Kushner positioned himself as the measured alter ego to a volatile president, the one who others turned to for help in calming down or reasoning with Mr. Trump, who said she should “go back to her crazy husband.” The Two-to-One Formulaĭuring his four years in the White House, Mr. Trump to accept his loss, something she did not say publicly at the time even this much-delayed acknowledgment of reality drew a rebuke from Mr. Kellyanne Conway, the former White House counselor and fierce Trump loyalist, reported in her new book that she told Mr. “Nobody’s convinced me otherwise.” She disappeared in the final weeks of the administration. Hope Hicks, long one of his closest advisers, told him it was time to move on. Trump did not believe the election had been stolen but kept quiet or checked out, including White House officials and campaign aides. One of the most striking realizations that emerged from the book research was how many people around Mr. Nearly all of those who spoke requested anonymity to discuss private conversations and meetings. Kushner’s postelection activities is based on interviews with a wide array of figures close to him and the former president for a forthcoming book by this reporter and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker magazine called “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” to be published by Doubleday on Sept. Kushner has said he abided by all legal and ethical guidelines while in public service. Kushner’s activities in his final months in the White House are now also coming under the scrutiny of another Democratic-run House committee investigating whether he used his position to secure a $2 billion investment in his new private equity firm from a prominent Saudi Arabian wealth fund. Kushner, who otherwise has not spoken at length publicly about the events after the 2020 election, and plans to show video excerpts from his testimony along with Ivanka Trump’s. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol opens public hearings this week. Kushner played could come into sharp relief once the congressional committee investigating the Jan. Kushner would be the moderating force on a president who resisted moderation. It was the final act in the myth that Mr. He returned to the region to meet with figures who would also be helpful to him later in making money after leaving the White House. While the president’s son-in-law had arguably been the most influential adviser to the president through four years, weighing in at times and carefully cultivating his reputation, he chose at that pivotal moment to focus instead on his personal project of Middle East diplomacy. Kushner’s decision to withdraw from the most consequential moment of the Trump presidency left few effective counterweights to the plotters seeking to subvert the will of the voters to hang on to power.
Giuliani were in charge, according to people he confided in, effectively ceding the field to those who would try to overturn the election. Trump that he would not be involved if Mr. Concluding that the president would not listen even to family members urging him to accept the results, Mr. Trump farcically false stories of dead voters, stuffed ballot boxes, corrupted voting machines and foreign plots. Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who relayed to Mr. Their decision to move on opened a vacuum around the president that was filled by conspiracy theorists like Rudolph W. While the president spent the hours and days after the polls closed complaining about imagined fraud in battleground states and plotting a strategy to hold on to power, his daughter and son-in-law were already washing their hands of the Trump presidency. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the election had been stolen, according to people close to them. They saw which way the votes were going and understood that, barring some unforeseen surprise, the president had lost his bid for a second term. Kushner later told the story to aides and associates, the White House’s young power couple felt no need to wait for the official results. The election had not even been called for Joseph R.
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. 5, 2020, barely 24 hours after President Donald J. Follow live updates on the House committee hearing on the Jan.
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