Political background
Jared Kushner had been a lifelong Democrat prior to Donald Trump entering politics.[43] He had donated over $10,000 to Democratic campaigns[44] starting at young age of 11. In 2008 he donated to the campaign for Hillary Clinton and his newspaper the New York Observer endorsed Barack Obama over John McCain in the US presidential election.[45] but after disappointment with Barack Obama he endorsed Republican US presidential race nominee Mitt Romney in 2012 via the New York Observer.[46] In 2014 he continued to donate to Democratic groups,[45] but he then continued his "ideological conversion" by joining his father-in-law Donald Trump's nascent US presidential campaign in 2015.[51] Kushner had no prior involvement in campaign politics or in government before Trump's campaign.[52]