Overview
- Gavin Newsom recounts that in 2018 aboard Marine One, President Trump told a story about trying to set Ivanka up with Tom Brady and called Jared Kushner a “schmuck” as Kushner sat nearby.
- The anecdote appears in Newsom’s new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, and entered wider circulation via a detailed review in The Atlantic.
- Newsom writes that Kushner absorbed the slight, with one account quoting him as replying that he knew he was not the first choice.
- Charles Kushner’s 2005 conviction and later presidential pardon frame renewed attention on his role as U.S. ambassador to France, where French officials recently restricted his access after a missed meeting.
- Jared Kushner holds no official role in the current administration but has reportedly been involved in Middle East talks while running private equity firm Affinity Partners, drawing conflict-of-interest scrutiny.