Parker, Ashley|date=May 6, 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/06/trump-asks-his-son-in-law-jared-kushner-to-plan-for-a-transition-team|title=Trump Asks Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner, to Plan for Transition Team|newspaper=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224205352/https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/06/trump-asks-his-son-in-law-jared-kushner-to-plan-for-a-transition-team/ |archive-date=February 24, 2017}} He was for a time seen as Trump's de facto campaign manager, succeeding Corey Lewandowski, who was fired in part on Kushner's recommendation in June 2016.{{cite news |last1=Barbaro |first1=Michael |last2=Mahler |first2=Jonathan |title=Quiet Fixer in Donald Trump's Campaign: His Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/us/politics/jared-kushner-donald-trump.html |access-date=July 5, 2016 |work=The New York Times |date=July 4, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160705001545/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/us/politics/jared-kushner-donald-trump.html |archive-date=July 5, 2016}} He had been intimately involved with campaign strategy, coordinating Trump's visit in late August to Mexico, and he is believed to be responsible for the choice of Mike Pence as Trump's running mate.{{cite news |first1=Alexander|last1=Burns|first2=Maggie|last2=Haberman|author-link2=Maggie Haberman|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/us/politics/trump-campaign.html |title=Trailing Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Turns to Political Gymnastics |date=September 1, 2016 |work=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226095255/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/us/politics/trump-campaign.html |archive-date=February 26, 2017}} Kushner's "sprawling digital fundraising database and social media campaign" has been described as "the locus of his father-in-law's presidential bid."{{cite web|first=Joshua|last=Green|date=October 27, 2016|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go|title=Inside the Trump Bunker, With Days to Go|website=Bloomberg Business|publisher=Bloomberg, L.P.|location=New York City|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226024744/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go |archive-date=February 26, 2017}}

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (who worked on technology for Hillary Clinton's campaign), Kushner's role in the 2016 election was its biggest surprise. Schmidt told Forbes, "Best I can tell, he actually ran the campaign and did it with essentially no resources."{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/ |title=Exclusive Interview: How Jared Kushner Won Trump the White House |last=Bertoni |first=Steven |date=November 22, 2016 |website=Forbes |location=New York City|quote=Kushner went to a private Jewish high school and then to Harvard (a 2006 book about college admissions would later single out Kushner as a prime example of how children of wealthy donors get preferential treatment...). |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504062939/https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/ |archive-date=May 4, 2017}} Federal Election Commission filings indicate the Trump campaign spent $343 million, about 59 percent as much as the Clinton campaign.{{cite report |title=Presidential Candidate 24-Month Data Summaries: Campaign Disbursements through December 31, 2016 |url=http://classic.fec.gov/press/summaries/2016/ElectionCycle/24m_PresCand.shtml |publisher=Federal Election Commission |year=2017 |quote=Total Disbursements |access-date=May 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729153020/http://classic.fec.gov/press/summaries/2016/ElectionCycle/24m_PresCand.shtml |archive-date=July 29, 2017 |url-status=dead}}

On July 5, 2016, Kushner wrote an open letter in the New York Observer addressing the controversy around a tweet from the Trump campaign containing allegedly anti-Semitic imagery. He was responding to his own paper's editorial by Dana Schwartz criticizing Kushner's involvement with the Trump campaign.{{cite web |last1=Keneally |first1=Meghan |title=Kushner Defends Father-In-Law Donald Trump After Anti-Semitism Claims |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jared-kushner-defends-father-law-donald-trump-anti/story?id=40373483 |website=ABC News |publisher=American Broadcasting Company|location=New York City|access-date=July 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160707153612/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jared-kushner-defends-father-law-donald-trump-anti/story?id=40373483 |archive-date=July 7, 2016}} In the letter, Kushner wrote, "In my opinion, accusations like 'racist' and 'anti-Semite' are being thrown around with a carelessness that risks rendering these words meaningless."{{cite web |last1=Kushner |first1=Jared |title=Jared Kushner: The Donald Trump I Know |url=http://observer.com/2016/07/jared-kushner-the-donald-trump-i-know/ |work=The New York Observer |date=July 6, 2016|access-date=July 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706230652/http://observer.com/2016/07/jared-kushner-the-donald-trump-i-know/ |archive-date=July 6, 2016}} His estranged cousin Marc responded to the op-ed on Facebook that his lesson from the story of his grandparents was to renounce hate.{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/jared-kushner-family-trump-holocaust-225210|title=Trump's son-in-law under fire from family: Jared Kushner's family denounces his use of their Holocaust history to defend the GOP nominee against charges of anti-Semitism|first=Eli|last=Stokols|work=Politico|date=July 7, 2016|access-date=November 11, 2021|archive-date=November 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211112031050/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/jared-kushner-family-trump-holocaust-225210|url-status=live}}

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During the presidential transition, Kushner was said to be his father-in-law's "confidant,"{{cite news |first=Shawn|last=Boburg|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-fathers-scandal-the-genesis-of-jared-kushners-unflinching-loyalty/2016/11/27/1e9497ba-b378-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html |title=For Trump son-in-law and confidant Jared Kushner, a long history of fierce loyalty |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=December 13, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213034128/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-fathers-scandal-the-genesis-of-jared-kushners-unflinching-loyalty/2016/11/27/1e9497ba-b378-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html |archive-date=December 13, 2016}} and one of Donald Trump's closest advisors, even more so than Trump's four adult children.{{cite web |url-status=live |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-team-rivals-231277 |title=Trump team rivalries spark infighting |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118212223/http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-team-rivals-231277 |archive-date=November 18, 2016 |first1=Kenneth P. |last1=Vogel |first2=Nancy|last2=Cook |first3=Alex|last3=Isenstadt |date=November 11, 2016 |website=Politico|publisher=Capitol Publishing Company|location=Arlington, Virginia}} Trump was reported to have requested the top-secret security clearance for him to attend the presidential daily intelligence briefings as his staff-level companion, along with General Mike Flynn, who already had the clearance prior to his resignation.{{cite web|first1=Andrea|last1=Mitchell|first2=Alexandra|last2=Jaffe|first3=Kelly|last3=O'Donnell|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-requests-security-clearance-son-law-jared-kushner-n684491|title=Donald Trump Requests Security Clearance for Son-in-Law Jared Kushner|website=NBC News|publisher=NBCUniversal|location=New York City|date=November 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116034157/http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-requests-security-clearance-son-law-jared-kushner-n684491 |archive-date=November 16, 2016}}

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On January 9, 2017, Kushner was named Senior Advisor to the President{{cite press release |last=Trump |first=Donald J. |date=January 9, 2017 |title=President-Elect Donald J. Trump Names Jared Kushner Senior Advisor to the President |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=120984 |location=N.Y.C. |publisher=GreatAgain |quote=Trump today announced Jared Kushner will serve as Senior Advisor to the President... Kushner, a widely respected businessman and real estate developer was instrumental in formulating and executing the strategy behind President-elect Trump's historic victory... |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622181821/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=120984 |archive-date=June 22, 2017}} (formally, "Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor").{{cite web |title=Executive Office of the President Annual Report To Congress On White House Office Personnel White House Office As Of: Friday, June 30, 2017 |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/disclosures/07012017-report-final.pdf |page=15 |access-date=June 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120195132/https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/docs/disclosures/07012017-report-final.pdf |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |via=National Archives |work=whitehouse.gov |url-status=live}} He consequently resigned as CEO of Kushner Companies, and as publisher of the Observer.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-steps-down-as-publisher-of-the-observer-2017-1|title=Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Will Step Down as Publisher of the Observer, and Have No 'Ownership Stake'|last=McAlone|first=Nathan|date=January 9, 2017|magazine=Business Insider|location=New York City|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170512112415/http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-steps-down-as-publisher-of-the-observer-2017-1|archive-date=May 12, 2017|url-status=live|access-date=January 28, 2017}}

After Donald Trump became President-elect, Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump met with the Japanese prime minister and other Japanese officials, while Ivanka was conducting a licensing deal between her namesake clothing brand and Sanei International, a company whose investors include the Japanese government's development bank.{{cite news |last1=Garcia |first1=Feliks |date=December 5, 2016 |title=Ivanka Trump's meeting with the Japanese prime minister looks even worse now |website=The Independent |location=New York |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ivanka-trump-japan-business-deal-donald-trump-shinzo-abe-prime-minister-a7457161.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204004640/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ivanka-trump-japan-business-deal-donald-trump-shinzo-abe-prime-minister-a7457161.html |archive-date=February 4, 2017}} Although negotiations around the deal had begun in 2015, well before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, Ivanka backed out of the deal to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. She sat in on a meeting between her father, then-president-elect Donald Trump, and Japan's prime minister, Shinzō Abe.{{cite magazine |last=John |first=Tara |date=December 5, 2016 |title=Ivanka Trump Had Business at Stake When She Met Japan's Prime Minister |url=http://fortune.com/2016/12/05/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-japan-shinzo-abe/ |url-status=live |magazine=Fortune |location=New York City |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204171648/http://fortune.com/2016/12/05/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-japan-shinzo-abe/ |archive-date=February 4, 2017}}

File:Angela Merkel, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump, March 2017.jpg in March 2017]]

Kushner helped broker the sale of $100+ billion of arms to Saudi Arabia, and during a meeting with Saudi officials at the White House to finalize the deal, he called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson to ask for a lower price on a radar system to detect ballistic missiles.{{cite news |last1=Schmitt |first1=Mark |last2=Landler |first2=Eric |last3=Apuzzo |first3=Matt |title=$110 Billion Weapons Sale to Saudis Has Jared Kushner's Personal Touch |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-lockheed.html |access-date=May 27, 2017 |work=The New York Times |location=New York City|date=May 18, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527011344/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-arms-deal-lockheed.html |archive-date=May 27, 2017}}

Kushner's business activities in China drew press scrutiny for mixing government with business.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525598501/watchdog-group-sees-conflicts-in-jared-kushners-vast-wealth-responsibilities |title=Watchdog Group Sees Conflicts in Jared Kushner's Vast Wealth, Responsibilities |last=Overby |first=Peter |date=April 25, 2017 |publisher=NPR|quote=By Democracy 21's analysis, Kushner faces two huge conflict-of-interest hurdles... The legal hurdle involves China... The federal conflict-of-interest laws cover not only Kushner's own holdings but also his spouse's holdings – in this case, trademarks and other business activities in China. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504085311/http://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525598501/watchdog-group-sees-conflicts-in-jared-kushners-vast-wealth-responsibilities |archive-date=May 4, 2017}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/us/politics/kushner-china-visa-eb-5.html |title=Kushner Family Stands to Gain From Visa Rules in Trump's First Major Law |first1=Eric |last1=Lipton |first2=Jesse |last2=Drucker |date=May 8, 2017 |work=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509060940/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/us/politics/kushner-china-visa-eb-5.html |archive-date=May 9, 2017}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card |title=Jared Kushner Is China's Trump Card |author=Adam Entous and Evan Osnos |date=January 29, 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker | location=New York City|access-date=January 25, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125002554/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card |archive-date=January 25, 2018}} Kushner's investments in real estate and financial services have also drawn controversy for conflicts of interest.{{cite news |last1=Drucker |first1=Jesse |last2=Lipton |first2=Eric |last3=Haberman |first3=Maggie |author-link3=Maggie Haberman|title=Trump's Family Still Benefiting from Businesses |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1 |date=April 1, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/politics/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-still-benefiting-from-business-empire-filings-show.html |quote=Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner ... will remain the beneficiaries of a sprawling real estate and investment business, ... according to ethics filings... The filing ... does not provide information on his business partners or lenders to his projects. His real estate firm has borrowed money from the likes of Goldman Sachs... |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508223906/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/politics/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-still-benefiting-from-business-empire-filings-show.html |archive-date=May 8, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/report-jared-kushner-failed-to-disclose-stake-in-startup.html |title=Jared Kushner Reportedly Failed to Disclose Stake in Start-up |first=Jen |last=Kirby |magazine=New York|date=May 2, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505032452/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/report-jared-kushner-failed-to-disclose-stake-in-startup.html |archive-date=May 5, 2017}} In May 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported that he had failed to disclose all required financial information in his security clearance applications, including that he owes $1 billion in loans.{{cite magazine |last1=Bondarenko |first1=Veronika |title=Jared Kushner didn't disclose business ties to George Soros, Peter Thiel, and Goldman Sachs, or that he owes $1 billion in loans |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-ties-george-soros-goldman-sachs-peter-thiel-1-billion-loan-2017-5 |magazine=Business Insider |location=New York City|access-date=May 2, 2017 |date=May 2, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502174455/http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-ties-george-soros-goldman-sachs-peter-thiel-1-billion-loan-2017-5 |archive-date=May 2, 2017}} While noting that “it is difficult to calculate net worth” using financial disclosure forms, the Washington Post estimated that during 2017, Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump made $82 million in outside income at the same time that they served as senior White House advisors.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trump-made-at-least-82-million-in-outside-income-last-year-while-serving-in-the-white-house-filings-show/2018/06/11/a41d0720-6dab-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html|title=Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump made at least $82 million in outside income last year while serving in the White House, filings show|date=June 11, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312202811/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushner-and-ivanka-trump-made-at-least-82-million-in-outside-income-last-year-while-serving-in-the-white-house-filings-show/2018/06/11/a41d0720-6dab-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html|archive-date=March 12, 2020}} Kushner and Ivanka's lawyers asserted that their net worth had largely remained the same.

