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Jared Kushner

November 23, 2023

Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman, investor, and former government official.[4] He is the son-in-law of former president Donald Trump through his marriage to Ivanka Trump, and served as a senior advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2021.[5] He was also Director of the Office of American Innovation.

Jared Kushner
Kushner in 2019
Director of the Office of American Innovation
In office
March 27, 2017 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
DeputyJohn F. Kelly
Ja'Ron Smith
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Senior Advisor to the President
In office
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byValerie Jarrett
Brian Deese
Shailagh Murray
Succeeded byMike Donilon
Cedric Richmond
Personal details
Born
Jared Corey Kushner

(1981-01-10) January 10, 1981 (age 42)
Livingston, New Jersey, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (2018–present)
Other political
affiliations		Democratic (1999–2009)
Independent (2009–2018)
Spouse
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(m. 2009)​
Children3
Parent
Relatives
Education
Occupation
  • Businessman
  • investor
AwardsOrder of the Aztec Eagle (2018)[1][2][3]

For much of his career, Kushner worked as a real-estate investor in New York City, especially through the family business Kushner Companies. He took over the company after his father Charles Kushner was convicted for 18 criminal charges, including illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering in 2005, although Charles was controversially pardoned by Trump in 2020. Jared met Ivanka Trump around 2005, and the couple married in 2009. He also became involved in the newspaper industry after purchasing The New York Observer in 2006. He was registered as a Democrat and donated to Democratic politicians for much of his life, but registered as Independent in 2009 and eventually as Republican in 2018. He played a significant role in the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, and was at one point seen as its de facto campaign manager. Around Trump's election, Kushner divested from his family business, but was frequently accused of conflicts of interest when he profited from policy proposals for which he personally advocated within the Trump administration.[6]

He became Senior Advisor to President Trump in 2017, and held the position until Trump left office in 2021. His appointment was followed by concerns of nepotism. Here, he led the administration's effort to pass the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform bill signed into law in 2018. Kushner was the primary Trump administration participant for the Middle East Peace Process, authoring the Trump peace plan[7] and facilitating the talks that led to the signing of the Abraham Accords and other normalization agreements between Israel and various Arab states in 2020.[8] Kushner also played an influential role in the Trump administration's COVID-19 response. Despite initially advising Trump that the media was exaggerating the threat of the disease, he eventually became a leader in the federal effort to procure medical supplies and develop a vaccine as a founding board member on Operation Warp Speed.[9] He was a leading broker in the US–Mexico–Canada agreement,[10] for which he was awarded honors by the Mexican government.

Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners, a private equity firm investing in Israeli and American companies expanding in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.[11][12][13]

Early life and education

Jared Corey Kushner was born on 10 January 1981 in Livingston, New Jersey, to Seryl Kushner (née Stadtmauer) and Charles Kushner, a real-estate developer and convicted felon. His father was friends with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and attended several dinners with them. Morris Stadtmauer was Jared's maternal grandfather.[14] His paternal grandparents, Reichel and Joseph Kushner, were Holocaust survivors who came to the U.S. in 1949 from Navahrudak, now in Belarus.[15][16] 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.[17][18]

Raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family,[19] 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.[20][21] At Harvard, Kushner was elected into the Fly Club, supported the campus Chabad house,[22][23] 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.[24][25][26] Kushner graduated from Harvard with honors in 2003, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government.[27][28]

Kushner then enrolled in the joint-J.D./M.B.A. program at 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.[29]

Business career

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.[30] 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.[31] As of 2019, Kushner's net worth is estimated at $800 million.[32]

Real estate

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.[33]

 
Kushner Companies purchased 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007 for $1.8 billion, the most expensive single property purchase in US history at the time.[34]

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.[34] He assumed the role of CEO in 2008.[35] 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[36] and bring in Vornado Realty Trust as a 50% equity partner in the ownership of the building.[37] By that time, Kushner Companies had lost more than $90 million on its investment.[38] He was the face of the deal but his father Charles Kushner pushed him to do the deal.[39]

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.[40][41] On August 18, 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.[42] 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.[43][44]

In 2013, Kushner co-founded WiredScore, a global organization that provides a digital connectivity certification rating the quality and resilience of digital infrastructure in buildings.[45]

Throughout 2013 to 2014, Kushner and his company acquired more than 11,000 units throughout New York, New Jersey, and the Baltimore area.[46] In May 2015, he acquired a 50.1% stake of the Times Square Building from Africa Israel Investments Ltd. for $295 million.[47]

 
In May 2015, Kushner purchased a majority stake of One Times Square for $295 million.[47]

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.[48][49][50] In early 2015, Soros Fund Management financed the startup with a $250 million credit line.[48][51] Kushner did not identify these business relationships in his January 2017 government financial-disclosure form.[48][52] He did, however, disclose his ownership of BFPS Ventures, the company that housed his stake in Cadre.[48][53] In 2020, his ownership stake in Cadre was estimated at $25–50 million.[54]

