Trump is ‘obviously thinking’ about running for President again in 2024 Jared Kushner says

Donald Trump is ‘obviously thinking about’ running for president again in 2024, his son-in-law and former aide said today. 

Jared Kushner said Trump is considering a potential presidential bid because he ‘hates seeing what’s happening in the country’.

Kushner, in an interview with Sky News, said that his father-in-law had asked him about running for president again.

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and served as the former president’s advisor, said that he would ‘rather not go into’ what the former president had asked him, but added: ‘Basically, I know that he’s obviously thinking about it. He hates seeing what’s happening in the country.’

He brazenly claimed, without providing evidence, that if Trump was president now instead of Joe Biden, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ‘never would have happened’.

Kushner brazenly claimed, without providing evidence, that if Trump was president now instead of Joe Biden, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ‘never would have happened’. Pictured: Kushner and Trump at the White House in September 2020

When asked when Trump might make a decision on running for president again, Kushner said: ‘Nobody can speak for him.’ 

Asked again if Trump was not ruling out a presidential bid for 2024, Kushner added: ‘With Trump it’s hard to rule anything out, he’s a very flexible thing.’

Kushner also dismissed the importance of the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence which found more than 100 classified documents in the Florida home, as ‘an issue of paperwork’. 

He said: ‘I think it’s something that again, this seems like it’s an issue of paperwork that should have been able to be worked out between the DOJ [Department of Justice] and Trump.

‘I don’t know what he took or what he didn’t take but I think right now we’re relying on leaks to the media.’

Donald Trump is ‘obviously thinking about’ running for president again in 2024, his son-in-law and former aide said today

Trump, with First Lady Melania Trump, Senior Advisors to the President Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, speaks at a Hanukkah reception at the White House on December 11, 2019, in Washington, DC

The Department of Justice (DOJ) released an image on Tuesday evening of documents marked as ‘secret’, ‘top secret’ and ‘SCI’, which were spread across the floor next to a box.

The department claims the documents were among those seized during the FBI search of Trump’s residence in relation to a case alleging he took materials from the White House when leaving office.

Kushner’s comments were aired after Trump launched a seething attack on President Biden where he branded him ‘insane’ and asked if he was ‘suffering from late stage dementia’ after the president claimed he was a ‘threat to democracy’.

The Justice Department released a blistering legal filing Tuesday night that included a photo of documents seized during the August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. Seen at right is a framed Time magazine cover. After first suggesting information was planted, Trump and his allies said the image was arranged to make him look like a slob

The furious former president took to his Truth Social account to slam the ‘awkward and angry’ speech in Pennsylvania – and called on someone to explain to his successor what MAGA meant, ‘slowly but passionately’.

The late night rant also saw him accuse the 79-year-old of ‘threatening America, including with the possible use of military force’ as he fought back at the brutal address to the nation.

Hours earlier Biden had taken to the stage at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where he launched an incensed attack on Trump and accused him of ‘destroying American democracy’.

Standing on the darkened stage with ominous red lighting, the president called Trump out by name and slammed him for promoting the claim the 2020 election was stolen.

Biden also branded him – and MAGA Republicans who follow him – as ‘extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic’.

Biden said: ‘Equality and democracy are under assault. We do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise,’ Biden declared at the top of his remarks before Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.

Biden declared Donald Trump is a ‘threat to the country’ in a speech that contained his harshest rhetoric to date about his predecessor in the Oval Office and the MAGA movement

‘Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,’ President Joe Biden said during his speech 

He called out Trump by name, slamming the former president for his false claim the 2020 election was stolen and berating those who support Trump.

‘Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,’ Biden said to great applause from his supporters.

He made it clear he doesn’t think every Republican is ‘extreme’ or a threat but said ‘there’s no question that the Republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.’

‘And that is a threat to this country,’ he said. ‘Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal.’

Biden accused Trump and his supporters of trying to thwart free elections, disrespecting the constitution and taking the country backwards in terms of personal rights.

Jill Biden joined President Biden on stage after his remarks

‘MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They did not believe in the rule of law. They did not recognize the will of the people,’ he said. ‘They refused to accept the results of a free election.’

‘You can’t love your country only when you win,’ Biden said. It was a marked change in tone for Biden, who, previously, rarely mentioned Trump by name, usually calling him ‘the former guy.’

Meanwhile, Kushner’s comments about Trump thinking about running for president again comes just weeks after the former president dropped a strong hint that he would do so.

The former president told fellow Republicans last month ‘the time is coming’ for him to make a formal announcement about his next bid for the White House.

Trump said he believes ‘people are going to be very happy’ with his decision while noting that America has ‘lost everything’ under Biden’s leadership.