In June 2017, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had implemented a naval blockade on Qatar, accusing them of aiding terrorist groups, and reportedly planned to invade Qatar.{{Cite web|date=August 1, 2018|first=Alex|last=Emmons|title=Saudi Arabia Planned to Invade Qatar Last Summer. Rex Tillerson's Efforts to Stop It May Have Cost Him His Job.|url=https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex-tillerson-qatar-saudi-uae/|access-date=July 23, 2021|website=The Intercept|language=en|archive-date=October 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013081531/https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex-tillerson-qatar-saudi-uae/|url-status=live}} During the dispute, Jared had backed the Saudis and Emiratis in the conflict, undermined efforts by then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to stop the blockade and to bring the conflict to a peaceful outcome, and pressured President Donald Trump to back the Emiratis and Saudis in the dispute, which the President did, according to the NYTimes.{{Cite news|last1=Landler|first1=Mark|last2=Harris|first2=Gardiner|date=June 9, 2017|title=Trump Team's Shifts Jolt Some Allies and Soothe Others|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/world/middleeast/rex-tillerson-calls-for-calm-in-middle-east-standoff-with-qatar.html|access-date=July 23, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111202716/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/world/middleeast/rex-tillerson-calls-for-calm-in-middle-east-standoff-with-qatar.html|url-status=live}}

In a statement, Abbe Lowell, Kushner's lawyer, admitted that Kushner had intermittently used private e-mail for official White House business. No classified or privileged information was used on this account. During the campaign for the 2016 presidential election, Trump repeatedly criticized his opponent Hillary Clinton for her use of personal e-mail in her role as Secretary of State, which involved the transmission of classified information over a server Clinton had set up in her basement.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41382495 |title=Kushner used private email account |date=September 25, 2017 |publisher=BBC News |location=London, England |access-date=September 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925001605/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41382495 |archive-date=September 25, 2017}}

In an HBO/Axios interview released in June 2019, Kushner denied that President Trump was a racist. When asked whether birther conspiracy theories about President Obama (which Trump pushed extensively for a number of years) were racist, Kushner did not answer, saying instead twice, "Look, I wasn't really involved in that."{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/03/jared-kushner-axios-birtherism-trump-defense-palestinians/|title='I wasn't involved in that': Kushner is mum on Trump's birther conspiracy theory|date=2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607171413/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/03/jared-kushner-axios-birtherism-trump-defense-palestinians/|archive-date=June 7, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/kushner-mbs-refugees-racism-trump-legacy-a92d1982-4b6f-4164-a0e0-57d0a746c68e.html|title=Exclusive: Jared Kushner on MBS, refugees, racism and Trump's legacy|website=Axios|date=June 3, 2019|language=en|access-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604232946/https://www.axios.com/kushner-mbs-refugees-racism-trump-legacy-a92d1982-4b6f-4164-a0e0-57d0a746c68e.html|archive-date=June 4, 2019|url-status=live}} In the interview, Kushner, whose grandparents survived the holocaust and later immigrated to America, spoke of his own family's immigration history: "It's a great reminder of how great this country is." In the same interview, he defended the Trump administration's decision to drastically reduce the number of refugees accepted by the United States (the lowest level in 40 years).{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-trump-refugee-asylum-cuts-immigration-c82460f1-d4d6-4bbf-bb00-e3d64a454915.html|title=Jared Kushner, the grandson of refugees, defends Trump's refugee cuts|website=Axios|date=June 2, 2019|language=en|access-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604091231/https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-trump-refugee-asylum-cuts-immigration-c82460f1-d4d6-4bbf-bb00-e3d64a454915.html|archive-date=June 4, 2019|url-status=live}}

In March 2020, the Associated Press reported that Kushner had sold stakes in a firm that had benefitted from the same Opportunity Zone tax breaks—incentives for new investment in low-income communities—that Kushner pushed for as a senior White House advisor.{{cite news|url=https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2020/03/jared-kushner-sells-stake-in-firm-that-benefited-from-trump-tax-breaks.html|title=Jared Kushner sells stake in firm that benefited from Trump tax breaks|agency=The Associated Press|date=March 3, 2020|website=Syracuse.com|language=en|access-date=March 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314180503/https://www.syracuse.com/us-news/2020/03/jared-kushner-sells-stake-in-firm-that-benefited-from-trump-tax-breaks.html|archive-date=March 14, 2020|url-status=live}}

From 2017 until the end of the Trump Administration in January 2021, Kushner directed the Office of American Innovation. The office, created by President Trump in March 2017, was to draw on the lessons of the private sector to solving problems in government, such as the federal government's IT spend, economic activity, and the opioid crisis.{{cite news |last1=Firozi |first1=Paulina |title=Kushner to lead White House innovation office: report |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/325869-kushner-to-lead-white-house-innovation-office-report/ |newspaper=The Hill|access-date=March 27, 2017 |date=March 26, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327132239/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/325869-kushner-to-lead-white-house-innovation-office-report |archive-date=March 27, 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Shieber |first1=Jonathan |title=Trump to create White House office for 'American Innovation' to be headed by Kushner |date=March 27, 2017 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/26/trump-to-create-white-house-office-for-american-innovation-to-be-headed-by-kushner/ |publisher=TechCrunch |access-date=March 27, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327070605/https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/26/trump-to-create-white-house-office-for-american-innovation-to-be-headed-by-kushner/ |archive-date=March 27, 2017}}{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/4800796/the-trials-of-jared-kushner/ |title=The Trials of Jared Kushner |first=Karl |last=Vick |magazine=Time|location=New York City|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601144749/http://time.com/4800796/the-trials-of-jared-kushner/ |archive-date=June 1, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Scola |first1=Nancy |title=What Jared's office actually does |url=https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/07/01/jared-kushner-office-american-innovation-000470/ |access-date=23 July 2024 |work=Politico |date=2017-07-01}}

Kushner was reportedly an influential factor behind the firing of New Jersey governor Chris Christie as head of the transition team, as well as the dismissal from the Donald Trump transition team of anyone connected to Christie.{{cite web |date=November 15, 2016 |title=Trump Transition Shake-Up Part of 'Stalinesque Purge' of Christie Loyalists |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-transition-shake-part-stalinesque-purge-christie-loyalists-n684081 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115151719/http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-transition-shake-part-stalinesque-purge-christie-loyalists-n684081 |archive-date=November 15, 2016 |publisher=NBC News}}{{cite web |date=November 15, 2016 |title=Why Mike Rogers' Departure from the Trump Team Alarming |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/11/15/why-mike-rogerss-departure-from-the-trump-team-is-alarming |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116150108/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/11/15/why-mike-rogerss-departure-from-the-trump-team-is-alarming/ |archive-date=November 16, 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} An anonymous source familiar with the transition told Politico, "Jared doesn't like Christie... He's always held [the prosecution of his father] against Christie."{{cite web |title=Trump team rivalries spark infighting |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-team-rivals-231277 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118212223/http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-team-rivals-231277 |archive-date=November 18, 2016 |access-date=November 21, 2016 |website=Politico |date=November 11, 2016 |location=Arlington, Virginia}} Kushner told Forbes that the reports that he was involved in Christie's dismissal were false: "Six months ago, Governor Christie and I decided this election was much bigger than any differences we may have had in the past, and we worked very well together. ... I was not behind pushing out him or his people."{{cite magazine |last=Bertoni |first=Steven |date=November 22, 2016 |title=Exclusive Interview: How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/ |magazine=Forbes |location=New York City |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122135145/http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/ |archive-date=November 22, 2016}} In his memoir Christie said that Steve Bannon fired him at Trump Tower but that Kushner had his firing ordered as revenge for what Christie had done to Kushner's father Charles Kushner for several felonies.{{Cite news |last=Victor |first=Daniel |date=January 30, 2019 |title=Chris Christie Says Jared Kushner's Father Committed a 'Loathsome' Crime |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/politics/chris-christie-charles-kushner.html |access-date=December 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407230707/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/politics/chris-christie-charles-kushner.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last1=Davis |first1=Julie Hirschfeld |last2=Mazzetti |first2=Mark |last3=Haberman |first3=Maggie |date=November 15, 2016 |title=Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html |access-date=December 3, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116034649/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html |url-status=live }}

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Kushner's contacts with Russian officials came under scrutiny as part of the larger federal investigation into Russian interference in the election.{{cite web |last1=Keneally |first1=Meghan |date=May 26, 2017 |title=Scrutiny of Jared Kushner's Russia contacts brings the probe to Trump's inner circle |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scrutiny-jared-kushners-russia-contacts-brings-probe-trumps/story?id=47657212 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170526185943/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scrutiny-jared-kushners-russia-contacts-brings-probe-trumps/story?id=47657212 |archive-date=May 26, 2017 |access-date=May 27, 2017 |publisher=ABC News}} Before meeting with the Senate and House intelligence committees, Kushner delivered an 11-page document describing his contacts with Russian figures during the campaign and after the election. The Wall Street Journal called it "comprehensive disclosure" and said it "introduced a useful precedent to the Trump presidency"{{Cite news |author=The Editorial Board |date=July 24, 2017 |title=The Kushner Statement |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-kushner-statement-1500939259 |access-date=June 9, 2022 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=June 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609203912/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-kushner-statement-1500939259 |url-status=live }}

Kushner has said he had four meetings with Russians during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition, and that none of those Russian contacts were improper.{{cite news |last=Jamieson |first=Aliestair |date=July 24, 2017 |title=Jared Kushner Says 'I Did Not Collude' With Any Foreign Government |publisher=NBC News |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/jared-kushner-says-i-did-not-collude-foreign-governments-n785831 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724110016/http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/jared-kushner-says-i-did-not-collude-foreign-governments-n785831 |archive-date=July 24, 2017}}

In June 2016, an agent of Emin Agalarov reportedly offered Donald Trump Jr., Kushner's brother-in-law, compromising information on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government if he met with a lawyer connected to the Kremlin.{{cite news |last1=Matt Apuzzo |author1-link=Matt Apuzzo |last2=Jo Becker |author2-link=Jo Becker |last3=Adam Goldman |author3-link=Adam Goldman |last4=Maggie Haberman |author4-link=Maggie Haberman |date=July 11, 2017 |title=Trump's Son Heard of Link To Moscow Before Meeting – Russian Government Sought to Help Father and Hurt Clinton, Email Suggested |page=A1 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-russia-email-candidacy.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711011045/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-russia-email-candidacy.html |archive-date=July 11, 2017}} A meeting took place on June 9, 2016, and included Kushner, Trump Jr., and Paul Manafort, who was then chairman of the presidential campaign, who met with Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower.{{cite news |last1=Jo Becker |author1-link=Jo Becker |last2=Matt Apuzzo |author2-link=Matt Apuzzo |last3=Adam Goldman |author3-link=Adam Goldman |date=July 10, 2017 |title=Trump Team Met Russian Offering Dirt on Clinton – Key Time in Campaign – Account Shows an Inner Circle Open to Using Foreign Help |page=A1 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711011757/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html |archive-date=July 11, 2017}} According to Rinat Akhmetshin, who was also present at the meeting, Veselnitskaya claimed to have evidence of "violations of Russian law by a Democratic donor", and that the "Russian lawyer described her findings at the meeting and left a document about them with Trump Jr. and the others".{{cite web |last1=Rosalind S. Helderman |last2=Tom Hamburger |date=July 14, 2017 |title=Russian American lobbyist was present at Trump Jr.'s meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/russian-american-lobbyist-was-present-at-trump-jrs-meeting-with-kremlin-connected-lawyer/2017/07/14/1b96f25a-68aa-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714212522/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/russian-american-lobbyist-was-present-at-trump-jrs-meeting-with-kremlin-connected-lawyer/2017/07/14/1b96f25a-68aa-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html |archive-date=July 14, 2017 |access-date=July 14, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post}} According to the Mueller Report, Kushner arrived at the meeting and quickly grew aggravated, texting Paul Manafort that it was a “waste of time,” and emailing two different assistants to call him so he would have an excuse to leave the meeting. Investigators did not identify any follow up from the meeting.{{Cite web |date=March 1, 2019 |title=Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election. Volume I and II. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III. |url=https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download |access-date=October 6, 2022 |website=United States Department of Justice |archive-date=September 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923134000/https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download |url-status=live }} The Democratic National Committee cyber attacks were revealed later that week.

Between April and November 2016, Kushner had two undisclosed phone calls with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak.{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=Ned |last2=Landay |first2=Jonathan |date=May 27, 2017 |title=Exclusive: Trump son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with Russian envoy – sources |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018 |url-status=live |access-date=May 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527005840/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018 |archive-date=May 27, 2017}} (In May 2017, Kushner's attorney Jamie Gorelick told Reuters that Kushner had participated in "thousands of calls in this time period" and did not recall any with Kislyak.) In December 2016, Kushner met with Kislyak. That month, U.S. intelligence officials who were monitoring Kislyak reportedly overheard him relaying to Moscow a request from Kushner to establish a "secret and secure communications channel" with the Kremlin using Russian diplomatic facilities. Kislyak reportedly was "taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an American to use Russian communications gear at its embassy or consulate – a proposal that would have carried security risks for Moscow as well as the Trump team".{{cite news |last1=Nakashima |first1=Ellen |last2=Entous |first2=Adam |last3=Miller |first3=Greg |date=May 26, 2017 |title=Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-ambassador-told-moscow-that-kushner-wanted-secret-communications-channel-with-kremlin/2017/05/26/520a14b4-422d-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html |url-status=live |access-date=May 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527001215/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-ambassador-told-moscow-that-kushner-wanted-secret-communications-channel-with-kremlin/2017/05/26/520a14b4-422d-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html |archive-date=May 27, 2017 |quote=Ambassador Sergey Kislyak reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, son-in-law and confidant to then-President-elect Trump, made the proposal during a meeting on Dec. 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials. Kislyak said Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications.}}{{cite news |last1=Haberman |first1=Maggie |last2=Mazzetti |first2=Mark |last3=Apuzzo |first3=Matt |date=May 26, 2017 |title=Kushner Is Said to Have Discussed a Secret Channel to Talk to Russia |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/politics/kushner-talked-to-russian-envoy-about-creating-secret-channel-with-kremlin.html |url-status=live |access-date=May 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527034930/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/politics/kushner-talked-to-russian-envoy-about-creating-secret-channel-with-kremlin.html |archive-date=May 27, 2017}}

Also in December 2016, Kushner met with Sergey N. Gorkov, a trained Russian spy who then headed Vnesheconombank (VEB), a Russian state-owned bank.{{cite web |last=Ferris-Rotman |first=Amie |title=Why Did Russia Send Sergei Gorkov to Meet With Jared Kushner? |date=July 25, 2017 |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/25/why-did-russia-send-sergei-gorkov-to-meet-with-jared-kushner/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043534/https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/25/why-did-russia-send-sergei-gorkov-to-meet-with-jared-kushner/ |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |access-date=March 2, 2019}}{{cite web |last=Luhn |first=Alec |date=June 3, 2017 |title=Who is Sergei Gorkov, the powerful Russian banker who met Jared Kushner? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/03/sergei-gorkov-russian-banker-jared-kushner |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044210/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/03/sergei-gorkov-russian-banker-jared-kushner |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |access-date=March 2, 2019 |website=theguardian.com}} Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Kushner met with Gorkov briefly as part of his role in the transition, and as a diplomatic conduit to the State Department.{{cite web |last1=Pavia |first1=Will |date=May 25, 2017 |title=Kushner's Kremlin connection focus |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/jared-kushner-named-as-person-of-interest-in-russia-probe/news-story/bd81a5a645f7138c6ad8f30fbffe5d80 |access-date=May 26, 2017 |work=The Australian}} However, VEB has stated that Gorkov met with Kushner on a private matter concerning his family's real estate corporation, Kushner Companies, even though VEB has been under international sanctions since July 2014.{{cite web |last1=Dilanian |first1=Ken |last2=Alexander |first2=Peter |last3=Kube |first3=Courtney |date=May 25, 2017 |title=Jared Kushner under FBI scrutiny in Russia probe, say officials |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jared-kushner-now-under-fbi-scrutiny-russia-probe-say-officials-n764826 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525234146/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jared-kushner-now-under-fbi-scrutiny-russia-probe-say-officials-n764826 |archive-date=May 25, 2017 |access-date=May 26, 2017 |publisher=NBC News}} The Mueller investigation examined this meeting and could not confirm VEB's account. The Mueller report did state, however, that it was unable to find evidence that there was any follow up between Kushner and Gorkov after the meeting.