Newspaper publishing

 
Kushner (right) with The New York Observer'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,[55] 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,[56] with family members providing the backing for his investments.[57] The buildings, which he purchased for $8.3 million in 2000, sold four years later for $13 million.[58]

After purchasing the Observer, Kushner published it in tabloid format.[59] Since then, he has been credited with increasing the Observer's online presence and expanding the Observer Media Group.[60][61] With no substantial experience in journalism, Kushner could not establish a good relationship with the newspaper's veteran editor-in-chief, Peter W. Kaplan.[62] "This guy doesn't know what he doesn't know", Kaplan remarked about Kushner, to colleagues, at the time.[62] 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.[63] It has been alleged that Kushner used the Observer as propaganda against rivals in real estate.[63][64] 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.[63]

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".[65] 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.[66][67]

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.[68]

Politics

Political background

Jared Kushner had been a lifelong Democrat prior to his father-in-law Donald Trump entering politics.[69] He had donated over $10,000 to Democratic campaigns[70] 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.[71] 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.[72] In 2014 he continued to donate to Democratic groups,[71] but joined his father-in-law Donald Trump's nascent US presidential campaign in the field of the Republican candidates in 2015.[77] Kushner had no prior involvement in campaign politics or in government before Trump's campaign.[78]

Presidential campaign

 
Kushner and the Trump family, pictured at a campaign victory party in Des Moines, Iowa, on February 1, 2016

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."[79] 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.”[80][81]

Kushner, together with Paul Manafort and Brad Parscale, hired Steve Bannon's firm Cambridge Analytica to support the Trump campaign.[82] Kushner has also helped as a speechwriter, and was tasked with working to establish a plan for Trump's White House transition team.[83] 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.[84] 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.[79][85] Kushner's "sprawling digital fundraising database and social media campaign" has been described as "the locus of his father-in-law's presidential bid."[86]

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."[87] Federal Election Commission filings indicate the Trump campaign spent $343 million, about 59 percent as much as the Clinton campaign.[88]

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.[89] 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."[90] His estranged cousin Marc responded to the op-ed on Facebook that his lesson from the story of his grandparents was to renounce hate.[91]

Presidential transition

 
Japanese PM Shinzō Abe meets with Ivanka, president-elect Donald Trump, and Jared Kushner, November 2016

During the presidential transition, Kushner was said to be his father-in-law's "confidant,"[92] and one of Donald Trump's closest advisors, even more so than Trump's four adult children.[93] 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.[94]

Senior Advisor to the President

 
Kushner during the April 2017 Syrian missile strike operation

On January 9, 2017, Kushner was named Senior Advisor to the President[95] (formally, "Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor").[96] He consequently resigned as CEO of Kushner Companies, and as publisher of the Observer.[97]

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.[98] 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.[99]

 
Kushner with President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in March 2017

In late March 2017, Kushner was also given the new role of leading the "White House Office of American Innovation",[100][101] where Kushner reportedly has been focusing on improving governmental efforts with regard to Veterans Affairs, information-technology contracting, and the opioid crisis.[102]

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.[103][11]

Kushner underwent a series of steps to comply with government ethics requirements, conferring with the Office of Government Ethics during the presidential transition and divesting of foreign investments, all common stock, and more than 35 other assets. Kushner's business activities in China drew press scrutiny for mixing government with business.[104][105][106] Kushner's investments in real estate and financial services have also drawn controversy for conflicts of interest.[107][108] 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.[52][109] 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.[110] 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.[111] 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.[112]

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.[113]

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."[114][115] 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."[115] 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).[116]

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.[6]

Firing of Chris Christie

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.[117][118] 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."[119] 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."[120] 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.[121][122]

Russia investigation

Main articles: Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and Trump Tower meeting

Kushner's contacts with Russian officials came under scrutiny as part of the larger federal investigation into Russian interference in the election.[123] 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"[124]

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.[125]

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.[126] 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.[127] 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".[128] 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.[129] The Democratic National Committee cyber attacks were revealed later that week.[126]

Between April and November 2016, Kushner had two undisclosed phone calls with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak.[130] (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.)[130] In December 2016, Kushner met with Kislyak.[131] 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".[132][133]

Also in December 2016, Kushner met with Sergey N. Gorkov, a trained Russian spy who then headed Vnesheconombank (VEB), a Russian state-owned bank.[131][134][135] 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.[136] 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.[137] 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.[129]

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.[138] He also released a public statement.[139] 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.[140]

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.[141] 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.[142]

 
President Trump, joined by Kushner and Netanyahu behind, signs the proclamation recognizing Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, March 2019

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.[143] In December 2016, Nader attended a New York meeting between the United Arab Emirates officials and Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon.[144] Mueller also investigated Kushner's possible ties to Qatar, Israel and China.[145] 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.[146]

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.[147] The transcript was released on February 3, redacted nearly in its entirety.[148][149]

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.[150]

 
Dedication ceremony of the Embassy of the United States in Jerusalem, May 2018

Criminal justice reform — FIRST STEP Act

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, H.R. 5682) which President Trump signed into law in December 2018.[151][152][153][154] 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.[155][156] 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.[157]

Middle East peace plan and Abraham Accords

 
Kushner is said to be the main architect of Trump's Israeli–Palestinian peace plan.

