As a former advisor to US President Trump, he has long been at the center of power. Then Jared Kushner, husband of Trump’s daughter Ivanka, was diagnosed with cancer. He is now making this public for the first time. However, he couldn’t keep it a secret from one for long.
Donald Trump’s ex-adviser and son-in-law and Jared Kushner wants to publish his memoirs next month and will also make public a previously kept secret thyroid cancer. As the Reuters news agency reports, citing excerpts from the book, Kushner was diagnosed in 2019.
According to excerpts from the book, Kushner wrote that White House physician Sean Conley pulled him aside on the Presidential plane, Air Force One, when Trump flew to Texas to tell him his test results showed he had cancer and an operation had to be planned immediately.
Kushner then had surgery just before Thanksgiving 2019. In the years that followed, he managed to keep the cancer diagnosis a secret, even though he worked in the White House, where leaks kept occurring.
However, his father-in-law Donald Trump apparently knew anyway, as Kushner writes in his book: “The day before the surgery, Trump called me into the Oval Office and asked his team to close the door. ‘Are you nervous about the surgery?’ asked he.” “How do you know about that?” Kushner asked. “I’m the president. I know everything. I understand that you want to keep these things to yourself. I like to keep these things to myself too. You’ll be fine. Don’t worry about work. We’ve got everything under control here ‘ Kushner quoted Trump as saying.
The operation, which took place during tense trade deal negotiations with China, removed a significant portion of his thyroid, Kushner said. He was also a key negotiator in a US-brokered normalization deal between Israel and several Arab countries in 2020. He now heads global investment firm Affinity Partners and has retired from politics for the time being.