Jared Corey Kushner was born on January 10,1981 and is an American businessman, investor, and former government official.
86 Facts About Jared Kushner
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Jared Kushner is the son-in-law of President Donald Trump through his marriage to Ivanka Trump, and served as a senior advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2021.
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Jared Kushner was Director of the Office of American Innovation.
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For much of his career, Kushner worked as a real-estate investor in New York City, especially through the family business Kushner Companies.
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Jared Kushner 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.
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Jared Kushner met Ivanka Trump around 2005, and the couple married in 2009.
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Jared Kushner became involved in the newspaper industry after purchasing The New York Observer in 2006.
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Jared Kushner 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.
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Jared Kushner played a significant role in the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, and was at one point seen as its de facto campaign manager.
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Around Trump's election, Jared Kushner divested from his family business, but was frequently accused of conflicts of interest as he profited from policy proposals that he himself pushed for within the Trump administration.
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Jared Kushner became Senior Advisor to President Trump in 2017, and held the position until Trump left office in 2021.
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Jared Kushner was the primary Trump administration participant for the Middle East Peace Process, authoring the Trump peace plan 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.
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Jared Kushner played an influential role in the Trump administration's COVID-19 response.
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Since leaving the White House, Jared Kushner founded Affinity Partners, a private equity firm investing in Israeli and American companies expanding in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
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Jared Kushner's father was friends with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and attended several dinners with them.
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Jared Kushner graduated from Harvard with honors in 2003, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government.
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Jared Kushner was an active real estate investor during his college years, and increased the Jared Kushner Companies' presence throughout the New York City real estate market.
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Jared Kushner was the face of the deal but his father Charles Kushner pushed him to do the deal.
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In 2011, Jared Kushner purchased a 130,000 square foot office tower at 200 Lafayette Street in Manhattan for $50 million from, selling it two years later for $150 million.
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In 2013, Jared Kushner co-founded WiredScore, a global organization that provides a digital connectivity certification rating the quality and resilience of digital infrastructure in buildings.
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Jared Kushner did not identify these business relationships in his January 2017 government financial-disclosure form.
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Jared Kushner did disclose his ownership of BFPS Ventures, the company that housed his stake in Cadre.
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In 2006, Jared Kushner purchased The New York Observer, a weekly New York City newspaper, for $10 million, outcompeting a bid by Trifecta Enterprises, a group headed by Robert De Niro.
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Kaplan was followed by a series of short-lived successors until Jared Kushner hired Elizabeth Spiers in 2011.
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In January 2013, Jared Kushner hired a new editor-in-chief, Ken Kurson.
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Jared Kushner stepped down from his newspaper role in January 2017 to pursue a role in President Donald Trump's administration.
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Jared Kushner had been a lifelong Democrat prior to his father-in-law Donald Trump entering politics.
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Jared Kushner had donated over $10,000 to Democratic campaigns starting at the age of 11.
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Jared Kushner had no prior involvement in campaign politics or in government before Trump's campaign.
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Jared Kushner has helped as a speechwriter, and was tasked with working to establish a plan for Trump's White House transition team.
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Jared Kushner 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.
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On July 5,2016, Jared 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.
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Jared Kushner was responding to his own paper's editorial by Dana Schwartz criticizing Kushner's involvement with the Trump campaign.
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On January 9,2017, Jared Kushner was named Senior Advisor to the President.
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Jared Kushner consequently resigned as CEO of Kushner Companies, and as publisher of the Observer.
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Jared Kushner sat in on a meeting between her father, then-president-elect Donald Trump, and Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
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In late March 2017, Jared Kushner was given the new role of leading the "White House Office of American Innovation", where Jared Kushner reportedly has been focusing on improving governmental efforts with regard to Veterans Affairs, information-technology contracting, and the opioid crisis.
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Jared 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.
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Jared 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.
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Jared 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.
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Jared 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.
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Between April and November 2016, Kushner had two undisclosed phone calls with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I Kislyak.
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That month, US intelligence officials who were monitoring Kislyak reportedly overheard him relaying to Moscow a request from Jared Kushner to establish a "secret and secure communications channel" with the Kremlin using Russian diplomatic facilities.
