Who Is Jared Kushner? Things To Know About Donald Trump's Son-in-law
It looks like the mystery behind Jared Kushner's voter registration as a woman is finally solved. The New York State Board of Elections confirmed that the US President Donald Trump's son-in-law had registered to vote as a male.
Board of Elections executive director Michael Ryan told The New York Daily News the database error happened from their side and not Kushner. He said Kushner's ambiguous New Jersey registration might have made the database error.
"It does happen from time to time. I wouldn't call it a common occurrence," Ryan told the Daily News.
The information obtained by Lexis Nexis from the 2009 database showed that Kushner enrolled under female gender in his voter's registration.
Wired which had obtained the photo of his voter's registration, had revealed the news that Kushner's had registered to vote as a woman.
But who is Jared Kushner? Here are some interesting facts about him.
A wealthy businessman
Apart from serving as a senior advisor to Trump, Kushner is also an investor, real-estate developer, and newspaper publisher - Observer.
The most influential man in Trump's administration
Kushner was the architect of Trump's digital, online, and social media campaigns. He worked with minimal resources enlisting talent from Silicon Valley to run a 100-person social-media team dubbed "Project Alamo".
He is considered to be one of Trump's closest advisors along with Steven Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, and Reince Priebus.
Fresher in politics
Kushner had no experience in politics, except that he was a member of the Institute of Politics for a semester during his first year at Harvard. He has been criticised for his lack of experience in politics, but his father-in-law supported him.
"Honestly, Jared is a very successful real estate person, but I actually think he likes politics more than he likes real estate. But he's very good at politics," Trump said last year.
Trump pushed Kushner to take charge of brokering peace in Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Be it dealing with foreign countries or taking charge of any situation, Kushner played the part of the "power centre" among the others in the White House.
His relationship with Ivanka Trump
Kushner met Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump in 2007 during a business lunch.
"They very innocently set us up thinking that our only interest in one another would be transactional," Ivanka told Vogue magazine in an interview in 2015. "Whenever we see them we're like, '[It's] the best deal we ever made!'"
Ivanka converted to Judaism and married Kushner in 2009. They have three children together - Arabella Rose Kushner, 6, Theodore James Kushner, 1, and Joseph Frederick Kushner, 3.
A doting father and a family man
Kushner is a doting father. His photos with children on social media show that he is very caring. "You see in life that things can be taken from you, whether it's money, status or freedom," Kushner told the Guardian in 2008. "But the things that can't be taken are the things that are most important to work to achieve, such as love and family and friendships ", he further added.
His family
Kushner had to shoulder responsibilities right from the beginning and his family business was one of them. He was a 27-year-old student pursuing a dual MBA alongside a law degree from the New York University when he took over his father's business.
Kushner wanted to become a lawyer but his father Charles Kushner's arrest in 2008 made him change his goals. He became the CEO of Kushner's Company instead.
"Seeing my father's situation, I felt what happened was obviously unjust in terms of the way they pursued him. I just never wanted to be on the other side of that and cause pain to the families I was doing that to, whether right or wrong. The moral weight of that was probably a bit more than I could carry." Kushner revealed in an interview with the Real Deal magazine in 2014, as he openly spoke about being an accidental CEO.