In July 2017, Kushner appeared before both the House and Senate intelligence committees in closed session as part of their investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.{{cite web |date=July 21, 2017 |title=Jared Kushner agrees to appear before House Intelligence Committee |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jared-kushner-agrees-house-intelligence-committee/story?id=48776109 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203224453/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jared-kushner-agrees-house-intelligence-committee/story?id=48776109 |archive-date=December 3, 2017 |access-date=December 2, 2017 |publisher=ABC News}} He also released a public statement.{{cite web |date=July 24, 2017 |title=Jared Kushner's Statement To Congress About Russia, Annotated |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/539022904/jared-kushner-s-statement-to-congress-about-russia-annotated |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129171922/https://www.npr.org/2017/07/24/539022904/jared-kushner-s-statement-to-congress-about-russia-annotated |archive-date=November 29, 2017 |access-date=December 2, 2017 |publisher=NPR}} In October 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee requested numerous documents from Kushner. Kushner's attorneys gave the committee many documents on November 3, but the committee followed up on November 16 with a request for many additional documents it said had not been produced.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Allan |date=November 16, 2017 |title=The Senate Judiciary Committee sent Jared Kushner a big request for documents he has refused to provide |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/senate-judiciary-committee-jared-kushner-document-request-2017-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203224430/http://www.businessinsider.com/senate-judiciary-committee-jared-kushner-document-request-2017-11 |archive-date=December 3, 2017 |access-date=December 2, 2017 |work=Business Insider}}

In early November 2017, Kushner was interviewed by investigators from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office. Reportedly the interview focused on former national security advisor Michael Flynn.{{cite web |last=Martinez |first=Peter |date=November 29, 2017 |title=Jared Kushner interviewed by special counsel's office |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-interviewed-special-counsel-robert-mueller/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203074613/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-interviewed-special-counsel-robert-mueller/ |archive-date=December 3, 2017 |access-date=December 2, 2017 |publisher=CBS News}} On December 1, Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI, as part of a plea bargain. Bloomberg reported that Kushner is most likely the "senior member of the Trump transition team," mentioned in Flynn's plea documents, who is said to have ordered Flynn to contact Russia.{{cite web |date=December 1, 2017 |title=Kushner Is Said to Have Ordered Flynn to Contact Russia |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-01/kushner-is-said-to-have-ordered-flynn-to-contact-russia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101103257/https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-01/kushner-is-said-to-have-ordered-flynn-to-contact-russia |archive-date=January 1, 2018 |access-date=December 1, 2017 |publisher=Bloomberg}}

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Mueller investigated meetings between Trump associates including Kushner and George Nader, an emissary representing the crown princes of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia. In August 2016, Nader offered help to the Trump presidential campaign."[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613204813/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html|date=June 13, 2018}}". The New York Times. May 19, 2018. In December 2016, Nader attended a New York meeting between the United Arab Emirates officials and Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon.Shimon Prokupecz, Kara Scannell and Sara Murray [https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/06/politics/george-nader-robert-mueller/index.html 'Man of mystery' cooperates with Mueller in Russia probe] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140959/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/06/politics/george-nader-robert-mueller/index.html|date=June 12, 2018}} CNN, March 7, 2018 Mueller also investigated Kushner's possible ties to Qatar, Israel and China.{{cite web |date=March 8, 2018 |title=It's Not Just a "Russia" Investigation Anymore |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/mueller-investigation-spreads-to-qatar-israel-uae-china-turkey.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180609055955/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/mueller-investigation-spreads-to-qatar-israel-uae-china-turkey.html |archive-date=June 9, 2018 |work=Slate}} Two months after the Mueller report was released, Kushner's top secret security clearance was permanently restored.

Since the electoral defeat of his father-in-law, Donald J. Trump, Kushner has stayed active in the region through a nonprofit organization he established. He took a special interest in the petroleum-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Kushner attempted to raise money from the Persian Gulf states for a new investment firm he has founded.{{cite news |title=Seeking Backers for New Fund, Jared Kushner Turns to Middle East |work=The New York Times |date=November 26, 2021 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/politics/kushner-investment-middle-east.html |last1=Kelly |first1=Kate |last2=Kirkpatrick |first2=David D. |last3=Rappeport |first3=Alan |access-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127033918/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/politics/kushner-investment-middle-east.html/ |url-status=live }}

The transcript of Kushner's interview with FBI investigators was not publicly released in January 2020 as ordered by a federal judge, as the Justice Department stated it required a security review by an unnamed intelligence agency.{{cite news |title=Kushner's FBI interviews to be held for review, Justice Department says |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/kushner-documents-fbi/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203220225/https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/22/politics/kushner-documents-fbi/index.html |archive-date=February 3, 2020}} The transcript was released on February 3, redacted nearly in its entirety.{{cite news |title=Justice Department releases more Mueller documents to CNN and BuzzFeed |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/politics/mueller-documents-witnesses-cnn-buzzfeed/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204192140/https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/politics/mueller-documents-witnesses-cnn-buzzfeed/index.html |archive-date=February 4, 2020}}{{cite web |title=Jason Leopold on Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1224446922749906952 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204101333/https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1224446922749906952 |archive-date=February 4, 2020 |access-date=February 3, 2020}}

In June 2019, Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Community made a criminal referral of Kushner to federal prosecutors on concerns that his testimony was contradicted by Richard Gates, a former Trump campaign aides, although the referral did not accuse Kushner of making false statements.{{cite web |title=Senate committee made criminal referral of Trump Jr., Bannon, and Kushner |date=August 18, 2020 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/senate-made-criminal-referral-trump-jr-bannon-kushner-two-others-n1237155 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114193823/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/senate-made-criminal-referral-trump-jr-bannon-kushner-two-others-n1237155 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |access-date=August 19, 2020 |publisher=NBC News |language=en}}File:Embassy Dedication Ceremony (28279991058).jpg in Jerusalem, May 2018]]

Kushner was a strong supporter within the Trump administration for the bipartisan criminal justice reform bill Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act (FIRST STEP ACT, {{USBill|115|HR|5682}}) which President Trump signed into law in December 2018.{{cite web|url=https://judiciary.house.gov/press-release/house-judiciary-committee-approves-bill-to-reform-the-federal-prison-system/|title=House Judiciary Committee Approves Bill to Reform the Federal Prison System – House Judiciary Committee|work=House Judiciary Committee |access-date=June 2, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614194458/https://judiciary.house.gov/press-release/house-judiciary-committee-approves-bill-to-reform-the-federal-prison-system/|archive-date=June 14, 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/prison-reform-house-judiciary/index.html|title=House panel advances bill to improve US prisons|first=Eli|last=Watkins|publisher=CNN|location=Atlanta, Georgia|date=May 9, 2018|access-date=June 2, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519130550/https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/politics/prison-reform-house-judiciary/index.html|archive-date=May 19, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://politi.co/2moHMNp|title=Trump snubs Jared Kushner's signature accomplishment|last1=Orr|first1=Gabby|last2=Lippman|first2=Daniel|website=Politico|date=September 29, 2019|publisher=Capitol News Company|location=Arlington, Virginia|language=en|access-date=March 19, 2020|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220811/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/trump-kushner-criminal-justice-snub-1507285|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Karni|first=Annie|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/us/politics/jared-kushner-criminal-justice-bill.html|title=The Senate Passed the Criminal Justice Bill. For Jared Kushner, It's a Personal Issue and a Rare Victory.|date=December 14, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 19, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200309125357/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/us/politics/jared-kushner-criminal-justice-bill.html|archive-date=March 9, 2020|url-status=live}} The legislation implemented several reforms to America's prison and criminal justice systems, reducing sentences for certain non-violent offenders and improving prison programs to reduce recidivism, among other priorities.{{Cite web |last= |last2= |title=How the FIRST STEP Act Became Law — and What Happens Next {{!}} Brennan Center for Justice |url=https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-first-step-act-became-law-and-what-happens-next |access-date=September 8, 2022 |website=www.brennancenter.org |date=June 23, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908221555/https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-first-step-act-became-law-and-what-happens-next |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=January 13, 2022 |title=Justice Department Announces New Rule Implementing Federal Time Credits Program Established by the First Step Act |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-new-rule-implementing-federal-time-credits-program-established |access-date=September 8, 2022 |website=www.justice.gov |language=en |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908221612/https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-new-rule-implementing-federal-time-credits-program-established |url-status=live }} In announcing his support for the bill, Trump argued that it would “make our communities safer and give former inmates a second chance at life. According to reporting by Axios in 2020, Trump expressed regrets in private about having followed Jared Kushner's lead in going through with the First Step Act.{{cite web|last=Swan|first=Jonathan|title=Scoop: Trump regrets following Jared Kushner's advice on prison reform|url=https://www.axios.com/trump-kushner-second-thoughts-408d5a33-725d-442a-88e4-d6ab6742c139.html|access-date=July 3, 2020|website=Axios|date=July 2020|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702232603/https://www.axios.com/trump-kushner-second-thoughts-408d5a33-725d-442a-88e4-d6ab6742c139.html|archive-date=July 2, 2020|url-status=live}}

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Trump put Kushner in charge of brokering peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, despite the fact that Kushner had no foreign experience or experience in the Middle East.{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Jared-Kushner-will-broker-Middle-East-peace-at-the-White-House-says-Trump-478554|title=Trump: Jared Kushner will 'broker Mideast peace' for the White House|work=The Jerusalem Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406132240/http://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Jared-Kushner-will-broker-Middle-East-peace-at-the-White-House-says-Trump-478554|archive-date=April 6, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trump-wants-ivanka-jared-kushner-involved-in-administration-w455105|title=Trump: I'd 'Love' to Have Ivanka Involved in Administration|work=Us Magazine|date=December 11, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203162930/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/donald-trump-wants-ivanka-jared-kushner-involved-in-administration-w455105|archive-date=February 3, 2017}}Karni, Annie. [http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/jared-kushners-mission-impossible-214770 "Jared Kushner's Mission Impossible."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406000333/http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/jared-kushners-mission-impossible-214770|date=April 6, 2017}} Politico. February 11, 2017. April 5, 2017. On August 24, 2017, Kushner traveled to Israel to talk to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/white-house-envoy-jared-kushner-begins-mideast-peace-push|title=White House envoy Jared Kushner begins Mideast peace push|date=August 24, 2017|publisher=Fox News Channel|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170901051413/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/24/white-house-envoy-jared-kushner-begins-mideast-peace-push.html|archive-date=September 1, 2017}} (with whom Kushner has longstanding personal links and family ties, causing Palestinians to distrust him{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/lets-just-not-say-it-jared-kushner-says-two-state-label-hinders-middle-east-talks|title='Let's just not say it': Jared Kushner says 'two-state' label hinders Middle East talks|date=May 3, 2019|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=May 3, 2019|agency=Agence France-Presse|quote=Kushner, who is also widely distrusted by the Palestinians for his family ties to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ...|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503055811/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/03/lets-just-not-say-it-jared-kushner-says-two-state-label-hinders-middle-east-talks|archive-date=May 3, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news|author=Daniel Estrin|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-son-in-laws-ties-to-israel-raise-questions-of-bias/|title=Trump son-in-law's ties to Israel raise questions of bias|date=March 25, 2017|newspaper=The Times of Israel|access-date=May 3, 2019|quote=Jared Kushner's personal links to Netanyahu, and his family's deals with major Israeli companies, could undermine US Mideast peace efforts ... Kushner and his family also have longstanding personal ties to Netanyahu. At a White House news conference last month, Netanyahu joked that he has known Kushner since he was a boy.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424212254/https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-son-in-laws-ties-to-israel-raise-questions-of-bias/|archive-date=April 24, 2019|url-status=live}}). He then traveled to Palestine to meet President Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to restart a peace process in the Middle East.

