According to a recent report, even Donald Trumpโs own son-in-law, Ivankaโs husband Jared Kushner, didnโt buy or believe in the now ex-presidentโs unhinged Bie Lie regarding mass fraud in the 2020 presidential election that Trump claims ultimately led to his brutal loss to Joe Biden.
The Daily Beast published a brutal report titled, These Two Lawyers Breathed Life Into Trumpโs Big Lie, but Did They Even Believe It?, in which they take a deep dive into Jared Kushnerโs thoughts surrounding his father-in-lawโs election loss and subsequent Big Lie.
โIn his final months in office, Trump was surrounded by lieutenants and sycophants willing to take his multi-pronged effort to its logical, menacing extremes. People of influence close to Trump who didnโt believe a word of it played along anyway, and often actively worked to support the outgoing presidentโs bogus claims. According to the knowledgeable sources, Jared Kushner, Trumpโs son-in-law and senior White House aide, privately admitted that a lot of what Trumpโs lawyers were pushing was a fraud and farce,โ the report reads.
As it turns out, Ivankaโs husband was far from the only senior Trump advisor who did not buy into the election conspiracy theories Donald Trump was and continues to peddle.
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โNot long after the 2020 election, one of Trumpโs top personal attorneys, Jay Sekulow, told people in the MAGA orbit that he did not believe the conspiracy theories that some of the other lawyers on the Trump train were spreading, and therefore wanted to distance himself from that effort, according to two former administration officials,โ the Beast writes in their report. โSimilarly, top aides on Trumpโs reelection campaign, including his 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien, alsoโagain, privatelyโexpressed their conclusion that the legal challenges were doomed and that the MAGA lawyersโ work was built on little more than embarrassing conspiracy theories. And yet, they pretended not to be embarrassed, and publicly claimed โwe are here to supportโ Giuliani and his legal team, even as official campaign surrogates were freely admitting that Trump had lost, fair and square.โ
His own people knew all along that Donald Trump was unhinged and incorrect. Yet no one said a word.
Read the full report here.
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