Former White House adviser Jared Kushner sat down with Fox News host Steve Doocy on Tuesday to discuss the recent raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, but he didn’t seem to want to discuss the items confiscated.
On Aug. 8, the FBI executed a search warrant to enter Mar-a-Lago, taking several binders and boxes of documents. Three days later, a judge unsealed the search warrant to reveal many of the documents were labeled top secret or confidential.
“Apparently, there were 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago over the last year or so, and they think they’ve gotten them all by now,” Doocy said to Kushner.
Doocy referenced a Monday New York Times article stating that since Trump left office, the National Archives received over 300 documents, with an initial batch of over 150 classified documents in January.
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Fox News’ Steve Doocy: “Apparently there were 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago … Why would the former president have that many classified things at Mar-a-Lago.”
Jared Kushner: “I’m not familiar with what exactly the contents were … Be very careful with what you read.” pic.twitter.com/VSZWRoesoh
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When asked why he believed the former president would have so many things at his home, Kushner dodged the question, stating that he was not entirely familiar with what the contents were.
He mentioned how an “innocent meeting with the Russian ambassador” during the transition between Trump and President Joe Biden was later referred to as “treason” by media outlets such as CNN and the New York Times.
“And then it turns out, such a thing never really happened,” Kushner said. “And so, I just think you have to be very careful with what you read and, obviously, just wait for the facts to develop.”
Kushner spoke out against the raid on Sunday for the first time since the event occurred, the Washington Examiner previously reported. The former adviser said in an interview with Fox News host Mark Levin that the raid was part of a “long-standing playbook” against Trump.
“It’s giving a lot of people who want to believe in the fairness of the judicial system and our democracy a lot of pause and concern,” he said.
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It has also been speculated that the former adviser could be a possible informant. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former acting White House chief of staff, said an informant would have come from within Trump’s “inner circle.” That includes about six to eight people, including Kushner, said Mulvaney.
Kushner has not addressed the informant claims.
