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Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner privately battled thyroid cancer while serving as a White House adviser during the Trump administration, Fox News confirmed.
Fox News reported that Kushner, who is now 41, and served as a senior advisor to Trump, learned he likely had thyroid cancer in October 2019 during high-level trade talks with China, but was private about his diagnosis. The New York Times reported that Kushner writes that he was informed of his cancer diagnosis while aboard Air Force One.
“As this high-wire act of trade talks with the Chinese progressed, I had to confront an unexpected and frightening personal problem,” Kushner writes in his new book, “Breaking History: A White House Memoir.” His White House memoirs are expected to be released in August.
“On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House physician Sean Conley pulled me into the medical cabin on Air Force One,” Kushner writes in his memoir, as was reported by the New York Times. “Your test results came back from Walter Reed,’ he said. ‘It looks like you have cancer. We need to schedule a surgery right away.’”
In his tell-all book of his four years spent advising President Trump on a variety of domestic and foreign matters, Kushner writes that he preferred to keep his diagnosis a secret from all but a few close intimates. Among them were, according to the Fox News report, his wife Ivanka, his friend and fellow crafter of the Abraham Accords, Avi Berkowitz, his aide Cassidy Luna and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
Kushner writes that, “With the exception of Ivanka, Avi, Cassidy, and Mulvaney, I didn’t tell anyone at the White House — including the president, “ as was reported by Fox News.
He did not make clear why he did not inform the president, but Fox News reported that prior to a surgery that had been scheduled, former President Trump ultimately discovered the distressing news about Kushner’s condition.
“The day before the surgery, Trump called me into the Oval Office and motioned for his team to close the door. ‘Are you nervous about the surgery?’ he asked,” Kushner writes, noting that he asked then-President Trump “how” he knew, as was reported by Fox News.
“‘I’m the president,’” Trump said, according to Kushner. Fox News reported that Kushner wrote of his conversation with the president. The president said to him, “I know everything. I understand that you want to keep these things quiet. I like to keep things like this to myself as well. You’ll be just fine. Don’t worry about anything with work. We have everything covered here.”
The operation was indeed successful and a “substantial” part of his thyroid was removed by physicians during the scheduled operation.
“The biopsy results arrived a few days later, revealing that the nodule indeed was cancerous. Thank God we caught it early,” Kushner writes, according to the Fox News report.
Last year, the first media outlet who reported on Kushner’s upcoming memoir was Fox News.
A source close to the Kushners told Fox News that since leaving the Trump White House in January 2021, Jared and his wife Ivanka have been focusing on spending time with their children and their respective families as they begin a new life in south Florida.
Kushner is known for his work on the Abraham Accords.
