Jared Kushner’s Path to Political Power
That year, the collapse of the real estate bubble forced Kushner Companies to sell off parts of the building and give up significant equity in subsequent years in an attempt to pay off debts. Nearly ten years later, the Kushner family still owed a large sum on the property, with the full amount due in 2019. In 2018, the company was able to largely pay back this debt when a leasing deal was reached with an asset management group.
In 2009, Kushner married Ivanka Trump, and in 2015, he joined the presidential campaign of her father, business mogul Donald Trump, where he would oversee digital strategy and social media. He guided the creation of Project Alamo, the Trump campaign’s massive proprietary voter database, and worked with Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm that targets voters based on their behavioral profiles.
