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Jared Kushner Reveals New Details About Kim Kardashian's Work with the Trump Administration

Jared Kushner Reveals New Details About Kim Kardashian's Work with the Trump Administration

Jared Kushner is shedding light on Kim Kardashian‘s work with the Trump administration.

In an excerpt from Jared‘s upcoming memoir Breaking History: A White House Memoir published by People , the former president’s son-in-law revealed the role the 41-year-old reality star played in getting Alice Johnson‘s prison sentence commuted.

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Jared writes that Kim first reached out to Ivanka Trump about the case in late 2017, adding that he immediately noticed that Alice, who was 63 at the time, was serving her 21st year of a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense.

“She’d become an ordained minister, completed multiple vocational certifications, mentored fellow inmates, and maintained a spotless behavioral record,” he says. “With the president increasingly supportive of criminal justice reform, I decided it was the perfect moment to bring him Alice Johnson‘s clemency case. In an Oval Office meeting in May, after working closely with Kim Kardashian to vet the file, I presented Alice‘s case to the president.”

When explaining her “unfair” sentence to President Donald Trump, Jared allegedly faced resistance by White House counsel Don McGahn. He claims that McGahn called Alice the “kingpin” of a drug operation and concluded that she had received an appropriate sentence.

The president was still open to the idea, which led Jared to arrange a meeting between him and Kim. “She gracefully presented Alice‘s case to the president,” he recalled of their meeting. “She knew the details backward and forward.”

Jared also claimed that Don McGahn was “starstruck” by the reality star, so he went easy on her during his counterarguments. “Two days later, [Trump] called me early in the morning and said, ‘Let’s do the pardon. Let’s hope Alice doesn’t go out and kill anyone!’”

According to Jared, it was at that point that McGahn began allegedly leaking “falsehoods” to the media, implying that Trump had decided to help Alice because he was influenced by Kim‘s celebrity status. After some reassurance, Trump proceeded with the clemency anyway.

“Her emotion was raw, her joy contagious, her long suffering and love emanated from her smile,” he writes. “The president called me afterward. ‘Jared, that is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. I’ve been around for a long time, and that was beautiful.’”

In a separate excerpt from his memoir, Jared revealed that he privately battled cancer during his time at the White House.

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