Jared Kushner made his first public comments about the FBI’s recent Mar-a-Lago raid during an appearance on Fox News’ Life, Liberty & Levin.
Kushner fiercely defended his father-in-law on the show.
“In the way that drives his enemies so crazy, they always over-pursue him and make mistakes in trying to get him. And that’s basically what happened here,” he told host Mark Levin.
He continued, “But, you know, what’s happening now is the same thing being done by the same people in the same way. They’re leaking to the same sources. They’re manufacturing fabulous claims that then get debunked, you know, shortly thereafter.”
“His fiercest critics really accuse him of breaking norms,” the former senior advisor added. “But what we’re seeing here and what we’ve seen constantly over time is that they do that exact thing. They break all the norms in order to try to get Trump.”
Kushner’s comments follow growing speculation that he was in fact the one to tip off the FBI.
President Trump’s former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said that the mole would have been one of “six to eight people” in Trump’s inner circle.
Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and his niece, Mary Trump, also pointed to Kushner as a likely suspect.
Levin did not ask Kushner about who the informant might have been.
The FBI raided former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on August 8. They were conducting an investigation regarding his alleged mishandling of classified, presidential documents.
Trump said in a statement the same day, “My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”
At a Matt Gaetzr eelection campaign event on Monday, Donald Trump Jr.suggested that “it would probably be good” if “Donald Trump actually still had the nuclear codes.”
He added, “Our enemies… might actually be like, ‘okay, maybe, let’s not mess with them.'”
On Monday, Trump filed a motion in Florida asking for a special master to review the documents taken during the raid.
The motion would prohibit the government from examining all materials until a third-party has reviewed whether any documents are protected by attorney-client privilege.