Donald Trump formally unveiled a plan authored by Kushner in a White House press conference alongside Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on January 28, 2020; while representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Oman attended the event. Palestinian representatives were not invited.{{cite news|url=https://www.dw.com/en/trump-reveals-israeli-palestinian-peace-plan/a-52179629|title=Trump reveals Israeli-Palestinian peace plan|date=January 28, 2020|access-date=January 29, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129053628/https://www.dw.com/en/trump-reveals-israeli-palestinian-peace-plan/a-52179629|archive-date=January 29, 2020|publisher=Deutsche Welle}} In an interview, Kushner said he had "been studying this now for three years", and that he had "read 25 books on it, I've spoken to every leader in the region, I've spoken to everyone who's been involved in this."{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-says-hes-read-25-books-about-israel-palestine-2020-1|title=Jared Kushner says he's read 25 books about the Israel-Palestine conflict|last=Relman|first=Eliza|website=Business Insider|access-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319015159/https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-says-hes-read-25-books-about-israel-palestine-2020-1|archive-date=March 19, 2020|url-status=live}} The plan, which was endorsed by the Israeli government, offered the Palestinians a conditional path to an independent state with defined borders. It has been characterized as requiring too few concessions from the Israelis and imposing too harsh requirements on the Palestinians.{{cite web|url=http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2020/03/05/will-the-peace-plan-bring-peace/|title=Will the Peace Plan Bring Peace?|date=March 5, 2020|website=Political Violence at a Glance|language=en-US|access-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319015203/http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2020/03/05/will-the-peace-plan-bring-peace/|archive-date=March 19, 2020|url-status=live}} Both the West Bank settlers' Yesha Council{{cite news|last=Magid|first=Jacob|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/settler-leaders-call-on-pm-to-oppose-trump-plan-even-at-the-cost-of-annexation/|title=Settler leaders call on PM to oppose Trump plan, even at the cost of annexation|date=January 28, 2020|work=The Times of Israel|access-date=January 29, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129151556/https://www.timesofisrael.com/settler-leaders-call-on-pm-to-oppose-trump-plan-even-at-the-cost-of-annexation/|archive-date=January 29, 2020}} and the Palestinian leadership rejected the plan: the former because it proposed a path to a Palestinian state, the latter arguing it is too biased in favor of Israel. Reaction was muted among the Arab states, although Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon issued statements expressing appreciation for the effort. The proposal gave American approval for Israel to annex its settlements in the West Bank, contingent on Israel and the United States agreeing to a concrete map for the contested areas within the West Bank and Jerusalem.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/world/middleeast/trump-peace-plan-explained.html|title=What to Know About Trump's Middle East Plan|first=Megan|last=Specia|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 29, 2020|access-date=August 24, 2020|archive-date=November 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115060304/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/world/middleeast/trump-peace-plan-explained.html|url-status=live}}

After Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States, wrote a June 2020 opinion piece warning that annexation of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank would threaten better relations between Israel and the Arab world, Kushner saw an opportunity and stepped in to facilitate talks.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/trump-israel-united-arab-emirates-uae.html|title=Israel and United Arab Emirates Strike Major Diplomatic Agreement|first1=Peter|last1=Baker|first2=Isabel|last2=Kershner|first3=David D.|last3=Kirkpatrick|first4=Ronen|last4=Bergman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 13, 2020|access-date=August 15, 2020|archive-date=August 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813152005/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/us/politics/trump-israel-united-arab-emirates-uae.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/world/middleeast/israel-uae-netanyahu-arabs.html|title=Shifting Dynamics of the Mideast Pushed Israel and U.A.E. Together|first1=David M.|last1=Halbfinger|first2=Ronen|last2=Bergman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 15, 2020|access-date=August 24, 2020|archive-date=August 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823210836/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/world/middleeast/israel-uae-netanyahu-arabs.html|url-status=live}} The talks led to the August establishment of diplomatic ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Felicia |title=Israel, U.A.E. Agree to Establish Formal Diplomatic Ties |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-united-arab-emirates-agree-to-establish-formal-diplomatic-relationship-11597333313 |website=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=August 15, 2020 |date=August 14, 2020 |archive-date=August 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815174017/https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-united-arab-emirates-agree-to-establish-formal-diplomatic-relationship-11597333313 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Banco |first1=Erin |title=Jared Kushner Is Working On More MidEast Pacts With Israel |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jared-kushner-is-working-on-more-mideast-pacts-with-israel/ar-BB17W024?li=BBnbcA1 |publisher=MSN |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=August 15, 2020 |date=August 14, 2020 |quote="for all the intentional focus by the White House on the president Thursday, senior administration officials say it was Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner who worked behind the scenes over the last several months to smooth out the agreement and convince Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed (MBZ) to agree to it publicly in the lead up to the 2020 election. Thursday's announcement is an extension of a years-long effort by Kushner to construct a working Middle East Peace Plan, an accord formally announced by President Trump in January" |archive-date=October 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018221806/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jared-kushner-is-working-on-more-mideast-pacts-with-israel/ar-BB17W024?li=BBnbcA1 |url-status=live}} normalizing what had long been informal relations between the two countries{{Cite news|last=Halbfinger|first=David M.|date=August 13, 2020|title=Netanyahu Drops Troubled Annexation Plan for Diplomatic Gain|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/world/middleeast/israel-uae-annexation.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115060227/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/world/middleeast/israel-uae-annexation.html|archive-date=November 15, 2020|access-date=September 16, 2020}} and ultimately becoming the first Abraham Accord, which was the first normalization agreement between Israel and an Arab country since it normalized relations with Jordan in 1994.{{cite news|date=August 15, 2020|title=How the Abraham Accord Might Impact the Middle East|publisher=VOA News|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east_how-abraham-accord-might-impact-middle-east/6194454.html|url-status=live|access-date=September 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912230758/https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/how-abraham-accord-might-impact-middle-east|archive-date=September 12, 2020}}{{Cite news|date=August 13, 2020|title=Israel and UAE strike historic deal to normalise relations|language=en-GB|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53770859|access-date=April 7, 2021|archive-date=August 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813152232/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53770859|url-status=live}} As part of the agreement, Netanyahu suspended the annexation of West Bank settlements, which the Kushner peace plan had approved months earlier.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/world/middleeast/israel-uae-annexation.html|title=Netanyahu Drops Troubled Annexation Plan for Diplomatic Gain|first=David M.|last=Halbfinger|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 13, 2020|access-date=September 16, 2020|archive-date=June 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628024022/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/world/middleeast/israel-uae-annexation.html|url-status=live}} The first commercial flight from Israel to the UAE later arrived in Abu Dhabi with a U.S.-Israeli delegation led by Kushner.{{cite news |title=US delegation leads historic flight from Israel to UAE to discuss new ties |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-delegation-leads-historic-flight-israel-uae-discuss/story?id=72727105 |publisher=ABC News |date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=September 8, 2020 |archive-date=September 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200908025459/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-delegation-leads-historic-flight-israel-uae-discuss/story?id=72727105 |url-status=live}}

Hours after the August 13 announcement of the U.S.-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, senior Bahraini officials called Kushner with a message: "We want to be next".{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/behind-scenes-us-brokered-bahrain-israel-deal-44d1a7d3-a93c-4eee-970e-1e354f314cf7.html|title=Behind the scenes of the U.S.- brokered Israel-Bahrain agreement|website=Axios|date=September 11, 2020|language=en-US|access-date=October 28, 2020|archive-date=January 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111002136/https://www.axios.com/behind-scenes-us-brokered-bahrain-israel-deal-44d1a7d3-a93c-4eee-970e-1e354f314cf7.html|url-status=live}} Over the next 29 days Kushner and aide Avi Berkowitz negotiated, and traveled to Bahrain, before closing the deal on September 11, 2020, in a call between Trump, Netanyahu and the king of Bahrain.

All three countries officially committed to the deals on September 15, 2020, with the signing of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House.{{cite news |last1=PTI |title=Israel, UAE and Bahrain sign Abraham Accord; Trump says "dawn of new Middle East" |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-uae-and-bahrain-sign-abraham-accord-trump-says-dawn-of-new-middle-east/article32616867.ece |access-date=October 28, 2020 |work=The Hindu |date=September 16, 2020 |language=en-IN |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919233123/https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-uae-and-bahrain-sign-abraham-accord-trump-says-dawn-of-new-middle-east/article32616867.ece |url-status=live }}

On September 4, 2020, Kosovo, a Muslim-majority country, announced that it intended to normalize relations with Israel as part of an economic agreement the United States had brokered between it and Serbia. The negotiations were led by Ric Grenell, special envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations, with support from Kushner.{{Cite news |last=Reichmann |first=Deb |date=September 4, 2020 |title=Serbia, Kosovo normalize economic ties, gesture to Israel |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kosovo-serbia-normalize-economic-ties-gesture-to-israel/2020/09/04/f803b83c-eec5-11ea-bd08-1b10132b458f_story.html |access-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925030212/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kosovo-serbia-normalize-economic-ties-gesture-to-israel/2020/09/04/f803b83c-eec5-11ea-bd08-1b10132b458f_story.html |url-status=live }}

On October 23, 2020, Israel and Sudan agreed to normalize ties, making Sudan the third Arab country to set aside hostilities in two months.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-announcement-idUSKBN27827T|title=Israel, Sudan agree to normalize ties with U.S. help: joint statement|work=Reuters|date=October 23, 2020|language=en-US|access-date=October 28, 2020|last1=Holland|first1=Steve|archive-date=October 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020141622/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sudan-israel-announcement-idUSKBN27827T|url-status=live}} The agreement was negotiated on the U.S. side by Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner, Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz, national security adviser Robert O'Brien, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security official Miguel Correa.

On December 10, 2020, President Trump announced that Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco agreed to establish full diplomatic relations.{{cite web|url=https://www.apnews.com/article/donald-trump-africa-israel-north-africa-morocco-4279242f6f688d242bad5c7a64e29caf|title=Israel, Morocco to normalize ties; shifts W Sahara policy|website=Associated Press|date=December 10, 2020|agency=AP News|language=en-US|access-date=December 12, 2020|archive-date=December 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211070147/https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-africa-israel-north-africa-morocco-4279242f6f688d242bad5c7a64e29caf|url-status=live}} The agreement was negotiated by Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Avi Berkowitz and marked Kushner and Berkowitz's fourth normalization agreement in as many months.{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/morocco-israel-deal-trump-recognize-western-sahara-a8685253-2b7b-4682-88c9-f3b85bbede68.html|title=Morocco to normalize ties with Israel in deal with Trump over Western Sahara|website=Axios|date=December 10, 2020|language=en-US|access-date=December 12, 2020|archive-date=December 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211111141/https://www.axios.com/morocco-israel-deal-trump-recognize-western-sahara-a8685253-2b7b-4682-88c9-f3b85bbede68.html|url-status=live}} As a component of the deal, the United States agreed to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara.{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/trump-morocco-israel-inhofe-cc6e66a4-cd1b-4c08-9126-0c3e608b38fb.html|title=Scoop: Fallout between Trump and top GOP senator made Morocco-Israel deal possible|website=Axios|date=December 11, 2020|language=en-US|access-date=December 12, 2020|archive-date=December 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219121537/https://www.axios.com/trump-morocco-israel-inhofe-cc6e66a4-cd1b-4c08-9126-0c3e608b38fb.html|url-status=live}}

On November 30, 2020, Kushner and Berkowitz traveled to Saudi Arabia for negotiations on the Qatar diplomatic crisis.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-usa-kushner/trump-senior-aide-kushner-and-team-heading-to-saudi-arabia-qatar-idUSKBN2890VJ|title=Trump senior aide Kushner and team heading to Saudi Arabia, Qatar|work=Reuters|date=November 30, 2020|language=en-US|access-date=December 24, 2020|last1=Holland|first1=Steve|archive-date=December 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214104136/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-usa-kushner/trump-senior-aide-kushner-and-team-heading-to-saudi-arabia-qatar-idUSKBN2890VJ|url-status=live}} The next day, Kushner continued to Qatar, but left Berkowitz in Saudi Arabia so the duo could continue to mediate the deal between the Saudis and the Qataris over the phone in real time.{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/gulf-crisis-saudi-qatar-kushner-a841850a-4fc6-4f6a-965a-628a03b9ad23.html%C2%A0|title=Saudi Arabia, Qatar to sign U.S.-brokered deal to ease Gulf crisis|website=Axios|date=January 4, 2021|language=en-US|access-date=January 4, 2021|archive-date=January 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111151350/https://www.axios.com/gulf-crisis-saudi-qatar-kushner-a841850a-4fc6-4f6a-965a-628a03b9ad23.html%C2%A0|url-status=live}} The negotiations led to a breakthrough,{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/saudi-arabia-qatar-deal-end-blockade-kushner-talks-05495774-ad70-4134-a9e8-b324e08cdb75.html|title=Saudi Arabia and Qatar near deal to end standoff, sources say|website=Axios|date=December 4, 2020|language=en-US|access-date=December 28, 2020|archive-date=December 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221052931/https://www.axios.com/saudi-arabia-qatar-deal-end-blockade-kushner-talks-05495774-ad70-4134-a9e8-b324e08cdb75.html|url-status=live}} and on January 5, 2021, Kushner and Berkowitz attended the GCC Summit in Saudi Arabia, where the parties signed an agreement ending the Qatar diplomatic crisis.{{cite web|url= https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-arabia-lifts-blockade-qatar-breakthrough-agreement-eases-gulf-crisis-n1250102|title= Saudi Arabia lifts blockade of Qatar in breakthrough agreement easing Gulf crisis|date= January 5, 2021|publisher= NBC News|language= en-US|access-date= January 5, 2021|archive-date= January 5, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210105204838/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-arabia-lifts-blockade-qatar-breakthrough-agreement-eases-gulf-crisis-n1250102|url-status= live}} For his efforts in the Middle East, Kushner has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.{{Cite web |date=February 14, 2022 |title=Jared Kushner nominated for Nobel Peace Prize again |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jared-kushner-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-b2014769.html |access-date=September 8, 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=September 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908222431/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jared-kushner-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-b2014769.html |url-status=live }}

Years later, Kushner was invited to address a forum at the Harvard Kennedy School to talk about Middle East issues. Tarek Masoud, the school's director of Middle East Initiatives, said he chose Kushner since he was the architect of the Abraham Accords.{{Cite web |last=Pazzanese |first=Christina |date=2024-02-20 |title=Jared Kushner speaks from Middle East experience in Kennedy School forum |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/02/jared-kushner-speaks-from-middle-east-experience-in-kennedy-school-forum/ |access-date=2024-05-02 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}} In the interview, Kushner referred to the valuable potential of Gaza's “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should move civilians from Gaza to the Negev desert in southern Israel.{{cite news |author1=Patrick Wintour |title=Jared Kushner says Gaza's 'waterfront property could be very valuable' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev |access-date=4 June 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=March 19, 2024}}{{cite news |author1=Meg Kinnard |title=Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, praises 'very valuable' potential of Gaza's 'waterfront property' |url=https://apnews.com/article/jared-kushner-trump-israel-waterfront-property-901895eeafee867e69d0c4582a4deb47 |access-date=4 June 2024 |work=Associated Press |date=March 20, 2024}}