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.[158][159][160] On August 24, 2017, Kushner traveled to Israel to talk to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu[161] (with whom Kushner has longstanding personal links and family ties, causing Palestinians to distrust him[162][163]). He then traveled to Palestine to meet President Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to restart a peace process in the Middle East.[161]

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.[164] 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."[165] 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.[166] Both the West Bank settlers' Yesha Council[167] and the Palestinian leadership rejected the plan: the former because it proposed a path to a Palestinian state,[167] the latter arguing it is too biased in favor of Israel.[164] 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.[168]

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.[169][170] The talks led to the August establishment of diplomatic ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,[171][172] normalizing what had long been informal relations between the two countries[173] 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.[174][175] As part of the agreement, Netanyahu suspended the annexation of West Bank settlements, which the Kushner peace plan had approved months earlier.[176] The first commercial flight from Israel to the UAE later arrived in Abu Dhabi with a U.S.-Israeli delegation led by Kushner.[177]

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".[178] 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.[178]

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.[179]

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.[180]

On October 23, 2020, Israel and Sudan agreed to normalize ties, making Sudan the third Arab country to set aside hostilities in two months.[181] 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.[181]

On December 10, 2020, President Trump announced that Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco agreed to establish full diplomatic relations.[182] 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.[183] As a component of the deal, the United States agreed to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara.[184]

On November 30, 2020, Kushner and Berkowitz traveled to Saudi Arabia for negotiations on the Qatar diplomatic crisis.[185] 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.[186] The negotiations led to a breakthrough,[187] 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.[188] For his efforts in the Middle East, Kushner has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.[189]

US–Mexico–Canada Agreement

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.[190] Working with counterparts in the Mexican and Canadian governments, Kushner convinced Trump to set aside these plans and instead enter into formal trade negotiations.[191][192] When the Senate confirmed Robert Lighthizer as United States Trade Representative in May 2017,[193] 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.[194] 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.[195] 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.[196]

COVID-19 pandemic actions and response

 
Kushner, Vice President Mike Pence 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.[197][198] 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.[199][200] 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.[197] 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.[199][201] 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.[197] 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.[202]

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.[203] 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.[204] 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.[205] 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".[198] In the address, Trump blamed Europeans and the Chinese for the virus, describing the virus as a "foreign virus".[206] During the address, Trump inaccurately said "all travel from Europe" would be prohibited, and that the travel prohibitions would apply to goods.[207] 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.[207] 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.[208] Trump reportedly blamed Kushner for the widely panned address, telling aides that he should not have listened to Kushner.[205]

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.[198] Google later clarified their involvement, stating that the website would initially serve the Bay Area.[209] 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.[198] These drive-through testing sites were later used to support distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.[210] 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.[211]

"...And the notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile; it's not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use." Comments by Jared Kushner that drew criticism.[212][213]

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.[214] 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."[214] 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.[215]

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.[216] At that time, Governor Andrew Cuomo projected that New York would need 37,000 ventilators.[217] New Jersey, Louisiana, and Michigan also requested thousands of ventilators.[218] 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."[219] 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.[220] 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."[221] 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.[221][222]

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.[223] 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.[224]

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."[225]

2020 election aftermath

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.

When vice presidential advisor Marc Short requested his help in reasoning with president Trump, Kushner replied that the vice president “is a big boy,” and if he disagreed with the president on a legal issue, he should bring in his lawyers. He stated “I'm too busy working on Middle East peace right now, Marc.”

During the January 6th 2021 United States Capitol attack, he was returning from a diplomatic trip around the Persian gulf states.

On 11 January 2021, he arranged a meeting between vice-president Mike Pence and Donald Trump to try to reconcile their relationship.[226]

On 31 March 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.[227]

Career after Trump Administration

Saudi Arabia investment fund

Kushner's firm landed the more than $2 billion only six months after Kushner stopped working as a senior adviser for the president,[228] 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",[12][13] seen internationally as a "sign of warming ties between two historic rivals".[229]

Within the Trump administration, Kushner had been a staunch defender of Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman.[11] In 2021, Kushner started an investment firm, Affinity Partners. He sought funds for the new company through the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries.[230][231] 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.[11] The firm primarily depended on Saudi money, as, by April 2022, it only had $2.5 billion under its management.[11] According to ethics experts, the investment created the appearance of potential payback for Kushner.[11] 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.[232]

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."[233]

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."[234] 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."[235] 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.[236]

Political memoir: Breaking History

Kushner wrote a memoir, Breaking History: A White House Memoir, that was published in August 2022.[226]

Foreign policy and political commentary

In a March 2021 op-ed published by the WSJ, Kushner claimed that the last vestiges of the Arab-Israeli conflict were occurring, and praised the foreign policy of the Joe Biden administration in its handling of China and Iran.[237] The op-ed generated some responses from the political class.[238][239][240][241]

He wrote "This negotiation is high-stakes and, thanks to his policies, America holds a strong hand. Iran is feigning strength, but its economic situation is dire and it has no ability to sustain conflict or survive indefinitely under current sanctions... America should be patient and insist that any deal include real nuclear inspections and an end to Iran's funding of foreign militias."

