Jared Kushner builds a business empire off his father-in-law’s back
The president’s son-in-law is leveraging relationships from his time in the first Trump White House for his private equity firm.
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Group has tapped contacts made in the Balkans and Middle East from his time as a senior adviser in the first Trump White House. AP
Jared Kushner was yachting in the Mediterranean with his family in the summer of 2021, a few months after the end of his father-in-law Donald Trump’s tumultuous first term. As they anchored off the Albanian coast, he asked a friend to help broker a meeting on his boat with the country’s prime minister Edi Rama.
Over dinner, the affable Rama bonded with Kushner and discussed how Albania’s stunning Adriatic coast is often ignored by wealthy tourists criss-crossing between Italy and the Greek islands.
