Jared Kushner: Wikipedia profile
His grandmother Rae Kushner was born in Novogrudek, in what is now Belarus.[17] The Nazis arrived in town in 1941 when she was a teenager, killed its Jewish doctors, lawyers, and intellectuals on the square as an orchestra played, and forced her and other girls to scrub their blood from the cobblestones.[17] The Nazis killed her mother and a sister.
.. he was an honors student and a member of the debate, hockey, and basketball teams while at Frisch.[19]
.. Kushner graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree[20][21] in government.
.. His father, Charles Kushner, was arrested on charges of tax evasion, illegal campaign donations, and witness tampering in 2004, and was eventually convicted on all charges (by the then U.S. Attorney Chris Christie)[30] and sentenced to two years in federal prison.
.. Kushner Companies purchased the office building at 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007, for a then-record price of $1.8 billion, most of it borrowed.[27] However, following the property crash in 2008, the cash flow generated by the property was insufficient to cover its debt service, and the Kushners were forced to sell the retail portion in the building to Stanley Chera for more than $1 billion[32] and bring in Vornado Realty Trust as a 50% equity partner
.. In May 2015, he purchased 50.1% of the Times Square Building
.. According to Vanity Fair, under Kushner, the “Observer has lost virtually all of its cultural currency among New York’s elite, but the paper is now profitable and reporting traffic growth
.. Kushner was the architect of Trump’s digital, online and social media campaigns, enlisting talent from Silicon Valley to run a 100-person social-media team
.. He was for a time seen as Trump’s de facto campaign manager, succeeding Corey Lewandowski, who was fired in part on Kushner’s recommendation
.. he was believed to be responsible for the choice of Mike Pence as Trump’s running mate
.. According to Eric Schmidt, “Jared Kushner is the biggest surprise of the 2016 election, Best I can tell, he actually ran the campaign and did it with essentially no resources.”[6] Eric Schmidt said, “Jared understood the online world in a way the traditional media folks didn’t. He managed to assemble a presidential campaign on a shoestring using new technology and won. That’s a big deal. Remember all those articles about how they had no money, no people, organizational structure? Well, they won, and Jared ran it.
.. During the presidential transition, Kushner was said to be his father-in-law’s “confidant”[60] and one of Donald Trump’s closest advisors, even more so than Trump’s four adult children.[61]