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The Washington power couple, who rented pricey real estate in D.C.'s Kalorama neighborhood near former President Barack Obama, weren't buying Trump and his allies' claims of election fraud.
'No matter how vociferously Mr. Trump claimed otherwise, neither Mr. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the election had been stolen,' according to the book, which cites people close to them.
The senior advisor didn't stop work entirely, although he did find time to pen a 40,000 word draft of a memoir during a two-week period after the election.
To assist in the effort he took an online class with novelist James Patterson, who co-wrote a thriller with former President Bill Clinton.
Marc Short, who was serving as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, tried to enlist Kushner in the effort to walk back Trump, who was demanding Pence not accept votes certified by states.
'Look, can you help us with this?' Short reportedly asked him.
'Look, when Rudy got involved, I stopped being involved,' he responded, saying Pence was a 'big boy.'
'I’m too busy working on Middle East peace right now, Marc,' he added.
That included final touches on what became known as the Abraham Accords, the effort to resume travel and commercial ties between Arab nations and Israel.
He also worked to smooth a conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into a Kushner business deal that emerged after he left the White House, when the real estate investor was able to obtain a $2 billion investment from a Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund.
Kushner's Affinity Partners secured the $2 billion investment six months after he left the White House.
According to the authors, Jared and Ivanka's decision to move 'opened a vacuum' that other figures, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and 'Kraken' lawyer Sidney Powell, exploited, with historic consequences.
It left those pushing the overturn effort without a 'counterweight.'
During those critical weeks, he also provided assurances to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who would denounce Trump after the riot.
'We’ll get through it, bear with us,' he told Josh Homes, a former aid key figure in McConnell's orbit.
'We’ve got a couple of challenges that have some merit, we’ll see how they go, but there’s a pretty good chance we come up short,' he predicted, predicting the effort would end after Dec. 24 when the Electoral College met.
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