“The Biden administration, however, has one asset that the Trump administration never had—a relationship with Iran. While many were troubled by the Biden team’s opening offer to work with Europe and rejoin the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, I saw it as a smart diplomatic move,” Kushner wrote. “The Biden administration called Iran’s bluff. It revealed to the Europeans that the JCPOA is dead and only a new framework can bring stability for the future. When Iran asked for a reward merely for initiating negotiations, President Biden did the right thing and refused.”

“The table is set. If it is smart, the Biden administration will seize this historic opportunity to unleash the Middle East’s potential, keep America safe, and help the region turn the page on a generation of conflict and instability,” he wrote.

He also appeared in the 2022 documentary Unprecedented.[242]

Controversies

Allegations of nepotism

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.[243] 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.[244] 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,[245][246] after Kushner's lawyer, Jamie Gorelick claimed the 1967 law does not apply to the White House because it is not an 'agency'.[247] 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.[248] Kushner was sworn in on January 22, 2017[249] and was given the office which is physically the closest to the Oval Office.[250]

Security clearance

 
Kushner and Gen. Joseph Dunford, 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,[131] using "Standard Form 86 (SF86): Questionnaire for National Security Positions".[251][252] 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.[131] Failure to disclose pertinent contacts can cause security clearances to be declined or revoked, and an intentional failure to disclose can result in imprisonment.[253] Kushner's lawyers said that the omissions were "an oversight",[254] and that "a member of [Kushner's] staff had prematurely hit the 'send' button" before the form was completed.[251]

By July 2017, Kushner had updated his SF86, this time disclosing contacts with foreign nationals.[253] 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.[253]

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.[255] 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.[256][257]

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.[258][259] 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.[260]

Kushner finally received permanent Top Secret security clearance on May 23, 2018.[261][262] In January 2019, Trump told The New York Times that he had not intervened to grant Kushner's security clearances.[255] On February 8, 2019, Kushner's wife Ivanka also denied that Trump had intervened to grant her or Kushner's security clearances.[263][264] 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.[260] 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.[265]

Conflicts of interest

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.[202]

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.[266][267] 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."[268] 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.[269]

After her father was elected president, global sales of Ivanka Trump merchandise surged.[270] 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[271] giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka Trump brand jewelry, bags and spa services in the world's second-largest economy.[270] 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.[272]

Use of WhatsApp for White House duties

While a White House official, Kushner used WhatsApp to conduct government business. This raised concerns among cybersecurity experts who said this left his communications vulnerable to potential exploitation by foreign governments and hackers.[273] 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 the bin Salman was involved in the hacking of Jeff Bezos's phone through WhatsApp communications, which led to warnings that Kushner should stop using WhatsApp.[274] Kushner reportedly used WhatsApp to communicate with his coronavirus team during March and April 2020.[275] 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.[276]

Pardoning white collar criminals

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,".[277] 

Secret Service protection

Jared Kushner was in the list of 13 family members and nearly 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.[278]

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.[279]

Personal life

 
Kushner with Ivanka and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in May 2017

Kushner has a younger brother, Joshua, and two sisters, Dara and Nicole.[280] He married Ivanka Trump in a Jewish ceremony on October 25, 2009. They had met in 2005 through mutual friends.[281][282][283] Kushner and his wife Ivanka (who converted to Judaism in 2009[284]) are Modern Orthodox Jews, keep a kosher home, and observe the Jewish Shabbat.[285][286][287] They have three children, a daughter born in July 2011[288] and two sons, born in October 2013[289] and March 2016.[290]

In 2004, Kushner's father pleaded guilty to eighteen felony counts of tax fraud, election violations, and witness tampering.[291] (He retaliated against his own sister who was a cooperating witness in the case.)[30] 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.[291] Christie subsequently claimed that Jared Kushner was responsible for having him fired as revenge for sending his father to prison.[292][293]

In 2017, federal disclosures suggested Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump had assets worth at least $240 million, and as much as $740 million.[107][294] They also have an art collection, estimated to be worth millions, that was not mentioned in the financial disclosures initially.[295] The United States Office of Government Ethics has said that the updated disclosures comply with the regulations and laws.[296]

Kushner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2019 and underwent treatment for it during the Trump Administration, he recounts in his political memoir.[297] In August 2022 he underwent a second thyroid surgery.[298]

Honors

Foreign honors

Domestic honors

  • National Security Medal[301]
  • Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service[299]

