Related: Jared Kushner alleges this White House staffer “shoved” IvankaTrump then went on to warn Jared that if he were not serious, Trump had another suitor in mind.“You know, Tom Brady is a good friend of mine and had been trying to take Ivanka out…” Trump began.“Before he got any further, [Kushner] quipped, ‘If I were Ivanka, I’d go with Tom Brady.’ [Trump] looked at [Kushner] with complete seriousness. ‘Yeah, I know,’ he sighed,” Kushner writes.Later, when he decided to propose, Jared again approached Trump in his office.
He told him he had a “surprise engagement” planned for his daughter.“Later I learned that right after I left Trump picked up the intercom and alerted Ivanka that she should expect an imminent proposal,” Kushner wrote.The couple wed at Trump’s Bedminster golf club in 2009.During his time in the White House, Trump appointed Jared and Ivanka to be among his Senior Advisers.
The couple have kept a fairly low profile since Trump left the White House, although Jared has been hitting the media circuit hard in recent days to promote his memoir.Trump’s inability to keep a secret has been noted many times before.
This week, politics consultant Tim Miller was asked on a podcast whether he thought Donald Trump potentially had material to blackmail Lindsey Graham that might explain the South Carolina Senator’s switch from being rabidly anti-Trump to becoming one of his vocal supporters.Miller replied, “No, I don’t think so.