The House oversight committee is investigating whether Kushner used his White House position to seal a $2bn investment from a Saudi Arabian wealth fund. Kushner, Baker said, was more interested in wrapping up his work on Middle East diplomacy, the subject of his memoir and also, opponents allege, the source of lucrative deal to set up his life out of office. The Times said Kushner’s decision to distance himself from his father-in-law’s lies about election fraud and to prepare to leave Washington “opened a vacuum around the president that was filled by conspiracy theorists like Rudolph W Giuliani and Sidney Powell”.
Donald Trump, for decades a fixture of Manhattan society, now lives in Florida too. With the whole Trump family hugely unpopular in their home city, New York, the move went ahead. The New York Times chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, included the detail in an examination of how Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, tried to distance themselves from efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory which culminated in the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.īaker and his wife, Susan Glasser of the New Yorker, will publish The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, in September.īaker wrote: “On Thursday 5 November 2020, barely 24 hours after President Donald J Trump claimed in the middle of the night that ‘Frankly, we did win this election’, Jared Kushner woke up in his Kalorama mansion and announced to his wife that it was time to leave Washington.
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