Selected publications

  • Kushner, Jared (March 14, 2021). "Opinion | Opportunity Beckons in the Mideast". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  • Kushner, Jared (2022). Breaking history: a White House memoir (First ed.). New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-06-322148-2. OCLC 1319741976.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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jared, kushner, jared, corey, kushner, born, january, 1981, american, businessman, investor, former, government, official, former, president, donald, trump, through, marriage, ivanka, trump, served, senior, advisor, trump, from, 2017, 2021, also, director, off. Jared Corey Kushner born January 10 1981 is an American businessman investor and former government official 4 He is the son in law of former president Donald Trump through his marriage to Ivanka Trump and served as a senior advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2021 5 He was also Director of the Office of American Innovation Jared KushnerKushner in 2019Director of the Office of American InnovationIn office March 27 2017 January 20 2021PresidentDonald TrumpDeputyJohn F KellyJa Ron SmithPreceded byPosition establishedSucceeded byPosition abolishedSenior Advisor to the PresidentIn office January 20 2017 January 20 2021PresidentDonald TrumpPreceded byValerie JarrettBrian DeeseShailagh MurraySucceeded byMike DonilonCedric RichmondPersonal detailsBornJared Corey Kushner 1981 01 10 January 10 1981 age 42 Livingston New Jersey U S Political partyRepublican 2018 present Other politicalaffiliationsDemocratic 1999 2009 Independent 2009 2018 SpouseIvanka Trump m 2009 wbr Children3ParentCharles Kushner father RelativesKushner familyTrump family in laws EducationHarvard University BA New York University JD MBA OccupationBusinessmaninvestorAwardsOrder of the Aztec Eagle 2018 1 2 3 For much of his career Kushner worked as a real estate investor in New York City especially through the family business Kushner Companies He took over the company after his father Charles Kushner was convicted for 18 criminal charges including illegal campaign contributions tax evasion and witness tampering in 2005 although Charles was controversially pardoned by Trump in 2020 Jared met Ivanka Trump around 2005 and the couple married in 2009 He also became involved in the newspaper industry after purchasing The New York Observer in 2006 He was registered as a Democrat and donated to Democratic politicians for much of his life but registered as Independent in 2009 and eventually as Republican in 2018 He played a significant role in the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and was at one point seen as its de facto campaign manager Around Trump s election Kushner divested from his family business but was frequently accused of conflicts of interest when he profited from policy proposals for which he personally advocated within the Trump administration 6 He became Senior Advisor to President Trump in 2017 and held the position until Trump left office in 2021 His appointment was followed by concerns of nepotism Here he led the administration s effort to pass the First Step Act a criminal justice reform bill signed into law in 2018 Kushner was the primary Trump administration participant for the Middle East Peace Process authoring the Trump peace plan 7 and facilitating the talks that led to the signing of the Abraham Accords and other normalization agreements between Israel and various Arab states in 2020 8 Kushner also played an influential role in the Trump administration s COVID 19 response Despite initially advising Trump that the media was exaggerating the threat of the disease he eventually became a leader in the federal effort to procure medical supplies and develop a vaccine as a founding board member on Operation Warp Speed 9 He was a leading broker in the US Mexico Canada agreement 10 for which he was awarded honors by the Mexican government Since leaving the White House Kushner founded Affinity Partners a private equity firm investing in Israeli and American companies expanding in the Middle East Africa and Asia 11 12 13 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Business career 2 1 Real estate 2 2 Newspaper publishing 3 Politics 3 1 Political background 3 2 Presidential campaign 3 3 Presidential transition 3 4 Senior Advisor to the President 3 4 1 Firing of Chris Christie 3 4 2 Russia investigation 3 4 3 Criminal justice reform FIRST STEP Act 3 4 4 Middle East peace plan and Abraham Accords 3 4 5 US Mexico Canada Agreement 3 4 6 COVID 19 pandemic actions and response 3 4 7 2020 election aftermath 4 Career after Trump Administration 4 1 Saudi Arabia investment fund 4 2 Political memoir Breaking History 4 3 Foreign policy and political commentary 5 Controversies 5 1 Allegations of nepotism 5 2 Security clearance 5 3 Conflicts of interest 5 4 Use of WhatsApp for White House duties 5 5 Pardoning white collar criminals 5 6 Secret Service protection 6 Personal life 7 Honors 8 Selected publications 9 See also 10 References 11 External links 12 Further readingEarly life and educationJared Corey Kushner was born on 10 January 1981 in Livingston New Jersey to Seryl Kushner nee Stadtmauer and Charles Kushner a real estate developer and convicted felon His father was friends with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and attended several dinners with them Morris Stadtmauer was Jared s maternal grandfather 14 His paternal grandparents Reichel and Joseph Kushner were Holocaust survivors who came to the U S in 1949 from Navahrudak now in Belarus 15 16 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 17 18 Raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family 19 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 20 21 At Harvard Kushner was elected into the Fly Club supported the campus Chabad house 22 23 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 24 25 26 Kushner graduated from Harvard with honors in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government 27 28 Kushner then enrolled in the joint J D M B A program at 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 amp Garrison 29 Business careerFollowing 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 30 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 31 As of 2019 update Kushner s net worth is estimated at 800 million 32 Real estate 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 33 nbsp Kushner Companies purchased 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007 for 1 8 billion the most expensive single property purchase in US history at the time 34 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 34 He assumed the role of CEO in 2008 35 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 36 and bring in Vornado Realty Trust as a 50 equity partner in the ownership of the building 37 By that time Kushner Companies had lost more than 90 million on its investment 38 He was the face of the deal but his father Charles Kushner pushed him to do the deal 39 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 40 41 On August 18 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 42 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 43 44 In 2013 Kushner co founded WiredScore a global organization that provides a digital connectivity certification rating the quality and resilience of digital infrastructure in buildings 45 Throughout 2013 to 2014 Kushner and his company acquired more than 11 000 units throughout New York New Jersey and the Baltimore area 46 In May 2015 he acquired a 50 1 stake of the Times Square Building from Africa Israel Investments Ltd for 295 million 47 nbsp In May 2015 Kushner purchased a majority stake of One Times Square for 295 million 47 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 48 49 50 In early 2015 Soros Fund Management financed the startup with a 250 million credit line 48 51 Kushner did