The New York Times similarly said earlier that same day that Kushner and wife, Ivanka, met with West in Telluride, Colorado the weekend before. (West ultimately won about seventy-one thousand votes nationwide.)'įorbes reported three months before the 2020 election that Kushner was having 'near-daily' conversations with West.
Kushner had personally worked to recruit a campaign manager for West, in a far-fetched scheme he appeared to believe would help siphon Black voters away from Biden. 'He had spent some time early in the summer helping goad the rapper Kanye West into an improbable independent run for the presidency. 'The president’s son-in-law possessed limited campaign experience but Tom Brady–like confidence in his political intuition,' the book explained.
The new book 'This Will Not Pass,' by New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, suggests that President Donald Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner was using rapper Kanye West for political gain.
