Former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro suggested on Thursday that Jared Kushner faked his cancer diagnosis in his memoir to generate sympathy to sell his book.
In his book, “Breaking History: A White House Memoir, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law wrote that he was diagnosed and treated for thyroid cancer while working as a senior advisor in the White House in 2019, but hid it from Trump.
During an interview with Newsmax on Thursday night Navarro was asked why Kushner would not tell Trump about his diagnosis.
“The thyroid thing, that came out of nowhere,” Navarro said in a clip shared by Mediaite. “I saw the guy every day. There’s no sign that he was in any pain or danger or whatever. I think it’s just sympathy to try to sell his book now.”
Navarro also said Kushner is not worthy of the trust Trump placed in him because: “time after time, whether it’s mismanagement of the campaign, mismanagement of the pandemic, taking too much credit for NAFTA, taking too much credit for the Abraham Accords. I mean, the guy was just a one-man wrecking crew, 36 years old I think when he got in there with no training. His only qualification was that he was the boss’s son-in-law.”