{{see also|USMCA}}Shortly after Trump assumed office, Kushner and several administration officials initiated discussions with the Mexican government around renegotiating NAFTA. In April 2017 reports surfaced that Trump intended to withdraw from the trade agreement.{{Cite news |last1=DeYoung |first1=Karen |last2=Rucker |first2=Philip |date=April 28, 2017 |title=With Trump's shifts on trade, unease and uncertainty north and south of the border |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/with-trumps-shifts-on-trade-unease-and-uncertainty-north-and-south-of-the-border/2017/04/28/7d2fe0ee-2c23-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html |access-date=September 16, 2022 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009065302/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/with-trumps-shifts-on-trade-unease-and-uncertainty-north-and-south-of-the-border/2017/04/28/7d2fe0ee-2c23-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html |url-status=live }} Working with counterparts in the Mexican and Canadian governments, Kushner convinced Trump to set aside these plans and instead enter into formal trade negotiations.{{Cite news |title=Trump says USMCA trade deal with Mexico and Canada proves tough talk and tariffs work |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/2018/10/01/cae5b7fa-c588-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html |access-date=September 16, 2022 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413205454/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/2018/10/01/cae5b7fa-c588-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=U.S. reaches trade deal with Canada and Mexico, providing Trump a crucial win |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/30/nafta-trade-canada-819081 |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=Politico |date=September 30, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921230428/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/30/nafta-trade-canada-819081 |url-status=live }} When the Senate confirmed Robert Lighthizer as United States Trade Representative in May 2017,{{Cite web |title=Robert E. Lighthizer Sworn In As United States Trade Representative |url=http://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2017/may/robert-e-lighthizer-sworn-united-states |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=United States Trade Representative |language=en |archive-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921232054/https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2017/may/robert-e-lighthizer-sworn-united-states |url-status=live }} Lighthizer commenced formal negotiations, leading on the technical aspects of the discussions while Kushner managed the relationships with the Mexican and Canadian governments. On August 27, 2018, the United States and Mexico announced that they had reached a preliminary deal without Canada.{{Cite news |date=October 2, 2018 |title=How Trump's son-in-law helped a $1.2 trillion trade zone stay intact |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/trade-nafta-kushner-idUSL4N1WH507 |access-date=September 16, 2022 |archive-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921223518/https://www.reuters.com/article/trade-nafta-kushner-idUSL4N1WH507 |url-status=live }} A month later, Canada announced that it intended to join the deal as well. At a press conference in the Rose Garden on September 30, 2018, Lighthizer stated that the $1.3 trillion trade deal “would not have happened” without Kushner's efforts.{{Cite web |title=Joint Statement from United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland |url=http://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2018/september/joint-statement-united-states |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=United States Trade Representative |language=en |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922012227/https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2018/september/joint-statement-united-states |url-status=live }} In recognition of these efforts, President Peña Nieto awarded Kushner the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico's highest honor granted to a non-Mexican citizen, calling Kushner a “grand ally” of Mexico and an “important actor” in the U.S.-Mexico relationship.{{Cite web |title=Jared Kushner receives "Aztec Eagle" award from Mexican government |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-receives-aztec-eagle-award-from-mexican-government/ |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=www.cbsnews.com |date=November 30, 2018 |language=en-US |archive-date=November 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130190855/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jared-kushner-receives-aztec-eagle-award-from-mexican-government/ |url-status=live }}

File:White House Coronavirus Update Briefing (49741895803).jpg and Peter Navarro during a coronavirus update briefing on April 2, 2020]]

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Kushner was an influential advisor to President Trump, and shaped the administration's actions.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true|title=The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged|date=2020|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709200448/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true|archive-date=July 9, 2020}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/infighting-missteps-and-a-son-in-law-hungry-for-action-inside-the-trump-administrations-troubled-coronavirus-response/2020/03/14/530c28b4-6559-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html|title=Infighting, missteps and a son-in-law hungry for results: Inside the Trump administration's troubled coronavirus response|date=2020|newspaper=The Washington Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315181154/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/infighting-missteps-and-a-son-in-law-hungry-for-action-inside-the-trump-administrations-troubled-coronavirus-response/2020/03/14/530c28b4-6559-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html|archive-date=March 15, 2020}} At Trump's order, Kushner set up what has been described as a "shadow task force," separate from the official coronavirus task force chaired by Vice President Mike Pence.{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-coronavirus-task-force-prioritized-ppe-trump-associates-nyt-2020-5|title=Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced Trump allies over legitimate vendors|last=Collman|first=Ashley|date=May 6, 2020|work=Business Insider|access-date=August 7, 2020|archive-date=July 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703173039/https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-coronavirus-task-force-prioritized-ppe-trump-associates-nyt-2020-5|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-enables-jared-kushner-s-coronavirus-task-force-revealing-dangers-ncna1176511|title=Trump enables Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force, revealing the dangers of nepotism|last=Libowitz|first=Jordan|date=April 6, 2020|publisher=NBC News|access-date=August 7, 2020|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807194121/https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-enables-jared-kushner-s-coronavirus-task-force-revealing-dangers-ncna1176511|url-status=live}} The Kushner operation was staffed by a dozen young volunteers from the private sector; they worked out of offices on the seventh floor of the Health and Human Services building. Their first assignment was to facilitate the search for medical supplies and protective equipment, with their performance receiving criticism for favoritism shown to Trump associates.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html|title=How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies|date=May 5, 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 7, 2020|archive-date=May 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506141148/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html|url-status=live}} According to The Washington Post, numerous rudimentary initiatives proposed by Kushner interrupted the work of other government officials who were seeking to manage the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Times reported that one way that Kushner was seeking advice on how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak was to ask his brother's father-in-law, a physician, for recommendations. The physician then proceeded to crowdsource advice on a Facebook group for physicians.

Early on during the outbreak, Kushner advised Trump that the media was exaggerating the dangers of the coronavirus outbreak; at the time, Trump downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus.{{Cite news|last1=Haberman|first1=Maggie|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/kushner-trump-coronavirus.html|title=Inside the Coronavirus Response: A Case Study in the White House Under Trump|date=March 16, 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 17, 2020|last2=Weiland|first2=Noah|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317001032/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/kushner-trump-coronavirus.html|archive-date=March 17, 2020|url-status=live}} Kushner helped write the Oval Office address that President Trump gave to the nation on March 11, 2020, along with Trump's advisor Stephen Miller.{{Cite news|last1=Baker|first1=Peter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/trumps-coronavirus-unity.html|title=The President as Bystander: Trump Struggles to Unify a Nation on Edge|date=March 12, 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 15, 2020|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314215216/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/trumps-coronavirus-unity.html|archive-date=March 14, 2020|url-status=live}} Drafts of the address were not shared with any of the staff working on the coronavirus task force or with the agencies dealing with the coronavirus response, and Kushner, Miller and Vice President Pence (who joined the writing process later on) were still working making edits to the draft shortly before Trump gave the address.{{Cite news|date=2020|title=One final viral infusion: Trump's move to block travel from Europe triggered chaos and a surge of passengers from the outbreak's center|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/one-final-viral-infusion-trumps-move-to-block-travel-from-europe-triggered-chaos-and-a-surge-of-passengers-from-the-outbreaks-center/2020/05/23/64836a00-962b-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523231124/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/one-final-viral-infusion-trumps-move-to-block-travel-from-europe-triggered-chaos-and-a-surge-of-passengers-from-the-outbreaks-center/2020/05/23/64836a00-962b-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html|archive-date=May 23, 2020}} The Washington Post wrote that the address that Kushner, who had "zero expertise in infectious diseases and little experience marshaling the full bureaucracy behind a cause", helped write was "widely panned". In the address, Trump blamed Europeans and the Chinese for the virus, describing the virus as a "foreign virus".{{Cite news|last1=Karni|first1=Annie|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|date=March 12, 2020|title=In Rare Oval Office Speech, Trump Voices New Concerns and Old Themes|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-address.html|access-date=March 15, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314214436/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-address.html|archive-date=March 14, 2020|url-status=live}} During the address, Trump inaccurately said "all travel from Europe" would be prohibited, and that the travel prohibitions would apply to goods.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-address-nation-roiled-markets-and-politics/5030892002/|title=Response to Trump's coronavirus address: Another market plunge, airport chaos, anxious lawmakers|last=Jackson|first=John Fritze and David|website=USA Today|access-date=March 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314163707/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/12/trump-coronavirus-address-nation-roiled-markets-and-politics/5030892002/|archive-date=March 14, 2020|url-status=live}} The speech caused markets to plunge, as White House aides had to clarify what the actual policy was. European leaders said they were blindsided by the address. The speech set off panic among Americans abroad who had to scramble to learn whether they could return to the United States and under what circumstances; this created chaos at airports in Europe and the United States.{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/12/814876173/coronavirus-trump-speech-creates-chaos-eu-says-it-wasnt-warned-of-travel-ban|title=Coronavirus: Chaos Follows Trump's European Travel Ban; EU Says It Wasn't Warned|website=NPR.org|date=March 12, 2020|language=en|access-date=March 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314192248/https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/12/814876173/coronavirus-trump-speech-creates-chaos-eu-says-it-wasnt-warned-of-travel-ban|archive-date=March 14, 2020|url-status=live|last1=Chappell|first1=Bill}} Trump reportedly blamed Kushner for the widely panned address, telling aides that he should not have listened to Kushner.

Kushner also helped put together a March 13 Rose Garden event where Trump falsely claimed that Google was "quickly developing" a website that could help test people for coronavirus. Google later clarified their involvement, stating that the website would initially serve the Bay Area.{{Cite web |last=Elias |first=Jennifer |title=Alphabet's Verily launches a limited coronavirus screening website |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/alphabets-verily-says-it-will-launch-a-limited-coronavirus-testing-website-monday.html |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=CNBC |date=March 16, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922184052/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/alphabets-verily-says-it-will-launch-a-limited-coronavirus-testing-website-monday.html |url-status=live }} Trump also announced a project intended to set up testing sites across parking lots across the United States, taking the state and federal health care workers who oversee the project by surprise. These drive-through testing sites were later used to support distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.{{Cite web |title=Testing for COVID-19: A way to lift confinement restrictions |url=https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/testing-for-covid-19-a-way-to-lift-confinement-restrictions-89756248/ |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=OECD |language=en |archive-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921231246/https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/testing-for-covid-19-a-way-to-lift-confinement-restrictions-89756248/ |url-status=live }} On March 30, 2020, The Atlantic reported that a website that Trump had said would help Americans to diagnose themselves and direct them to a nearby coronavirus testing site in a March 13 press conference had been a project between the government and Oscar Health, a company that Kushner had ties with. Kushner's brother, Joshua, co-founded and owns Oscar Health, and Kushner himself was a partial owner of the firm before joining the White House. The website was quickly scrapped.{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/kushner-coronavirus-testing-oscar-company/609139/|title=Exclusive: Kushner Firm Built the Coronavirus Website Trump Promised|last=Meyer|first=Robinson|date=March 30, 2020|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=March 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331031804/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/kushner-coronavirus-testing-oscar-company/609139/|archive-date=March 31, 2020|url-status=live}}

File:4 2 20 Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing.webmhd.webm|date=April 4, 2020|language=en|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409103245/https://www.npr.org/2020/04/04/826922646/jared-kushners-role-in-coronavirus-response-draws-scrutiny-criticism|archive-date=April 9, 2020|url-status=live|last1=Ordoñez|first1=Franco}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/federal-stockpile-medical-supplies-coronavirus-trump|title=Letters to the Editor: If a federal stockpile isn't for states, then what is it for, President Trump?|date=April 7, 2020|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411030911/https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/federal-stockpile-medical-supplies-coronavirus-trump|archive-date=April 11, 2020|url-status=live}}]]

In April 2020, Kushner made a rare public appearance, when in the White House briefing room he defended the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/03/coronavirus-jared-kushner-draws-backlash-our-stockpile-comment/2938648001/|title=Jared Kushner makes coronavirus briefing appearance, draws backlash for 'our stockpile' comment|last=Wu|first=Nicholas|website=USA Today|access-date=April 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403180438/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/03/coronavirus-jared-kushner-draws-backlash-our-stockpile-comment/2938648001/|archive-date=April 3, 2020|url-status=live}} In response to requests by state and local governments that the federal government distribute medical supplies to the states, Kushner said, "The notion of the federal stockpile is that it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be states' stockpiles that they then use." The Strategic National Stockpile page on the Public Health Emergency website was retconned on the same day to reflect this new interpretation of its mission.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/03/jared-kushner-stands-trump-proceeds-offer-very-trumpian-claim-about-stockpiles/|title=Analysis {{!}} The Trump administration just changed its description of the national stockpile to jibe with Jared Kushner's controversial claim |first=Aaron |last=Blake |newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200403225854/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/03/jared-kushner-stands-trump-proceeds-offer-very-trumpian-claim-about-stockpiles/|archive-date=April 3, 2020|url-status=live}}

