THE LATEST | CANADAMore from Judd Legum: In a February 2024 interview with Axios, Kushner stated that he would not resume his role advising his father-in-law if Trump were to win the presidency again. Kushner told Axios’ Dan Primack that he made commitments to run his private equity firm “for the long term” and “my commitment is to my investors, to my firm, to my employees, [and] to my partners.” Pressed by Primack, Kushner said he would not accept a role in the new administration even if asked by Trump.
Later in the interview, Primack asked whether, as a result of accepting billions in investments from public investment funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, it would be “very difficult… to do any sort of foreign policy work” in a second Trump administration. “I’m an investor now,” Kushner replied. “I served in government, and I think my track record is pretty impeccable. Now I’m a private investor…