The interview began with Kushner saying he was “as shocked as most people” by the FBI’s decision to follow a federal warrant and search Trump’s property, linking it to the “relentless attacks” against Trump during the during his presidential campaigns. Then, after another softball from guest Katie Pavlich about whether anyone “can really trust the process here,” Kushner seemed taken aback by Doocy’s simple, legitimate question: “Why did the former president have so many secrets things at Mar-a-Lago?’ “So I’m not familiar with exactly what the content was,” Kushner replied, distancing himself from his father-in-law before turning to his defense. Then, continuing to dodge Doocy’s question, he went off on an extended tangent about the “secret backchannel” he denies trying to set up with Russia during the transition period after the 2016 election, and acknowledged it’s not the first time he’s been accused his family of committing “treason”. “So I think you have to be very careful what you read and obviously just wait for the events to unfold,” he continued. “But there are so many things that have been hyped over the last few years that have turned out to be nothing.” From there, Kushner steered the conversation back to his book with the help of Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade, who was apparently only too happy to save him from having to answer Doocy’s original question. “That’s why I wrote this book, because I wanted people to really understand what it was like to live through that when you know you haven’t done anything wrong, you’re there and you’re trying to do good things,” Kushner said, turning around. as fast as he could, “and people are out there accusing you of all these crazy things and you have to prove that these things didn’t happen.” “Right, and you know they didn’t and they almost took you down,” Kilmead added, effectively finishing his guest’s sentence. “And knowing you’re innocent you gave all your time and all these interviews and you still had to wonder if the process was going to work.” With that, Kilmeade changed the subject entirely, giving Kushner a chance to hit on Anthony Fauci as he left public service. After suggesting Fauci was more interested in defending himself than “getting things done,” Kushner credited Trump for doing what he could to “save lives.”