In late April 2020, the Department of Defense revealed that the federal government had less than 10,000 ventilators remaining in the strategic national stockpile, far short of the anticipated need.{{Cite news |last1=Sanger |first1=David E. |last2=Kanno-Youngs |first2=Zolan |last3=Kulish |first3=Nicholas |date=April 1, 2020 |title=A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators.html |access-date=September 16, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922005543/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators.html |url-status=live }} At that time, Governor Andrew Cuomo projected that New York would need 37,000 ventilators.{{Cite news |date=April 1, 2020 |title=New York Governor closes city playgrounds to combat virus |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-new-york-idUSKBN21J6BE |access-date=September 16, 2022 |archive-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921203158/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-new-york-idUSKBN21J6BE |url-status=live }} New Jersey, Louisiana, and Michigan also requested thousands of ventilators.{{Cite web |last=Italy |first=U. S. Mission |date=March 31, 2020 |title=Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing, March 31, 2020 |url=https://it.usembassy.gov/members-of-the-coronavirus-task-force-hold-a-press-briefing-march-30-2020-2/ |access-date=September 16, 2022 |website=U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Italy |language=en-US |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922010605/https://it.usembassy.gov/members-of-the-coronavirus-task-force-hold-a-press-briefing-march-30-2020-2/ |url-status=live }} The Trump administration, however, refused to empty the stockpile to fulfill these requests, claiming that the states needed far fewer than they were projecting. Kushner described the administration's response to the coronavirus as "a great success story."{{cite web|title=Kushner calls the coronavirus response in US 'a great success story'|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/29/kushner-coronavirus-response-us-a-great-success-story/3052217001/|last=Behrmann|first=Savannah|website=USA Today|access-date=May 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508214742/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/29/kushner-coronavirus-response-us-a-great-success-story/3052217001/|archive-date=May 8, 2020|url-status=live}} During the pandemic, Kushner relied on a team of volunteers from consulting and private equity firms who had little relevant experience in dealing with a pandemic. Kushner described the volunteers as "true patriots." The team was intended to assist in procuring PPE, but the team struggled to do so.{{Cite news|date=2020|title=Kushner coronavirus effort said to be hampered by inexperienced volunteers|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushner-coronavirus-effort-said-to-be-hampered-by-inexperienced-volunteers/2020/05/05/6166ef0c-8e1c-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516212947/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kushner-coronavirus-effort-said-to-be-hampered-by-inexperienced-volunteers/2020/05/05/6166ef0c-8e1c-11ea-9e23-6914ee410a5f_story.html|archive-date=May 16, 2020}} The New York Times wrote that the search for supplies was "fumbling" and that "personal relationships and loyalty are often prized over governmental expertise, and private interests are granted extraordinary access and deference."{{Cite news|last1=Confessore|first1=Nicholas|last2=Jacobs|first2=Andrew|last3=Kantor|first3=Jodi|last4=Kanno-Youngs|first4=Zolan|last5=Ferré-Sadurní|first5=Luis|date=May 5, 2020|title=How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html|access-date=May 16, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506141148/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html|archive-date=May 6, 2020|url-status=live}} Kushner's volunteer team advised senior officials in New York that Yaron Oren-Pines, a Silicon Valley engineer, could produce 1,000 ventilators. New York officials assumed that the team had vetted him and gave him an $86 million contract to produce the ventilators; no ventilators were produced.{{Cite news|last1=Ferré-Sadurní|first1=Luis|last2=Kaplan|first2=Thomas|date=May 8, 2020|title=He Had Never Sold a Ventilator. N.Y. Gave Him an $86 Million Deal.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/nyregion/ventilators-fema-coronavirus-cuomo.html|access-date=May 16, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200518101815/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/nyregion/ventilators-fema-coronavirus-cuomo.html|archive-date=May 18, 2020|url-status=live}}

In May 2020, Kushner reportedly told those involved in the coronavirus response that the coronavirus was under control and that there would not be a second wave. By June 2020, cases were surging in the United States.{{Cite news|date=2020|title=With Trump leading the way, America's coronavirus failures exposed by record surge in new infections|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-trump-leading-the-way-americas-coronavirus-failures-exposed-by-record-surge-in-new-infections/2020/06/27/bd15aea2-b7c4-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713162347/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-trump-leading-the-way-americas-coronavirus-failures-exposed-by-record-surge-in-new-infections/2020/06/27/bd15aea2-b7c4-11ea-a8da-693df3d7674a_story.html|archive-date=July 13, 2020}} It was revealed that businesses owned by the Kushner family obtained coronavirus relief, which raised concerns with potential conflicts of interests due to Kushner's White House role.{{cite web|last=Sommerfeldt|first=Chris|title=Jared Kushner's family, Trump building tenants received coronavirus business aid: SBA|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-kushner-trump-aid-20200706-wi2rzhl5inhttjqkrdl3nnxlki-story.html|access-date=July 14, 2020|website=nydailynews.com|date=July 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707120736/https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-kushner-trump-aid-20200706-wi2rzhl5inhttjqkrdl3nnxlki-story.html|archive-date=July 7, 2020|url-status=live}}

In August 2020, when 170,000 had died from the coronavirus in the United States, Kushner reiterated his claim from April 2020 that the administration's response had been a "success story."{{cite web|last=Solender|first=Andrew|title=Jared Kushner Says 170,000 U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Is A Success Story|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/08/17/jared-kushner-says-170000-us-coronavirus-deaths-is-a-success-story/|access-date=August 19, 2020|website=Forbes|language=en|archive-date=August 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819131630/https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/08/17/jared-kushner-says-170000-us-coronavirus-deaths-is-a-success-story/|url-status=live}}

Kushner did not participate in the Trump administration's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. He started writing a memoir, made plans to move his family to Miami, and focused on his project of Middle East diplomacy. He met with Biden administration security advisors Jake Sullivan and Jeffrey Zients to prepare for transition of power. During the January 6, 2021 United States Capitol attack, he was returning from a diplomatic trip around the Persian gulf states. On January 11, 2021, he arranged a meeting between vice-president Mike Pence and Donald Trump to try to reconcile their relationship. On March 31, 2022, he voluntarily spoke to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack for six hours. He was the highest-ranking Trump administration official interviewed to date, as well as the first Trump family member to be interviewed.{{Cite web |last1=Gregorian |first1=Dareh |last2=Stewart |first2=Kyle |date=March 31, 2022 |title=Jared Kushner interviewed by Jan. 6 committee for more than six hours |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/jared-kushner-interviewed-jan-6-committee-six-hours-rcna22387 |access-date=April 1, 2022 |website=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=April 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401085650/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/jared-kushner-interviewed-jan-6-committee-six-hours-rcna22387 |url-status=live }}

Kushner's firm landed the more than $2 billion only six months after Kushner stopped working as a senior adviser for the president,{{cite web | url=https://therealdeal.com/national/2023/08/18/jared-kushners-investment-firm-not-making-many-investments/ | title=Jared Kushner's Investment Firm Not Making Many Investments | date=August 18, 2023 | access-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820152154/https://therealdeal.com/national/2023/08/18/jared-kushners-investment-firm-not-making-many-investments/ | url-status=live }} to invest in American and Israeli companies expanding in India, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. Investors include $2 billion from the Saudi public investment fund, with Kushner stating that he hopes to open an "investment corridor between Saudi Arabia and Israel",{{Cite news |last=Holland |first=Steve |date=December 23, 2021 |title=Jared Kushner investment firm Affinity raises $3 billion in committed funding |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/jared-kushner-investment-firm-affinity-raises-3-billion-committed-funding-2021-12-23/ |access-date=June 10, 2022 |archive-date=March 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305035809/https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/jared-kushner-investment-firm-affinity-raises-3-billion-committed-funding-2021-12-23/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |title=Jared Kushner's Fund to Invest Saudi Millions in Israeli Tech, WSJ Reports |language=en |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2022-05-07/ty-article/jared-kushners-fund-to-invest-saudi-millions-in-israeli-tech-wsj-reports/00000180-a352-dc89-a3c9-ebfb3e520000 |access-date=June 9, 2022 |archive-date=March 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315000706/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2022-05-07/ty-article/jared-kushners-fund-to-invest-saudi-millions-in-israeli-tech-wsj-reports/00000180-a352-dc89-a3c9-ebfb3e520000 |url-status=live }} seen internationally as a "sign of warming ties between two historic rivals".{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Dion Nissenbaum and Rory |date=May 8, 2022 |title=WSJ News Exclusive {{!}} Jared Kushner's New Fund Plans to Invest Saudi Money in Israel |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jared-kushners-new-fund-plans-to-invest-saudi-money-in-israel-11651927236 |access-date=June 11, 2022 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=January 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102225119/https://www.wsj.com/articles/jared-kushners-new-fund-plans-to-invest-saudi-money-in-israel-11651927236 |url-status=live }}

Within the Trump administration, Kushner had been a staunch defender of Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman.{{Cite news |last1=Kirkpatrick |first1=David D. |last2=Kelly |first2=Kate |date=April 10, 2022 |title=Before Giving Billions to Jared Kushner, Saudi Investment Fund Had Big Doubts |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html |access-date=April 10, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102225119/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html |url-status=live }} In 2021, Kushner started an investment firm, Affinity Partners. He sought funds for the new company through the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/kushner-investment-firm-ramping-up-activities-with-new-hires-2021-11-04/|title=Kushner investment firm ramping up activities with new hires|first=Steve|last=Holland|newspaper=Reuters|date=November 4, 2021|via=www.reuters.com|access-date=December 11, 2021|archive-date=December 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211211005621/https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/kushner-investment-firm-ramping-up-activities-with-new-hires-2021-11-04/|url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/politics/kushner-investment-middle-east.html |title=Seeking Backers for New Fund, Jared Kushner Turns to Middle East |work=The New York Times |date=November 26, 2021 |access-date=December 11, 2021 |last1=Kelly |first1=Kate |last2=Kirkpatrick |first2=David D. |last3=Rappeport |first3=Alan |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127033918/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/us/politics/kushner-investment-middle-east.html/ |url-status=live }} Advisers for the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi government's sovereign wealth fund, expressed several concerns about the transaction—including the inexperience of Affinity management, the degree of risk to be assumed by the Saudi kingdom, an "excessive" management fee, and a finding that Affinity's operations were "unsatisfactory in all aspects". However, PIF management overruled them and invested $2 billion in Kushner's firm, only six months after Kushner had left the White House. The firm primarily depended on Saudi money, as, by April 2022, it only had $2.5 billion under its management. According to ethics experts, the investment created the appearance of potential payback for Kushner. The House Oversight Committee said on June 2, 2022, that it had opened an investigation into whether Kushner had traded on his government position to get the deal.{{cite news |title=House Panel Examining Jared Kushner Over Saudi Investment in New Firm |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/us/politics/jared-kushner-house-investigation.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 2, 2022 |author1=Kate Kelly |author2=David D. Kirkpatrick |access-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-date=June 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606021513/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/us/politics/jared-kushner-house-investigation.html |url-status=live }}

The fund plans to invest Saudi money into startup companies in Israel. According to the Wall Street Journal, "The decision marks the first known instance that the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s cash will be directed to Israel, a sign of the kingdom’s increasing willingness to do business with the country, even though they have no diplomatic relations."{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Dion Nissenbaum and Rory |date=May 8, 2022 |title=WSJ News Exclusive {{!}} Jared Kushner's New Fund Plans to Invest Saudi Money in Israel |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/jared-kushners-new-fund-plans-to-invest-saudi-money-in-israel-11651927236 |access-date=June 16, 2022 |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=January 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102225119/https://www.wsj.com/articles/jared-kushners-new-fund-plans-to-invest-saudi-money-in-israel-11651927236 |url-status=live }}

In 2023, Republican candidate for President Chris Christie criticized Kushner and Trump for the deal, saying "Why would you send Jared Kushner to the Middle East when you have Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo... You send him? Why? We found out the answer six months after he left office: $2 billion from the Saudis to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, $2 billion, and because he did all this and more with his family. I'm going to end this family grift that's going on. We are not a third-world republic."{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-turn-jared-kushner-crossed-line-1819069 | title=Republicans turn on Jared Kushner: "Crossed the line" | website=Newsweek | date=August 11, 2023 | access-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820153651/https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-turn-jared-kushner-crossed-line-1819069 | url-status=live }} The Wall Street Journal reported that Kushner has not made any investments despite receiving the funding some years ago, collecting "tens of millions in management fees each year" while not making any investments. Norm Eisen of the Brookings Institution suggested the payments were meant to curry favor with Trump's family, should the former president retake the White House in the 2024 election: "It appears to be money for nothing."{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushners-massive-saudi-earnings-few-investments-raise-questions-1821065 | title=Jared Kushner's massive Saudi earnings for few investments raise questions | website=Newsweek | date=August 19, 2023 | access-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820153651/https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushners-massive-saudi-earnings-few-investments-raise-questions-1821065 | url-status=live }} The House Oversight Committee Chairman, Kentucky Republican James Comer, said he believes Kushner “crossed the line of ethics” by accepting the investment from Saudi Arabia.{{cite web | url=https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/comer-says-jared-kushner-crossed-the-line-of-ethics-by-accepting-2-billion-saudi-investment/ | title=Jared Kushner 'crossed line of ethics' by accepting $2B Saudi investment: Comer | date=August 11, 2023 | access-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-date=August 20, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820154708/https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/comer-says-jared-kushner-crossed-the-line-of-ethics-by-accepting-2-billion-saudi-investment/ | url-status=live }}

As of 2024, the fund had made $157 million in management fees (including $87 million from the Saudi government alone) since 2021.{{Cite news |last=Tait |first=Robert |date=2024-09-25 |title=Jared Kushner's private equity firm faces inquiry as it fails to return profits |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/25/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-firm-senate-inquiry |access-date=2024-10-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} The fund is under Senate investigation for possible foreign influence buying ahead of the 2024 election after a New York Times report suggested that Kushner used contacts he made from his role in Trump's White House.{{Cite news |last1=Lipton |first1=Eric |last2=Swan |first2=Jonathan |last3=Haberman |first3=Maggie |date=March 15, 2024 |title=Kushner Developing Deals Overseas Even as His Father-in-Law Runs for President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/jared-kushner-pursuing-development-deals-in-albania-and-serbia.html |work=New York Times}}

Kushner wrote a memoir, Breaking History: A White House Memoir, that was published in August 2022.{{Cite news |last=Baker |first=Peter |date=June 8, 2022 |title=How Jared Kushner Washed His Hands of Donald Trump Before Jan. 6 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-jan-6.html |access-date=June 9, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611223730/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-jan-6.html |url-status=live }}

On July 8, 2024, Kushner succeeded Village of Indian Creek Vice Mayor & Village Trustee Javier Holtz, joining the Village council.{{Cite web |title= |url=https://www.indiancreekvillagefl.gov/docs/default-source/departments/clerk/agendas/2024/july-long-version/agenda---regular-council-meeting-07-08-2024.pdf?sfvrsn=d861e6dc_4}}{{Cite web |title=Mayor & Village Council |url=https://www.indiancreekvillagefl.gov/government/mayor-village-council- |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Default |language=en}}

