Jared Kushner: NBA players 'very fortunate' they can 'take a night off from work'

White House adviser Jared Kushner said NBA players are “very fortunate” to have had the ability and financial means to simply decide not to play in Wednesday’s playoff games in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake.

During a Thursday morning interview on CNBC, President Trump’s son-in-law said that the players are lucky that they are in “the financial position where they’re able to take a night off from work without having to have the consequences to themselves financially. So they have that luxury, which is great. Look, I think with the NBA, there’s a lot of activism. And I think that they’ve put a lot of slogans out.”