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Also in December 2016, Kushner met with Sergey N Gorkov, a trained Russian spy who then headed Vnesheconombank, a Russian state-owned bank.
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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Jared Kushner met with Gorkov briefly as part of his role in the transition, and as a diplomatic conduit to the State Department.
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In July 2017, Jared 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.
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In early November 2017, Jared Kushner was interviewed by investigators from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office.
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Bloomberg reported that Jared 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.
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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.
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Jared Kushner attempted to raise money from the Persian Gulf states for a new investment firm he has founded.
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Jared Kushner then traveled to Palestine to meet President Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to restart a peace process in the Middle East.
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The next day, Jared 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.
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Jared Kushner was an influential advisor to President Trump, and shaped the administration's actions.
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At Trump's order, Jared 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.
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The Jared 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.
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The New York Times reported that one way that Jared 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.
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Early on during the outbreak, Jared Kushner advised Trump that the media was exaggerating the dangers of the coronavirus outbreak; at the time, Trump downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus.
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Jared 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.
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The Washington Post wrote that the address that Jared Kushner, who had "zero expertise in infectious diseases and little experience marshaling the full bureaucracy behind a cause", helped write was "widely panned".
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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 Jared Kushner had ties with.
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Jared Kushner's brother, Joshua, co-founded and owns Oscar Health, and Jared Kushner himself was a partial owner of the firm before joining the White House.
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In May 2020, Jared Kushner reportedly told those involved in the coronavirus response that the coronavirus was under control and that there would not be a second wave.
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Jared Kushner did not participate in the Trump administration's attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
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Jared Kushner met with Biden administration security advisors Jake Sullivan and Jeffrey Zients to prepare for transition of power.
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Jared Kushner was the highest-ranking Trump administration official interviewed to date, as well as the first Trump family member to be interviewed.
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Jared Kushner's firm received commitments of more than $3 billion by the end of 2021 to invest in American and Israeli companies that are expanding in India, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia.
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Investors include $2 billion from the Saudi public investment fund, with Jared Kushner stating that he hopes to open an "investment corridor between Saudi Arabia and Israel", seen internationally as a "sign of warming ties between two historic rivals".
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Jared Kushner sought funds for the new company through the sovereign wealth funds of Gulf countries.
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The House Oversight Committee said on June 2,2022, that it had opened an investigation into whether Jared Kushner had traded on his government position to get the deal.
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Jared Kushner wrote a memoir, Breaking History: A White House Memoir, that was published in August 2022.
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Jared Kushner was sworn in on January 22,2017 and was given the office which is physically the closest to the Oval Office.
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On January 18,2017, immediately after his appointment as senior advisor to President Trump, Jared Kushner requested Top Secret security clearance, using "Standard Form 86 : Questionnaire for National Security Positions".
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Jared Kushner's lawyers said that the omissions were "an oversight", and that "a member of [Jared Kushner's] staff had prematurely hit the 'send' button" before the form was completed.
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White House sources said that part of the reason Jared Kushner had not yet been granted permanent security clearance was that he was under investigation by Robert Mueller.
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Jared Kushner finally received permanent Top Secret security clearance on May 23,2018.
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Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was reportedly one of the individuals that Jared 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 Jared Kushner should stop using WhatsApp.
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Jared Kushner reportedly used WhatsApp to communicate with his coronavirus team during March and April 2020.
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Ethics watchdogs have since confirmed that Jared 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.
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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 been granted to Sasha and Malia Obama.
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In May 2021, Jared Kushner used the taxpayers' money to visit Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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The extra-luxurious hotel was selected as per Jared Kushner's decision, citing the requirement of high security.
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Jared Kushner has a younger brother, Joshua, and two sisters, Dara and Nicole.
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Jared Kushner married Ivanka Trump in a Jewish ceremony on October 25,2009.
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In 2004, Jared Kushner's father pleaded guilty to eighteen felony counts of tax fraud, election violations, and witness tampering.
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Christie subsequently claimed that Jared Kushner was responsible for having him fired as revenge for sending his father to prison.
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Jared Kushner was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2019 and underwent treatment for it during the Trump Administration, he recounts in his political memoir.