EXCLUSIVE -- Former President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner claims in his upcoming book that The New York Times falsely reported that he downplayed COVID internally during the early stages of the pandemic, Fox News Digital has learned.
In an advanced excerpt of his new book, "Breaking History: A White House Memoir," Kushner, who is now 41, and served as a senior advisor to Trump, pushed back on the Gray Lady in a section of the memoir about the beginning of his involvement in the COVID response. Kushner wrote that deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell whispered in his ear during a March 2020 meeting about a completely different topic that then-President Trump was considering shutting down travel from Europe, and he should be there for the important decision.
"Up until that moment, I had not been involved in the White House response to COVID-19," he wrote.
"As the virus spread, the nation’s top doctors and health-care experts began visiting the White House on a daily basis, following a predictable flight pattern that started down in the Situation Room, before moving up to the chief of staff’s office, over to the Oval Office, and then back down to the Situation Room," Kushner continued. "It was impossible not to notice the buzz of activity—or the mounting worries that it represented. And it certainly caught my attention when Trump put the vice president in charge of the task force on February 26, in response to growing concerns about testing shortages nationwide."
He then...
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