Jared Kushner is one of the Trump administration’s key voices on China policy. He played an instrumental role in arranging the meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping that…
Jared Kushner is one of the Trump administration’s key voices on China policy. He played an instrumental role in arranging the meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping that took place at Trump’s private club in Florida last month.
Like Trump, Kushner hasn’ t totally divested from his business. He’s maintained a significant ownership interest in the company, and portions he has sold are now owned by a trust controlled by his family, raising concerns that the sale is merely a paper transaction.
And yet on Saturday, his sister, Nicole Kushner Meyer, was in Beijing making a sales pitch to wealthy investors in a presentation where she mentioned her brother and her family’s close connections with the president.
“In 2008, my brother Jared Kushner joined the family company as CEO, and recently moved to Washington to join the administration, ” Meyer said. A slide featured an image of Trump and described him as a “key decision maker” with regard to the visa program she was trying to exploit for $500,000 investments in Kushner Companies’ luxury apartment development in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Reporters who attended the publicly advertised event were kicked out during Meyer’s presentation. A Washington Post journalist says she was “threatened, harassed, and forced to delete recordings” of the pitch.
In exchange for their investment, investors receive a two-year visa that comes with a likelihood of subsequently receiving permanent status.
