Will Jared Kushner play a significant role in the second Donald Trump Administration? While the former and soon to be again first son-in-law and his wife Ivanka Trump were not involved in Trump’s 2024 campaign and have said they do not plan on participating in the new Trump White House, sources told CNN that Jared Kushner is expected to play a role in foreign policy.
Both Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump held senior White House posts during Donald Trump’s first term of office. However, it was ever clear what exactly their jobs there were and the two took full advantage of their posts at the seat of power to advance their business interest. That being the case, neither will need to hold a formal position in the second Trump White House in order to continue to promote their own interests.
“No one on the incoming team has what Jared has, and that is trust. Jared earned it, he didn’t have it at the beginning. He earned it. That takes time to build,” a regional diplomat who worked with Jared Kushner during his time at the White House in the first Trump administration told CNN.
Kushner was said to have played an important role in establishing the historic Abraham Accords in the summer of 2020, which established peace treaties between Israel and Two Arab Gulf states the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
“Friendships are forever in this region,” an Israeli source who dealt with the first Trump administration, also told CNN. “My assumption is that his role is much more in his hands than anybody else’s.”
However, Jared Kushner was not being altruistic nor all that diplomatic in his dealings with the Gulf area Arab nations. His VC firm Affinity Partners just happened to raise $2 billion from the Saudi Arabian Sovereign wealth fund called the Public Investment Fund shortly after Trump left office in 2021.
According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Jared Kushner, born on January 10, 1981 in Livingston, New Jersey, is the son of real estate developer Charles Kushner. When his father was imprisoned amid financial and political scandal, Kushner took over the family business and also went into publishing with his purchase of The New York Observer. In 2009, he wed Ivanka Trump, daughter of another real estate mogul, Donald Trump. Kushner served as a close political advisor to Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and his transition to the White House. His grandparents were Holocaust survivors who moved to the United States in 1949. He was named a senior adviser to the president in January 2016.
Jared Kushner’s real estate company currently holds loans that contain millions from both foreign and domestic entities. In 2016, the Kushner family net worth is estimated to be $1.8 billion, the majority of which is in real-estate property holdings, according to Forbes. Kushner and his family are Modern Orthodox Jews, keep a kosher home, and observe the Jewish Sabbath. In 2017, federal disclosures suggested Kushner and his wife had assets worth at least $740 million.
