Kushner: I told Trump 2024 run is ‘tricky,’ but ‘he’s obviously thinking about it’
Ex-president’s son-in-law says doesn’t know what Trump will ultimately decide, calls FBI Mar-a-Lago raid ‘paperwork issue,’ claims Russia wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine under Trump
Ex-White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Friday that his father-in-law and former US president Donald Trump is “obviously” considering running for re-election in 2024, but acknowledged that doing so would be “tricky.”
Pressed on the matter during an interview with Sky News, Kushner responded, “nobody can speak for him on that.”
“He’s asked me about it. I said, ‘You know, it’s tricky.'”
Kushner sought to avoid elaborating any further but added, “Basically, I know that he’s obviously thinking about it.”
“With Trump, it’s hard to rule anything out… He’s a very flexible thinker,” Kushner said.
“He hates seeing what’s happening in the country,” Trump’s senior adviser continued, calling his father-in-law’s successor Joe Biden an “awful president.”
RT SkyNews "'He hates seeing what's happening in the country'
Jared Kushner says Donald Trump is "thinking" about running for President again in 2024, but "you never know" and admits he prefers the private sector. https://t.co/7XKla8woSX
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He proceeded to hail Trump’s achievements as president and claimed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “never would have happened” had Trump still been president.
Turning to the 2020 election, Kushner did not go as far as to call it “stolen” as Trump has, but he did claim that it had been “sloppy” and that “they changed a lot of rules at the last minute using COVID as a pretense,” without elaborating further.
Asked about the FBI’s raid last month on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, where agents found he had been in possession of top-secret documents, Kushner downplayed the issue.
“This seems like it’s an issue of paperwork that should have been able to be worked out between [the Department of Justice] and him,” Kushner said, adding that he was skeptical of media reporting on the issue.
“I don’t know what was taken, why it was taken and what’s been recovered and what the ramification of that is going to be,” he said.
The Times of Israel Community.