Liz Cheney launches blistering attack on Jared Kushner in new book

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) writes in her new book that her impression of "wunderkind" Jared Kushner was that his self-aggrandizing arrogance didn't match reality.

After Donald Trump left the White House and Cheney and other lawmakers began the House Select Committee investigating the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, Kushner was among those called to testify.

In her new book, "Oath and Honor," Cheney begins with former Attorney General Bill Barr's testimony to the committee.

"Meadows had caught up with me and… said, 'Look, I think that [Trump is] becoming more realistic and knows there’s a limit to how far he can take this.' And then Jared said, you know, 'Yeah, we’re working on this — we’re working on it,'" Barr recalled to the committee.

Barr was concerned, she said, and Kushner's comments suggested he was pressing Trump in the right direction.

"Other testimony indicated that Kushner was also assisting Trump’s very successful efforts to spread to the public what virtually everyone in the White House knew to be election lies," Cheney writes.

"When we asked Jared if he had played any role in organizing Trump’s advertising campaign to disseminate the election lies, he said, 'Yeah, I was a creative director — so that’s a fair assumption.' I wanted to know why Jared had not done more to stop January 6."

She recalled Kushner using a quote that he'd recited many times before.

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Jared said, “I forget the journalist, but she said that the media took Trump literally but not seriously, and the voters took him seriously but not literally.”

Cheney said she got the impression that, "Jared thought this was clever. But the problem with Jared’s quote is this: Tens of millions of American voters actually took Trump’s election-fraud allegations literally. They did not see the allegations as some kind of clever parody. And hundreds of Trump supporters have now pled to or been convicted of criminal acts, sacrificing their freedom to achieve what they believed Donald Trump asked them to do. People died and scores of police officers were seriously injured."

But one thing struck Cheney with Kushner's comments — he was implying Trump knew exactly what he was doing.

"Jared’s 'clever' quote implies that Trump was knowingly playing a cynical game the entire time, intentionally misrepresenting the facts for his own purposes," writes Cheney. "Of course, there is already substantial additional evidence that Trump was acting intentionally, making false statements to motivate his supporters and, of course, to raise money from them."

You can read more coverage from Cheney's book at Raw Story here.