Jared Kushner
American businessman
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| July 8 2024 | Jared Kushner was elected to the Village of Indian Creek Village Council, succeeding Vice Mayor & Village Trustee Javier Holtz. |
| 2023 | Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie publicly criticized Kushner and Trump for the Saudi investment deal, calling it a 'family grift'. |
| 2022 | Appeared in the documentary 'Unprecedented'. |
| 2022 | Awarded the Commander's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, further highlighting his international diplomatic recognition. |
| August 2022 | Underwent a second thyroid surgery. |
| August 2022 | Kushner published his political memoir 'Breaking History: A White House Memoir'. |
| June 2 2022 | The House Oversight Committee opened an investigation into Kushner's $2 billion Saudi investment deal, examining potential trading on his government position. |
| April 2022 | By April, Affinity Partners had only $2.5 billion under management, primarily dependent on Saudi money. |
| March 31 2022 | Voluntarily spoke to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack for six hours, becoming the highest-ranking Trump administration official and first Trump family member to be interviewed about the events. |
| 2021 | Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) invested $2 billion in Kushner's Affinity Partners, despite internal advisers expressing concerns about the investment's risks and management. |
| 2021 | Awarded two significant honors: the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service and the Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle from Morocco |
| 2021 | Awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite by Morocco |
| 2021 | Kushner was among 13 family members and three Cabinet appointees granted continued Secret Service protection six months after Donald Trump left the White House. |
| 2021 | Ethics watchdogs raised concerns about Kushner's financial connections with the UAE, suggesting he might be 'particularly manipulable' by the country. |
| 2021 | Jared Kushner started his investment firm, Affinity Partners, seeking funds from Gulf countries' sovereign wealth funds. |
| 2021 | One month before Trump left office, Kushner's last overseas trip cost US taxpayers approximately $24,335 in hotel costs. |
| May 2021 | Jared Kushner traveled to Abu Dhabi, UAE with Secret Service protection, incurring US State Department costs of $12,950 for 50 'room nights' at the Ritz-Carlton hotel between May 5 and 14. |
| January 2021 | Concluded his role as Senior Advisor to the President and director of the Office of American Innovation at the end of the Trump Administration. |
| January 11 2021 | Arranged a meeting between vice-president Mike Pence and Donald Trump to try to reconcile their relationship. |
| January 6 2021 | During the United States Capitol attack, Kushner was returning from a diplomatic trip around the Persian gulf states. |
| January 5 2021 | Attended the GCC Summit in Saudi Arabia where parties signed an agreement ending the Qatar diplomatic crisis. |
| 2020 | Received the National Security Medal from the United States government |
| 2020 | His father Charles Kushner was pardoned by President Trump. |
| 2020 | Jared Kushner suggested pardoning Philip Esformes, a white-collar criminal who defrauded Medicare of approximately $1.3 billion, working in conjunction with the Aleph Institute. |
| December 10 2020 | Negotiated an agreement between Israel and Morocco to establish full diplomatic relations, with the United States agreeing to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara. |
| November 30 2020 | Traveled to Saudi Arabia with Avi Berkowitz to negotiate the Qatar diplomatic crisis, continuing negotiations in Qatar the next day. |
| October 23 2020 | Negotiated the agreement between Israel and Sudan to normalize diplomatic ties, marking the third Arab country to do so in two months. |
| September 15 2020 | Attended the official signing of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House with Israel, UAE, and Bahrain. |
| September 11 2020 | Completed negotiations and closed a deal between Israel and Bahrain during a call with Trump, Netanyahu, and the king of Bahrain. |
| September 4 2020 | Supported negotiations leading to Kosovo's announcement to normalize relations with Israel as part of a U.S.-brokered economic agreement with Serbia. |
| August 2020 | Reiterated his April claim that the administration's coronavirus response was a 'success story', at a time when 170,000 Americans had died from the pandemic. |
| August 13 2020 | Negotiated the first Abraham Accord, establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, with the first commercial flight arriving in Abu Dhabi with a U.S.-Israeli delegation led by Kushner. |
| May 2020 | Told coronavirus response team members that the pandemic was under control and there would not be a second wave, despite rising case numbers. |
| April 2020 | Continued use of WhatsApp for coronavirus team communications during the pandemic, which later prompted ethics watchdogs to review his communication records. |
| April 2020 | Made a rare public appearance in the White House briefing room defending the administration's coronavirus response, controversially stating that the federal stockpile is 'supposed to be our stockpile' and not for states to use. |
| March 2020 | Kushner began using WhatsApp to communicate with his coronavirus response team, raising cybersecurity concerns about sensitive government communications. |
| March 2020 | The Associated Press reported that Kushner sold stakes in a firm that had benefitted from Opportunity Zone tax breaks, which he had previously pushed for as a White House advisor. |
| March 13 2020 | Assisted in organizing a Rose Garden event where Trump falsely claimed Google was developing a coronavirus testing website, which was later clarified by Google to be limited to the Bay Area. |
| March 11 2020 | Helped write President Trump's Oval Office address on the coronavirus pandemic, which was widely criticized for inaccuracies and caused market panic. The address blamed Europeans and Chinese for the virus and contained misleading information about travel restrictions. |
| February 3 2020 | The heavily redacted transcript of Kushner's FBI interview was released after a security review by an intelligence agency. |
| January 2020 | UN investigators raised concerns about potential security risks after finding evidence that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in hacking Jeff Bezos's phone through WhatsApp, advising Kushner to take communication security measures. |
| January 28 2020 | Donald Trump unveiled Kushner's Middle East peace plan at a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attended by representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Oman. |
| October 2019 | Diagnosed with thyroid cancer and underwent treatment during the Trump Administration. |
| June 2019 | In an HBO/Axios interview, Kushner denied that President Trump was a racist and defended the administration's significant reduction of refugee admissions to the United States. |
| June 2019 | Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Community made a criminal referral of Kushner to federal prosecutors due to concerns about potential contradictions in his testimony. |
| February 28 2019 | CNN and The New York Times reported that Trump had previously ordered John Kelly to grant Kushner a top-secret clearance, which was reportedly unprecedented for a U.S. president. |
| 2018 | Registered as a Republican, completing his political party transition. |
| 2018 | Received the Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle from Mexico, a prestigious foreign honor recognizing his diplomatic contributions. |
| 2018 | Registered as a Republican voter. |
| December 2018 | Jared Kushner was instrumental in the passage of the FIRST STEP Act, a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill signed into law by President Trump that reduces sentences for non-violent offenders and improves prison rehabilitation programs. |
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