Jared Kushner said his work in the White House has been focused on “cleaning up the messes” Joe Biden made after the former vice president said it was “improper” for President Trump to appoint his son-in-law and daughter Ivanka Trump to senior positions.
“He’s entitled to his opinion but, a lot of the work that the president’s had me doing over the last three years has actually been cleaning up the messes that Vice President Biden left behind,” Kushner told Israel’s Channel 13.
“He has his opinion. I think that President Trump is entitled to pick his team. We’ve worked with him for a long time and I think we have done a good job of trying to help him being successful,” Kushner said.
Biden condemned Trump’s decision to appoint his daughter and her husband to senior administration roles. He told CBS’ 60 Minutes that he would not appoint any of his children to government jobs if he’s elected in 2020.
Kushner cited criminal justice reform as one of the “messes.” He said the reforms passed during the Trump presidency “rolled back a lot of the very harsh laws that were created and partially written by Vice President Biden over 20 years ago which put a lot of African Americans in prison and really destroyed a generation and did a lot of harm to our country.”
The 1994 crime bill has been a liability for Biden, a front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, on the campaign trail. He has also taken heat for his statements on busing and touting his friendships with segregationist senators.
“We inherited an ISIS caliphate, Iran was strong, Libya was a mess and a lot of our allies felt abandoned. We worked very hard over the last three years to try and rebuild the Middle East and to put it in a much more stable framing,” Kushner added.
