Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former top adviser Jared Kushner has shown no interest in helping the former president weather a string of storms that threaten to sink his 2024 campaign, according to a new report on Friday. rice field.
A New York magazine has revealed a dinner the 76-year-old Trump had at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 22 with anti-Semitic rapper Kanye West and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Since then, Kushner has been searching for responses from his father-in-law’s early campaign for “help… public support.”
Meanwhile, Kushner, 41, is accustomed to handing out Trump’s phone numbers so that supplicants call him directly rather than acting as an intermediary.
“He was like, ‘Look, I’m out. I’m really out,'” the outlet said, citing a source.
Before Trump announced his third straight presidential campaign on Nov. 15, Kushner and wife Ivanka Trump made no secret of their lack of interest in participating.
“Both of them feel burned in Washington and do not want to go back and expose themselves and their children to another bitter campaign,” an insider explained to the Post at the time.
Kushner attended the campaign kickoff at Mar-a-Lago, but Ivanka did not. He has no intention of getting involved in politics. ”
A New York magazine source acknowledged that Kushner showed up at Trump’s announcement to send a “complicated message”, saying it was “a combination of respecting family members and setting clear lines in your life.” called.
Trump told reporter Olivia Nuzzi that his entire family supports him “100%” despite his conspicuous absence from the 2024 presidential inauguration.
“I think my whole family will be with me. It doesn’t mean they will work on the campaign, but they will always be with me 100%. You don’t want to see that happen, right? It’s a messy business.” ”
The 45th president, when asked about how he will weather the aftermath of a dinner party in West Fuentes, insisted: No advice needed! I’m fine I think you are good at giving advice. ”
But President Trump’s advisers in 2024 painted a very different picture.
“No one around him wants that from him,” an adviser told New York. “Forget about Jared and Ivanka. Don Jr. doesn’t want him to do it.” The only person who wants him to do that is Eric’s wife, Lara, because she’s so ambitious.”
Trump was elected to a discontinuous term in office amid controversy, including a federal investigation into Trump’s attempt to reverse his 2020 election loss and the retention of classified government documents in Maralago after he resigned. is about to become the second president ever.
Meanwhile, a series of recent polls show Trump trailing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the virtual Republican primary, ruled by the popular 44-year-old ” the former president was ruffling when asked about it.
“Well, I live in Florida…but you know, when I say he’s ‘ruling’…” the former president responded to Nuzzi before pausing.
“You know, these people forget,” he said. ‘Politicians tend to forget’
“I don’t think anyone can beat me in the primary,” Trump said.