Kushner's appointment as Trump's senior advisor in the White House in January 2017 was questioned on the basis of a 1967 anti-nepotism law which forbids public officials from hiring family members, and explicitly one's son-in-law, in agencies or offices they oversee.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/09/tumps-son-in-law-jared-kushner-expected-to-join-white-house-as-a-senior-adviser/ |title=Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to join White House as senior adviser; no formal role for Ivanka Trump |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124065829/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/09/tumps-son-in-law-jared-kushner-expected-to-join-white-house-as-a-senior-adviser/ |archive-date=January 24, 2017}} The law was passed in response to President John F. Kennedy's decision to appoint his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general in 1961.[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/jared-kushner-senior-adviser-donald-trump Trump names son-in-law Jared Kushner as senior adviser, testing anti-nepotism law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200529184349/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/09/jared-kushner-senior-adviser-donald-trump |date=May 29, 2020}}, The Guardian, January 10, 2017 However, on January 20, 2017, the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion stating the anti-nepotism law does not apply to appointments within the White House,{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2017/01/21/doj-trump-hiring-kushner-doesnt-violate-anti-nepotism-laws/ |title=DOJ: Trump hiring Kushner doesn't violate anti-nepotism laws |last=Short |first=Aaron |date=January 21, 2017 |newspaper=The New York Post|access-date=January 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131081013/http://nypost.com/2017/01/21/doj-trump-hiring-kushner-doesnt-violate-anti-nepotism-laws/ |archive-date=January 31, 2017}}{{cite web|first=Daniel L.|last=Koffsky|date=January 20, 2017|url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/attachments/2017/01/20/2017-01-20-anti-nepo-stat-who_0.pdf|title=Application of the Anti-Nepotism Statute to a Presidential Appointment in the White House Office|website=U.S. Justice Department|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123023730/https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/attachments/2017/01/20/2017-01-20-anti-nepo-stat-who_0.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2017|access-date=January 25, 2017}} after Kushner's lawyer, Jamie Gorelick claimed the 1967 law does not apply to the White House because it is not an 'agency'.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/09/tumps-son-in-law-jared-kushner-expected-to-join-white-house-as-a-senior-adviser/ Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to join White House as senior adviser; no formal role for Ivanka Trump] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124065829/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/09/tumps-son-in-law-jared-kushner-expected-to-join-white-house-as-a-senior-adviser/ |date=January 24, 2017}}, Washington Post, January 19, 2017 Among other precedents, the OLC opinion invoked a 1993 D.C. Circuit Court ruling that enabled Hillary Clinton to serve within the White House during the Clinton administration.{{Cite web |title=Trump's appointment of son-in-law could rest on Clinton precedent |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-transition-jared-kushner-hillary-clinton-precedent-231577 |access-date=December 14, 2022 |website=Politico |date=November 17, 2016 |language=en |archive-date=December 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214165240/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-transition-jared-kushner-hillary-clinton-precedent-231577 |url-status=live }} Kushner was sworn in on January 22, 2017{{cite news |first1=David|last1=Nakamura|first2=John|last2=Wagner |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/22/trump-pence-preside-over-east-room-ceremony-to-swear-in-senior-staff/ |title=Trump, Pence preside over East Room ceremony to swear in senior staff |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=January 25, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122211959/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/22/trump-pence-preside-over-east-room-ceremony-to-swear-in-senior-staff/ |archive-date=January 22, 2017}} and was given the office which is physically the closest to the Oval Office.{{cite web |last1=Ellison |first1=Sarah |author-link1=Sarah Ellison |title=The Inside Story of the Kushner–Bannon Civil War |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/jared-kushner-steve-bannon-white-house-civil-war |work=Vanity Fair|location=New York City|access-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170824033450/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/04/jared-kushner-steve-bannon-white-house-civil-war |archive-date=August 24, 2017 |date=May 2017 |url-status=dead}}

File:170403-D-PB383-033 (33666887082).jpg, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Iraqi defence minister Erfan al-Hiyali in Baghdad on April 3, 2017]]

On January 18, 2017, immediately after his appointment as senior advisor to President Trump, Kushner requested Top Secret security clearance,{{cite news |last1=Becker |first1=Jo |last2=Rosenberg |first2=Matthew |title=Kushner Omitted Meeting With Russians on Security Clearance Forms |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/politics/jared-kushner-russians-security-clearance.html |access-date=May 26, 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=April 6, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170526123301/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/politics/jared-kushner-russians-security-clearance.html |archive-date=May 26, 2017}} using "Standard Form 86 (SF86): Questionnaire for National Security Positions".{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jared-kushner-donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting-government-lawyer-dirt-hillary-clinton-a7844366.html |title=Jared Kushner 'did not know subject of Russia meeting as he did not read to bottom of email' |website=The Independent |first=Rachael |last=Revesz |date=July 16, 2017 |access-date=July 17, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716230645/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jared-kushner-donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting-government-lawyer-dirt-hillary-clinton-a7844366.html |archive-date=July 16, 2017}}{{cite web |url=https://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116390 |publisher=General Services Administration |title=Form: SF86 Questionnaire for National Security Positions |date=December 20, 2010 |access-date=July 17, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712032121/https://gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116390 |archive-date=July 12, 2017}} The request omitted all of Kushner's contacts with foreign officials, including the meetings with Kislyak and Gorkov, though he quickly updated his filing to notify government officials that he would supplement his disclosure to provide the required information. Failure to disclose pertinent contacts can cause security clearances to be declined or revoked, and an intentional failure to disclose can result in imprisonment.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html |website=The New York Times |title=Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign |first1=Jo |last1=Becker |first2=Matt |last2=Apuzzo |first3=Adam |last3=Goldman |date=July 8, 2017 |access-date=July 17, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711022210/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html |archive-date=July 11, 2017}} Kushner's lawyers said that the omissions were "an oversight",{{cite web |url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/rep-ted-lieu-jared-kushner-lied-and-his-security-clearance-should-be-revoked/ |title=Rep Ted Lieu: Jared Kushner 'Lied And His Security Clearance Should Be Revoked' |website=mediaite.com |access-date=April 16, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416221541/http://www.mediaite.com/online/rep-ted-lieu-jared-kushner-lied-and-his-security-clearance-should-be-revoked/ |archive-date=April 16, 2017}} and that "a member of [Kushner's] staff had prematurely hit the 'send' button" before the form was completed.

By July 2017, Kushner had updated his SF86, this time disclosing contacts with foreign nationals. This was the first time that government officials were made aware of the June 2016 Trump campaign–Russian meeting and Kushner's role in it.

On September 15, 2017, Carl Kline, the director of the personnel security office within the Executive Office of President Trump, recorded Kushner as having an interim Top Secret/SCI security clearance.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html|title=Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance|first1=Maggie|last1=Haberman|first2=Michael S.|last2=Schmidt|first3=Adam |last3=Goldman |first4=Annie|last4=Karni|date=February 28, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301024954/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html|archive-date=March 1, 2019|url-status=live}} Kushner and his wife were among at least 48 officials granted interim clearance giving them access to sensitive compartmented information (SCI): detailed accounts of intelligence sources and methods.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-overhauls-security-clearance-process-following-revelations-n848821|title=White House overhauls security clearance process following revelations|first1=Mike|last1=Memoli|first2=Carol E.|last2=Lee|date=February 16, 2018 |publisher=NBC News|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302215423/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-overhauls-security-clearance-process-following-revelations-n848821|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/report-says-trump-demanded-jared-kushner-be-given-security-clearance-n977941|title=Trump overruled security officials to demand Jared Kushner get top-secret clearance, report says|publisher=NBC News|first=Doha|last=Madani|date=March 2019 |access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302215405/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/report-says-trump-demanded-jared-kushner-be-given-security-clearance-n977941|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}

On February 27, 2018, in response to the Rob Porter scandal, White House chief of staff John Kelly downgraded Kushner's interim security clearance to "secret" status, along with other White House staffers working with interim security clearances.{{cite web |website=Politico |title=Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence |date=February 27, 2018 |access-date=February 27, 2018 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgrade-427178 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227204509/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/27/jared-kushner-security-clearance-downgrade-427178 |archive-date=February 27, 2018}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance-trump.html |title=Jared Kushner's Security Clearance Downgraded |date=February 27, 2018 |access-date=March 22, 2018 |first1=Michael D. |last1=Shear |first2=Katie |last2=Rogers |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227223558/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance-trump.html |archive-date=February 27, 2018 |url-status=live}} White House sources said that part of the reason Kushner had not yet been granted permanent security clearance was that he was under investigation by Robert Mueller.

Kushner finally received permanent Top Secret security clearance on May 23, 2018.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html|title=Jared Kushner Gets Security Clearance, Ending Swirl of Questions Over Delay|first=Matt|last=Apuzzo|work=The New York Times |date=May 23, 2018|via=NYTimes.com|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303064035/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html|archive-date=March 3, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news |author=Most Read Politics |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushner-receives-permanent-security-clearance-ending-uncertainty-over-his-status/2018/05/23/b4a57fae-5eb6-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html |title=Jared Kushner receives permanent security clearance, an indication he may no longer be a focus of the special counsel |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=May 23, 2018 |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301003918/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jared-kushner-receives-permanent-security-clearance-ending-uncertainty-over-his-status/2018/05/23/b4a57fae-5eb6-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html |archive-date=March 1, 2019 |url-status=live}} In January 2019, Trump told The New York Times that he had not intervened to grant Kushner's security clearances. On February 8, 2019, Kushner's wife Ivanka also denied that Trump had intervened to grant her or Kushner's security clearances.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-special-treatment-security-clearances/story?id=60940398|title=Ivanka Trump says she and Jared Kushner got no special treatment for security clearances|date=February 8, 2019|website=ABC News|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302014726/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-special-treatment-security-clearances/story?id=60940398|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news |author=Most Read Politics |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/01/president-ivanka-trumps-egregious-deception-security-clearances/ |title=The president's and Ivanka Trump's egregious deception on security clearances |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301155135/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/01/president-ivanka-trumps-egregious-deception-security-clearances/ |archive-date=March 1, 2019 |url-status=live}} However, on February 28, 2019, CNN (citing three anonymous sources) and The New York Times (citing four anonymous sources) reported that in May 2018 Trump ordered Kelly to grant Kushner a top-secret clearance, which Kelly contemporaneously documented in an internal memo. Reportedly, this was the first time any U.S. president had intervened in such a way.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance-delay-mueller-investigation/index.html |title=Sources: Mueller probe stymies Kushner security clearance|first1=Shimon|last1=Prokupecz|first2=Jeremy |last2=Diamond|first3=Dana |last3=Bash|publisher=CNN|date=February 23, 2018|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301194248/https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/22/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance-delay-mueller-investigation/index.html|archive-date=March 1, 2019|url-status=live}} Carl Kline later testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that there had been no external intervention in the decision to restore Kushner's clearance.{{Cite news |last1=Rogers |first1=Katie |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |last3=Fandos |first3=Nicholas |date=May 2, 2019 |title=Ex-White House Official Says No One Pressured Him to Overturn Security Clearance Recommendations |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/carl-kline-security-clearance.html |access-date=October 20, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020171320/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/carl-kline-security-clearance.html |url-status=live }}

{{See also|Kushner Companies}}

While serving in the Trump administration, Kushner retained ownership of businesses, which drew criticism from government ethics experts who said it created conflicts of interest.{{Cite news|date=2020|title=Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner earned at least $36 million in outside income last year, new disclosures show|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-earned-at-least-36-million-in-outside-income-last-year-new-disclosures-show/2020/07/31/9eb71e66-d36a-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801013848/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner-earned-at-least-36-million-in-outside-income-last-year-new-disclosures-show/2020/07/31/9eb71e66-d36a-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html|archive-date=August 1, 2020}}

After his appointment as Senior Advisor to Donald Trump (in January 2017), Kushner resigned as head of his family's real-estate firm, Kushner Companies, and partially divested himself of some of its assets, including all his stake in Thrive Capital, a venture capital firm co-founded by his brother, all common stock holdings and over 35 other investments, and his stake in 666 Fifth Avenue.{{Cite news |last=Merced |first=Michael J. de la |date=March 13, 2021 |title=The Other Kushner's Next Move |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/business/dealbook/joshua-kushner-thrive.html |access-date=September 29, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002124126/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/business/dealbook/joshua-kushner-thrive.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Pilgrim |first=Lexi |date=January 31, 2017 |title=Jared Kushner Divestment {{!}} 666 Fifth Avenue {{!}} Jared Kushner |url=https://therealdeal.com/2017/01/31/jared-kushner-sells-stake-in-666-fifth-avenue/ |access-date=September 29, 2022 |website=The Real Deal New York |language=en-US |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929161315/https://therealdeal.com/2017/01/31/jared-kushner-sells-stake-in-666-fifth-avenue/ |url-status=live }} However, he did not actually sell off his assets or set up a blind trust with outside management. Instead, he transferred ownership of some of his assets to his brother and to a trust overseen by his mother rather than selling off his assets to a third party or setting up a blind trust with outside management. The New York Times reported that Kushner managed to retain "the vast majority of his interest in Kushner Companies. His real estate holdings and other investments are worth as much as $761 million."[https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/jared-kushners-conflicts-of-interest-reach-a-crisis-point Jared Kushner's Conflicts of Interest Reach a Crisis Point] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703234444/https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/jared-kushners-conflicts-of-interest-reach-a-crisis-point |date=July 3, 2020}}, The New Yorker, March 2, 2018 Disclosures he was required to make show that Kushner still receives millions of dollars a year in income from rent collected by his assorted real estate portfolio.[https://theintercept.com/2020/04/04/jared-kushner-real-estate-company-evictions/ Coronavirus Hasn't Stopped Jared Kushner's Real Estate Empire From Hounding Tenants With Debt Collection, Eviction Lawsuits] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407054202/https://theintercept.com/2020/04/04/jared-kushner-real-estate-company-evictions/ |date=April 7, 2020 }}, The Intercept, April 5, 2020