not identify these business relationships in his January 2017 government financial disclosure form 48 52 He did however disclose his ownership of BFPS Ventures the company that housed his stake in Cadre 48 53 In 2020 his ownership stake in Cadre was estimated at 25 50 million 54 Newspaper publishing nbsp Kushner right with The New York Observer 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 55 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 56 with family members providing the backing for his investments 57 The buildings which he purchased for 8 3 million in 2000 sold four years later for 13 million 58 After purchasing the Observer Kushner published it in tabloid format 59 Since then he has been credited with increasing the Observer s online presence and expanding the Observer Media Group 60 61 With no substantial experience in journalism Kushner could not establish a good relationship with the newspaper s veteran editor in chief Peter W Kaplan 62 This guy doesn t know what he doesn t know Kaplan remarked about Kushner to colleagues at the time 62 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 63 It has been alleged that Kushner used the Observer as propaganda against rivals in real estate 63 64 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 63 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 65 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 66 67 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 68 PoliticsPolitical background Jared Kushner had been a lifelong Democrat prior to his father in law Donald Trump entering politics 69 He had donated over 10 000 to Democratic campaigns 70 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 71 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 72 In 2014 he continued to donate to Democratic groups 71 but joined his father in law Donald Trump s nascent US presidential campaign in the field of the Republican candidates in 2015 77 Kushner had no prior involvement in campaign politics or in government before Trump s campaign 78 Presidential campaign nbsp Kushner and the Trump family pictured at a campaign victory party in Des Moines Iowa on February 1 2016From 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 79 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 80 81 Kushner together with Paul Manafort and Brad Parscale hired Steve Bannon s firm Cambridge Analytica to support the Trump campaign 82 Kushner has also helped as a speechwriter and was tasked with working to establish a plan for Trump s White House transition team 83 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 84 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 79 85 Kushner s sprawling digital fundraising database and social media campaign has been described as the locus of his father in law s presidential bid 86 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 87 Federal Election Commission filings indicate the Trump campaign spent 343 million about 59 percent as much as the Clinton campaign 88 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 89 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 90 His estranged cousin Marc responded to the op ed on Facebook that his lesson from the story of his grandparents was to renounce hate 91 Presidential transition nbsp Japanese PM Shinzō Abe meets with Ivanka president elect Donald Trump and Jared Kushner November 2016During the presidential transition Kushner was said to be his father in law s confidant 92 and one of Donald Trump s closest advisors even more so than Trump s four adult children 93 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 94 Senior Advisor to the President nbsp Kushner during the April 2017 Syrian missile strike operationOn January 9 2017 Kushner was named Senior Advisor to the President 95 formally Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor 96 He consequently resigned as CEO of Kushner Companies and as publisher of the Observer 97 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 98 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 99 nbsp Kushner with President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in March 2017In late March 2017 Kushner was also given the new role of leading the White House Office of American Innovation 100 101 where Kushner reportedly has been focusing on improving governmental efforts with regard to Veterans Affairs information technology contracting and the opioid crisis 102 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 103 11 Kushner underwent a series of steps to comply with government ethics requirements conferring with the Office of Government Ethics during the presidential transition and divesting of foreign investments all common stock and more than 35 other assets Kushner s business activities in China drew press scrutiny for mixing government with business 104 105 106 Kushner s investments in real estate and financial services have also drawn controversy for conflicts of interest 107 108 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 52 109 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 110 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 111 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 112 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 113 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 114 115 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 115 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 116 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 6 Firing of Chris Christie 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 117 118 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 119 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 120 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 121 122 Russia investigation Main articles Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and Trump Tower meeting Kushner s contacts with Russian officials came under scrutiny as part of the larger federal investigation into Russian interference in the election 123 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 124 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 125 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 126 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 127 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 128 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 129 The Democratic National Committee cyber attacks were revealed later that week 126 Between April and November 2016 Kushner had two undisclosed phone calls with the Russian ambassador Sergey I Kislyak 130 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 130 In December 2016 Kushner met with Kislyak 131 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 132 133 Also in December 2016 Kushner met with Sergey N Gorkov a trained Russian spy who then headed Vnesheconombank VEB a Russian state owned bank 131 134 135 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 136 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 137 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 129 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 138 He also released a public statement 139 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 140 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 141 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 142 nbsp President Trump joined by Kushner and Netanyahu behind signs the proclamation recognizing Israel s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights March 2019Mueller 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 143 In December 2016 Nader attended a New York meeting between the United Arab Emirates officials and Kushner Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon 144 Mueller also investigated Kushner s possible ties to Qatar Israel and China 145 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 146 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 147 The transcript