Jared Kushner ‘under fire from family’ for defense of Trump

Donald Trump’s Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner has reportedly incurred the ire of his own family for invoking his grandparents’ story of survival in the Holocaust to defend the GOP candidate from accusations of anti-Semitism.

“I have a different take-away from my Grandparents’ experience in the war,” writes his cousin Mark Kushner on Facebook in a blurb accompanying a link to Jared’s op-ed in defense of his wife Ivanka’s father. “It is our responsibility as the next generation to speak up against hate. Anti-semitism or otherwise.”

But, according to Politico, another relative was less diplomatic.

“When an out of touch with reality nominee hires an out of touch with reality campaign manager, who is also a son­-in-­law, you get the BS Jared wrote,” says cousin Jacob Schulder. “That my grandparents have been dragged into this is a shame. Thank you Jared for using something sacred and special to the descendants of Joe and Rae Kushner to validate the sloppy manner in which you’ve handled this campaign… for the sake of the family name, which may have no meaning to you but still has meaning to others, please don’t invoke our grandparents in vain just so you can sleep better at night. It is self serving and disgusting.”