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Last week, The New York Times<\/em><\/a> reported<\/a> that Jared Kushner<\/strong> had testified before a federal grand jury investigating Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, and that when he did, the former first son-in-law apparently suggested that \u201cMr. Trump truly believed the election was stolen.\u201d Such a claim is significant because federal prosecutors, led by special counsel Jack Smith,<\/strong> appear to be trying to determine if Trump knew his attempts to stay in power were based on a lie\u2014and while the feds do not need, like, a video of Trump saying, \u201cLook at me, breaking the law\u201d to indict him, their case would be made significantly stronger if, as the Times<\/em> notes, \u201cthey can produce evidence that the defendant knows there is no legal or factual basis for a claim but goes ahead with making it anyway.\u201d In other words, in testifying that it was his understanding that Trump truly thought the 2020 election was stolen from him, Kushner did a major solid for his father-in-law, and any potential defense said father-in-law\u2019s attorneys might mount. But at least one person has suggested Kushner\u2018s testimony may not have been entirely aboveboard.<\/p>\n In an interview with ABC on Sunday, former Trump ally turned 2024 GOP rival Chris Christie<\/strong> told George Stephanopoulos<\/strong>, \u201c[Trump] doesn\u2019t believe he won. He was concerned before the election that he was losing, and I know that because he said it to me directly. So, you know, he knows he didn\u2019t win. But his ego, George, won\u2019t permit him to believe that he\u2019s the only person in America, outside the state of Delaware, to ever have lost to Joe Biden.<\/strong> And so his ego is running that. And am I surprised that Jared Kushner would say that? He doesn\u2019t want to be disinvited to Thanksgiving, George, so he said what he needed to say.\u201d<\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Christie and Kushner, of course, have a long history together<\/a> that started in the early 2000s, when the former\u2014at the time a federal prosecutor\u2014convinced a jury to send the latter\u2019s father to prison for illegal campaign contributions,\u00a0tax evasion, and\u00a0witness tampering. (The witness tampering charge was a result of Charles Kushner<\/strong>\u2019s decision to retaliate against his sister\u2019s husband for cooperating with the feds, by hiring a sex worker to seduce him, filming the encounter, and then sending the tape to his sister.) Jared apparently never forgave Christie for this and in April 2016, according to Christie\u2019s memoir<\/a>, Kushner \u201cplead[ed] with his father-in-law not to make Christie transition chairman,\u201d and implied that Christie, in prosecuting his father, had \u201cacted unethically and inappropriately\u201d without offering evidence to back up such claims. According to Christie, Kushner incredibly attempted to argue that when it came to the sex tape and the blackmailing, such things were \u201cfamily matter[s], matter[s] to be handled by the family or by the rabbis.\u201d (Trump would later pardon<\/a> Charles Kushner in one of his last acts as president.)<\/p>\n Anyway, as it happens, there are a number of people who, unlike Jared, have said Trump 100% knew he\u2019d lost the election. Former White House communications director\u00a0Alyssa Farah Griffin,<\/strong>\u00a0for one, reportedly<\/a> told prosecutors this spring that Trump, in the days following the 2020 election, asked her, \u201cCan you believe I lost to Joe Biden?\u201d While\u00a0recounting<\/a>\u00a0the same story to the January 6 committee, she opined: \u201cIn that moment I think he knew he lost.\u201d And in his own testimony before the same panel, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General\u00a0Mark A. Milley,<\/strong>\u00a0said that during a meeting in the Oval Office in late November or early December 2020, Trump accepted that he had lost the election. \u201cHe says words to the effect of: Yeah, we lost, we need to let that issue go to the next guy,\u201d Milley said, adding: \u201cMeaning President Biden.\u201d As Milley\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the House panel: \u201cThe entire gist of the conversation was\u2014and it lasted\u2014that meeting lasted maybe an hour or something like that\u2014very rational. He was calm. There wasn\u2019t anything\u2014the subject we were talking about was a very serious subject, but everything looked very normal to me. But I do remember him saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n If you would like to receive the Levin Report in your inbox daily, click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a> to subscribe.<\/em><\/p>\n In other Chris Christie news\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n This content can also be viewed on the site it originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTwitter content<\/h4>\n
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