was released on February 3 redacted nearly in its entirety 148 149 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 150 nbsp Dedication ceremony of the Embassy of the United States in Jerusalem May 2018Criminal justice reform FIRST STEP Act 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 H R 5682 which President Trump signed into law in December 2018 151 152 153 154 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 155 156 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 157 Middle East peace plan and Abraham Accords nbsp Kushner is said to be the main architect of Trump s Israeli Palestinian peace plan 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 158 159 160 On August 24 2017 Kushner traveled to Israel to talk to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 161 with whom Kushner has longstanding personal links and family ties causing Palestinians to distrust him 162 163 He then traveled to Palestine to meet President Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to restart a peace process in the Middle East 161 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 164 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 165 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 166 Both the West Bank settlers Yesha Council 167 and the Palestinian leadership rejected the plan the former because it proposed a path to a Palestinian state 167 the latter arguing it is too biased in favor of Israel 164 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 168 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 169 170 The talks led to the August establishment of diplomatic ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel 171 172 normalizing what had long been informal relations between the two countries 173 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 174 175 As part of the agreement Netanyahu suspended the annexation of West Bank settlements which the Kushner peace plan had approved months earlier 176 The first commercial flight from Israel to the UAE later arrived in Abu Dhabi with a U S Israeli delegation led by Kushner 177 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 178 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 178 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 179 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 180 On October 23 2020 Israel and Sudan agreed to normalize ties making Sudan the third Arab country to set aside hostilities in two months 181 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 181 On December 10 2020 President Trump announced that Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco agreed to establish full diplomatic relations 182 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 183 As a component of the deal the United States agreed to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara 184 On November 30 2020 Kushner and Berkowitz traveled to Saudi Arabia for negotiations on the Qatar diplomatic crisis 185 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 186 The negotiations led to a breakthrough 187 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 188 For his efforts in the Middle East Kushner has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 189 US Mexico Canada Agreement See also USMCAShortly 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 190 Working with counterparts in the Mexican and Canadian governments Kushner convinced Trump to set aside these plans and instead enter into formal trade negotiations 191 192 When the Senate confirmed Robert Lighthizer as United States Trade Representative in May 2017 193 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 194 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 195 In recognition of these efforts President Pena 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 196 COVID 19 pandemic actions and response nbsp Kushner Vice President Mike Pence and Peter Navarro during a coronavirus update briefing on April 2 2020Amid the COVID 19 pandemic Kushner was an influential advisor to President Trump and shaped the administration s actions 197 198 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 199 200 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 197 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 199 201 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 197 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 202 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 203 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 204 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 205 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 198 In the address Trump blamed Europeans and the Chinese for the virus describing the virus as a foreign virus 206 During the address Trump inaccurately said all travel from Europe would be prohibited and that the travel prohibitions would apply to goods 207 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 207 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 208 Trump reportedly blamed Kushner for the widely panned address telling aides that he should not have listened to Kushner 205 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 198 Google later clarified their involvement stating that the website would initially serve the Bay Area 209 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 198 These drive through testing sites were later used to support distribution of the coronavirus vaccine 210 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 211 source source source source source source source track And the notion of the federal stockpile was it s supposed to be our stockpile it s not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use Comments by Jared Kushner that drew criticism 212 213 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 214 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 214 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 215 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 216 At that time Governor Andrew Cuomo projected that New York would need 37 000 ventilators 217 New Jersey Louisiana and Michigan also requested thousands of ventilators 218 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 219 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 220 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 221 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 221 222 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 223 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 224 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 225 2020 election aftermath 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 When vice presidential advisor Marc Short requested his help in reasoning with president Trump Kushner replied that the vice president is a big boy and if he disagreed with the president on a legal issue he should bring in his lawyers He stated I m too busy working on Middle East peace right now Marc During the January 6th 2021 United States Capitol attack he was returning from a diplomatic trip around the Persian gulf states On 11 January 2021 he arranged a meeting between vice president Mike Pence and Donald Trump to try to reconcile their relationship 226 On 31 March 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 227 Career after Trump AdministrationSaudi Arabia investment fund Kushner s firm landed the more than 2 billion only six months after Kushner stopped working as a senior adviser for the president 228 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 12 13 seen internationally as a sign of warming ties between two historic rivals 229 Within the Trump administration Kushner had been a staunch defender of Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman 11 In 2021 Kushner started an investment firm Affinity Partners He sought funds for the new company through the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries 230 231 