somebody close as jared. is to president trump. a meeting kushner arranged between president trump. and mexican president. broke down when trump demanded his proposed border wall be on the agenda. jared took over. and he talked to the president. he talked to me. quietly. but very effectively. he brought back the interabs and he has been instrumental in driving the relationship since then. october 2018. trump announced a new provisional trade agreement with mexico and canada. agreement kushner played a key role in the negotiating. this is a terrific deal. for all of us. we wouldn t be here today if it weren t for several people. who contributed so much to this endeavor. first, the president key advise ir and my good friend jared kushner was my partner in leading the u.s. negotiationing team. even as he negotiated over some of the worlds most volatile
as a result of that and the technology the president raised more money online than any other republican has ever raised. but it was not enough just to promote their candidate. as in any campaign, there was a search for intelligence they could use against their opponent. that led to one of the most notorious episodes of the campaign. when word reached trump tower that the russians might have damaging information about hillary clinton donald trump junior set up a meeting. he forwarded the email chain to kushner and asked him to join. jared kushner was present at the june 2016 meeting. at trump tower. between don junior and a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin. the purpose of that meeting was set up so that the russians could give dirt to don jr. about hillary clinton. but kushner s lawyer insists that jared was in the dark about the meeting s agenda. everybody needs to understand the chronology of that meeting. jared was told about a meeting that happened in trump tower
and one of the most meaningle. jared was critical to that. jared and his family had a relationship with him for years. so, the fact that the embassy got moved from jared s perspective is a massive win. not everyone in the region was celebrating. the deadly clashes of the border between israel and ga sa. dozens of palestinians killed. thousands more wounded. the palestinians claimed jerusalem at the capitol. and kushner the designated mideast peace negotiator hadn t consulted them about the embassy move. the u.s. was taking sides in the dispute over the city. 128 countries and the united nations join the palestinians in opposing the u.s. action. even ambassador ross a supporter of the move was dismayed. there was a need for the arab leaders to play a role in the
rivals, not any perceived political rivals. anything else. i really believe that jared never got the credit that he deserves for being an excellent publisher. this guy invested. he said yes to reasonable plans. soon after buying the paper, the 26-year-old kushner went to a business lunch that would change his life. associates wanted him to meet another young real estate executive. ivanka trump. i could see right away how much chemistry there was between them. i thought they re probably going to get married. they are the most suited for one another couple. they re both ambitious in the same way. they both work in the same industry and that work is important to them. they both grew up under incredible scrutiny. and not all of it positive. they both have parents who occasionally attract intense negative emotions. they were lucky to find a partner who understood what that s like. but from the beginning there was a serious impediment to the relationship. jared comes from a v
directly with the president and the president takes his advice. but over time, kushner s primary responsibilities were quietly cut back to the middle east. prison reform and trade negotiations with mexico and canada. i think that jared kushner discovered that the white house is more complicated than he had expected. so he began to increasingly focus his energies on discreet priorities, things that he thought he could make a difference on. a big priority was criminal justice reform. something on jared s mind since the days of visiting his father in an alabama prison. this initiative i have personal experience with. i spent some time thinking about from the, from the white house what can be done. what he realized is that there s a lot of changes that can be made and that he is in a position along with great people on the outside, both from the left and the right. one of those outside people was mark holden, who heads a prison reform group affiliated