Jared Kushner’s Path to Political Power
After Trump’s election, at which point many media outlets speculated that he had played a major role in helping the president-elect achieve victory, he was named a senior advisor to the president; at that point, he stepped down from his role as publisher of the Observer.
By March, he had also been charged with running the newly created Office of American Innovation, meant to oversee a wide array of pressing and complex government issues using business strategies from the private sector, including the Middle East, federal information technology infrastructure, the opioid crisis, criminal justice reform, the Veterans Affairs department, and Chinese diplomacy.