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 11 The firm primarily depended on Saudi money as by April 2022 it only had 2 5 billion under its management 11 According to ethics experts the investment created the appearance of potential payback for Kushner 11 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 232 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 233 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 234 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 235 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 236 Political memoir Breaking History Kushner wrote a memoir Breaking History A White House Memoir that was published in August 2022 226 This section needs expansion You can help by adding to it March 2023 Foreign policy and political commentary In a March 2021 op ed published by the WSJ Kushner claimed that the last vestiges of the Arab Israeli conflict were occurring and praised the foreign policy of the Joe Biden administration in its handling of China and Iran 237 The op ed generated some responses from the political class 238 239 240 241 He wrote This negotiation is high stakes and thanks to his policies America holds a strong hand Iran is feigning strength but its economic situation is dire and it has no ability to sustain conflict or survive indefinitely under current sanctions America should be patient and insist that any deal include real nuclear inspections and an end to Iran s funding of foreign militias The Biden administration however has one asset that the Trump administration never had a relationship with Iran While many were troubled by the Biden team s opening offer to work with Europe and rejoin the Iran deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action I saw it as a smart diplomatic move Kushner wrote The Biden administration called Iran s bluff It revealed to the Europeans that the JCPOA is dead and only a new framework can bring stability for the future When Iran asked for a reward merely for initiating negotiations President Biden did the right thing and refused The table is set If it is smart the Biden administration will seize this historic opportunity to unleash the Middle East s potential keep America safe and help the region turn the page on a generation of conflict and instability he wrote He also appeared in the 2022 documentary Unprecedented 242 ControversiesAllegations of nepotism 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 243 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 244 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 245 246 after Kushner s lawyer Jamie Gorelick claimed the 1967 law does not apply to the White House because it is not an agency 247 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 248 Kushner was sworn in on January 22 2017 249 and was given the office which is physically the closest to the Oval Office 250 Security clearance nbsp Kushner and Gen Joseph Dunford Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Iraqi defence minister Erfan al Hiyali in Baghdad on April 3 2017On January 18 2017 immediately after his appointment as senior advisor to President Trump Kushner requested Top Secret security clearance 131 using Standard Form 86 SF86 Questionnaire for National Security Positions 251 252 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 131 Failure to disclose pertinent contacts can cause security clearances to be declined or revoked and an intentional failure to disclose can result in imprisonment 253 Kushner s lawyers said that the omissions were an oversight 254 and that a member of Kushner s staff had prematurely hit the send button before the form was completed 251 By July 2017 Kushner had updated his SF86 this time disclosing contacts with foreign nationals 253 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 253 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 255 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 256 257 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 258 259 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 260 Kushner finally received permanent Top Secret security clearance on May 23 2018 261 262 In January 2019 Trump told The New York Times that he had not intervened to grant Kushner s security clearances 255 On February 8 2019 Kushner s wife Ivanka also denied that Trump had intervened to grant her or Kushner s security clearances 263 264 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 260 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 265 Conflicts of interest 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 202 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 266 267 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 268 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 269 After her father was elected president global sales of Ivanka Trump merchandise surged 270 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 271 giving it monopoly rights to sell Ivanka Trump brand jewelry bags and spa services in the world s second largest economy 270 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 272 Use of WhatsApp for White House duties While a White House official Kushner used WhatsApp to conduct government business This raised concerns among cybersecurity experts who said this left his communications vulnerable to potential exploitation by foreign governments and hackers 273 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 the bin Salman was involved in the hacking of Jeff Bezos s phone through WhatsApp communications which led to warnings that Kushner should stop using WhatsApp 274 Kushner reportedly used WhatsApp to communicate with his coronavirus team during March and April 2020 275 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 276 Pardoning white collar criminals 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 277 Secret Service protection Jared Kushner was in the list of 13 family members and nearly 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 278 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 279 Personal life nbsp Kushner with Ivanka and Saudi Arabia s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in May 2017Kushner has a younger brother Joshua and two sisters Dara and Nicole 280 He married Ivanka Trump in a Jewish ceremony on October 25 2009 They had met in 2005 through mutual friends 281 282 283 Kushner and his wife Ivanka who converted to Judaism in 2009 284 are Modern Orthodox Jews keep a kosher home and observe the Jewish Shabbat 285 286 287 They have three children a daughter born in July 2011 288 and two sons born in October 2013 289 and March 2016 290 In 2004 Kushner s father pleaded guilty to eighteen felony counts of tax fraud election violations and witness tampering 291 He retaliated against his own sister who was a cooperating witness in the case 30 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 291 Christie subsequently claimed that Jared Kushner was responsible for having him fired as revenge for sending his father to prison 292 293 In 2017 federal disclosures suggested Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump had assets worth at least 240 million and as much as 740 million 107 294 They also have an art collection estimated to be worth millions that was not mentioned in the financial disclosures initially 295 The United States Office of Government Ethics has said that the updated disclosures comply with the regulations and laws 296 Kushner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2019 and underwent treatment for it during the Trump Administration he recounts in his political memoir 297 In August 2022 he underwent a second thyroid surgery 298 HonorsForeign honors nbsp Morocco Grand Cordon of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite from King Mohammed VI 299 nbsp Mexico Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle 2018 1 2 3 nbsp Hungary Commander s Cross of the 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