Kushner says Chuck Schumer told family friends ‘Jared’s going to jail’

Jared Kushner with his wife Ivanka Trump in 2020. Kushner became his father-in-law’s chief adviser on the campaign trail and then in the White House. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the US Senate, upset Jared Kushner’s mother by telling her friends her son would go to jail over his ties to Russia, Kushner said on Wednesday.

“My poor mom, I told her to stop, you know, reading whatever. I said, ‘I promise you, we didn’t do anything wrong, it’s good,’” Kushner told the Lex Fridman Podcast. “But you know, she’d call me [to] say … ‘Our friends on the Upper East Side were talking with Chuck Schumer, who says Jared’s going to jail.’”