After her father was elected president, global sales of Ivanka Trump merchandise surged.[https://apnews.com/d9e34f23a64947d99e4a7d757012c509 Ivanka's biz prospers as politics mixes with business] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419202747/https://apnews.com/d9e34f23a64947d99e4a7d757012c509 |date=April 19, 2020}}, Associated press, April 19, 2017 On April 6, 2017, the same day that Kushner and Ivanka dined with Chinese president Xi Jinping and his wife at a dinner hosted by the president at Mar-a-Lago, the Chinese government provisionally approved three new trademarks for the Ivanka Trump brand[https://www.citizensforethics.org/nepotism-conflicts-interest-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/ Nepotism And Conflicts Of Interest – Jared Kushner And Ivanka Trump] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413045252/https://www.citizensforethics.org/nepotism-conflicts-interest-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump/ |date=April 13, 2020}}, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka Trump brand jewelry, bags and spa services in the world's second-largest economy. Ivanka applied for the trademarks in 2016 due to concerns about the proliferation of knock off and counterfeits goods being sold under her name in China as her father's presidential campaign progressed.{{Cite web |last=Beer |first=Tommy |title=Ivanka's Trademark Requests Were Fast-Tracked In China After Trump Was Elected |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/ |access-date=September 29, 2022 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=January 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104093721/https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/ |url-status=live }}

While a White House official, Kushner used WhatsApp to conduct government business, raising concerns among cybersecurity experts that sensitive government communications could be vulnerable to exploitation by foreign governments and hackers.{{cite news|first=Kevin|last=Collier|title=Jared Kushner's use of WhatsApp raises concerns among cybersecurity experts|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/23/politics/kushner-whatsapp-concerns/index.html|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=CNN|date= March 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630161522/https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/23/politics/kushner-whatsapp-concerns/index.html|archive-date=June 30, 2020|url-status=live}} Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was reportedly one of the individuals that Kushner contacted through WhatsApp; in January 2020, UN investigators said that there was evidence that bin Salman was involved in the hacking of Jeff Bezos's phone through WhatsApp communications, advising that Kushner and others in contact with the Crown Prince should take measures to protect their communications.{{cite news|last1=Liptak |first1=Kevin|first2=Simon|last2=Cullen|title=UN expert recommends Kushner change his phone after suspected Saudi hack|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-jeff-bezos-phone-hack/index.html|access-date=July 31, 2020|website=CNN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428144743/https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/politics/jared-kushner-saudi-arabia-jeff-bezos-phone-hack/index.html|archive-date=April 28, 2020|url-status=live}} Kushner reportedly used WhatsApp to communicate with his coronavirus team during March and April 2020.{{cite magazine|last=Eban|first=Katherine|title=How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air|access-date=July 31, 2020|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=July 30, 2020|language=en-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730234201/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air|archive-date=July 30, 2020|url-status=live}} Ethics watchdogs have since confirmed that Kushner turned over his WhatsApp records prior to departing the White House, and that these records have been acquired in full by the National Archives and Records Administration.{{Cite web |last=Honl-Stuenkel |first=Linnaea |date=February 11, 2021 |title=White House reverses Trump records policy, confirms WhatsApp messages saved |url=https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/white-house-reverses-trump-records-policy-confirms-whatsapp-messages-saved/ |access-date=September 29, 2022 |website=CREW {{!}} Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington |language=en-US |archive-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929161555/https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/white-house-reverses-trump-records-policy-confirms-whatsapp-messages-saved/ |url-status=live }}

Upon his suggestion and the Aleph Institute, several white collar criminals have been pardoned; for example in 2020 Philip Esformes, who defrauded Medicare for about $1.3 billion. Esformes has been described as "a man driven by almost unbounded greed,".{{Cite news |last1=Vogel |first1=Kenneth P. |last2=Lipton |first2=Eric |last3=Drucker |first3=Jesse |date=December 24, 2020 |title=Behind Trump Clemency, a Case Study in Special Access |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/politics/trump-pardon-clemency-access.html |access-date=September 26, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227160107/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/us/politics/trump-pardon-clemency-access.html |url-status=live }}

Jared Kushner was in the list of 13 family members and three Cabinet appointees, who were granted security for additional six months after Donald Trump left the White House, a dispensation which had also been granted to Sasha and Malia Obama.{{Cite news |last1=Leonnig |first1=Carol D. |last2=Miroff |first2=Nick |date=January 20, 2021 |title=Trump extended Secret Service protection to his adult children and three top officials as he left office |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html |access-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-date=May 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523225923/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html |url-status=live }}

In May 2021, four months after Donald Trump had vacated the Presidency, the Daily Beast reported Kushner's Secret Service security team accompanied him to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, incurring US State Department costs of $12,950. Kushner cited the requirement of high security for which a total of 50 "room nights" at $259 each were booked between May 5 and 14 at Abu Dhabi's Ritz-Carlton hotel. Ethics watchdogs raised concerns of financial connections between Kushner and the UAE, citing that former Senior Advisor to the US president was believed to be "particularly manipulable" by the UAE. A month before Trump left office, Kushner's last overseas trip cost US taxpayers around $24,335 in hotel costs alone.{{cite web|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners-may-2021-stay-at-the-ritz-carlton-abu-dhabi-cost-taxpayers-dollar13000|title=Jared Kushner's May 2021 Stay at the Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi Cost U.S. Taxpayers Thousands|access-date=May 17, 2021|website=The Daily Beast|date=May 17, 2021|archive-date=May 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520215351/https://www.thedailybeast.com/jared-kushners-may-2021-stay-at-the-ritz-carlton-abu-dhabi-cost-taxpayers-dollar13000|url-status=live}}

Kushner has a younger brother, Joshua, and two sisters, Dara and Nicole.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/jared-kushner-family-empire-observer|title=How Jared Kushner Is Dismantling a Family Empire|last=Cohen|first=Rich|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=September 27, 2018|access-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180522010931/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/jared-kushner-family-empire-observer|archive-date=May 22, 2018|url-status=live}} He married Ivanka Trump in a Jewish ceremony on October 25, 2009. They had met in 2005 through mutual friends.{{cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Gabriel |title=Ivanka Trump on New Fiancé Jared Kushner: 'He'll Be a Great Father' |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2009/07/ivanka_trump_on_new_fiance_jar.html |access-date=June 1, 2017 |magazine=New York |date=July 17, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202061920/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2009/07/ivanka_trump_on_new_fiance_jar.html |archive-date=December 2, 2016}}{{cite news |title=Ivanka Trump Weds Jared Kushner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/fashion/weddings/25TRUMP.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 24, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314045655/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/fashion/weddings/25TRUMP.html |archive-date=March 14, 2013}}[http://bhcourier.com/trump-son-in-law-in-bidding-for-dodgers-2/ "Trump Son-In-Law In Bidding For Dodgers"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007171650/http://bhcourier.com/trump-son-in-law-in-bidding-for-dodgers-2/ |date=October 7, 2016}}, The Beverly Hills Courier, February 7, 2012 Kushner and his wife Ivanka (who converted to Judaism in 2009{{cite web |last1=Mandel |first1=Bethany S. |title=Ivanka Trump and Double Standards for Jewish Converts |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/198879/ivanka-trump-and-double-standards-for-jewish-converts |access-date=June 1, 2017 |work=Tablet Magazine |date=March 24, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425175137/http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/198879/ivanka-trump-and-double-standards-for-jewish-converts |archive-date=April 25, 2017}}) are Modern Orthodox Jews, keep a kosher home, and observe the Jewish Shabbat.{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/what-should-american-jews-make-of-ivanka-trump/498476/ |title=Ivanka Trump, the Jewish Daughter of David Duke's Favorite Candidate for President |first=Emma |last=Green |website=The Atlantic |date=September 4, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329140842/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/what-should-american-jews-make-of-ivanka-trump/498476/ |archive-date=March 29, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://forward.com/opinion/361826/how-could-modern-orthodox-judaism-produce-jared-kushner/ |title=How Could Modern Orthodox Judaism Produce Jared Kushner? |last=Beinart |first=Peter |date=January 31, 2017 |newspaper=The Forward |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329142239/http://forward.com/opinion/361826/how-could-modern-orthodox-judaism-produce-jared-kushner/ |archive-date=March 29, 2017}}{{cite web |url=http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2542/jared-kushner-facts/ |title=Jared Kushner Will Head Up a New White House Office with a Broad Mandate |date=March 27, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404130401/http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/news/g2542/jared-kushner-facts/ |archive-date=April 4, 2017}} They have three children, a daughter born in July 2011{{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/ivanka-trump-gives-birth-to-daughter/|title=Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Welcome Daughter|work=People|first=Alla|last=Byrne|date=July 17, 2011|access-date=February 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203201724/https://people.com/parents/ivanka-trump-gives-birth-to-daughter/|archive-date=February 3, 2019|url-status=live}} and two sons, born in October 2013{{cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/ivanka-trump-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-second-child-with-husband-jared-kushner-20131510/|title=Ivanka Trump Gives Birth to Baby Boy, Second Child With Husband Jared Kushner|work=Us Weekly|first=Nicole|last=Eggenberger|date=October 15, 2013|access-date=February 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015120948/http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/ivanka-trump-gives-birth-to-baby-boy-second-child-with-husband-jared-kushner-20131510|archive-date=October 15, 2013|url-status=live}} and March 2016.{{cite web |title=Ivanka Trump Gives Birth to Theodore James Kushner |publisher=NBC News |date=March 28, 2016 |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/donald-s-daughter-ivanka-trump-gives-birth-theodore-james-kushner-n546401 |access-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328083113/http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/donald-s-daughter-ivanka-trump-gives-birth-theodore-james-kushner-n546401 |archive-date=March 28, 2016}}

In 2004, Kushner's father pleaded guilty to eighteen felony counts of tax fraud, election violations, and witness tampering.[https://nymag.com/news/features/57891/ The legacy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407225233/https://nymag.com/news/features/57891/ |date=April 7, 2020}}, New York Magazine, July 10, 2009 (He retaliated against his own sister who was a cooperating witness in the case.) The case against Charles Kushner was prosecuted by Chris Christie, who later became Governor of New Jersey and, for a period was part of Donald Trump's election campaign team in 2016. Christie subsequently claimed that Jared Kushner was responsible for having him fired as revenge for sending his father to prison.[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/politics/chris-christie-charles-kushner.html Chris Christie Says Jared Kushner's Father Committed a 'Loathsome' Crime] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407230707/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/us/politics/chris-christie-charles-kushner.html |date=April 7, 2020}}, New York Times, January 20, 2019[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116034649/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html |date=November 16, 2016}}, The New York Times, November 15, 2016

In 2017, federal disclosures suggested Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump had assets worth at least $240 million, and as much as $740 million.{{cite web |last1=Slack |first1=Donovan |last2=Singer |first2=Paul |last3=Schouten |first3=Fredreka |title=White House Top Aides Raked in Millions Last Year |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/31/white-house-to-disclose-finances-of-top-trump-aides-friday-evening/99871542/ |website=USA Today |access-date=April 30, 2017 |date=March 31, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429115311/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/31/white-house-to-disclose-finances-of-top-trump-aides-friday-evening/99871542/ |archive-date=April 29, 2017}} They also have an art collection, estimated to be worth millions, that was not mentioned in the financial disclosures initially.{{cite magazine |last1=Harwood |first1=Erika |title=Jared Kushner's Art Collection Lands Him in Ethical Hot Water |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-art-collection-financial-disclosure |access-date=June 1, 2017 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=May 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601221236/http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-art-collection-financial-disclosure |archive-date=June 1, 2017 |url-status=live}} The United States Office of Government Ethics has said that the updated disclosures comply with the regulations and laws.{{cite web|last1=Carter|first1=Brandon|title=Kushner disclosed additional assets in amended financial disclosure form: report|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374243-kushner-discloses-additional-assets-in-amended-financial-disclosure/|website=The Hill|access-date=February 16, 2018|date=February 16, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216233624/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/374243-kushner-discloses-additional-assets-in-amended-financial-disclosure|archive-date=February 16, 2018}}

Kushner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2019 and underwent treatment for it during the Trump Administration, he recounts in his political memoir.{{Cite news |last=Haberman |first=Maggie |date=July 25, 2022 |title=Kushner Says He Was Treated for Thyroid Cancer While in White House |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/politics/jared-kushner-thyroid-cancer.html |access-date=January 19, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112063121/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/us/politics/jared-kushner-thyroid-cancer.html |url-status=live }} In August 2022 he underwent a second thyroid surgery.{{cite news | url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kushner-has-second-thyroid-surgery-full-recovery-expected-2022-08-30/ | title=Kushner has second thyroid surgery, full recovery expected | newspaper=Reuters | date=August 30, 2022 | access-date=January 12, 2023 | archive-date=January 12, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112063114/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kushner-has-second-thyroid-surgery-full-recovery-expected-2022-08-30/ | url-status=live }} Kushner appeared in the 2022 documentary Unprecedented.{{cite web |last1=Buncombe |first1=Andrew |date=July 6, 2022 |title=Alex Holder: How a little known British filmmaker came to be at the centre of the case against Trump |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unprecedented-documentary-release-date-jan-6-b2116802.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716174804/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unprecedented-documentary-release-date-jan-6-b2116802.html |archive-date=July 16, 2022 |access-date=July 22, 2022 |website=Independent}}

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• {{Cite news |last=Kushner |first=Jared |date=March 14, 2021 |title=Opinion {{!}} Opportunity Beckons in the Mideast |language=en-US |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/opportunity-beckons-in-the-mideast-11615750526 |access-date=June 9, 2022 |issn=0099-9660}}
• {{Cite book |last=Kushner |first=Jared |title-link=Breaking History|title=Breaking history: a White House memoir |date=2022 |isbn=978-0-06-322148-2 |edition=First|location=New York, NY |oclc=1319741976}}

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• "[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/fashion/life-in-the-fishbowl-for-jared-kushner.html Citizen Kushner]" – article in The New York Times, June 24, 2011
• {{Cite magazine |last=Kissinger |first=Henry |author-link=Henry Kissinger |title=Jared Kushner |url=https://time.com/collection-post/4742700/jared-kushner-2/ |access-date=June 10, 2022 |magazine=Time|date=April 19, 2017 }}
• [http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/here-s-jared-kushner-s-full-statement-congress-n785836 Here's Jared Kushner's Full Statement to Congress]
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