Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kusher, who is Jewish, defended the GOP presidential candidate from charges of anti-Semitism on Tuesday prompted by a controversial tweet.
“My father-in-law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism since I began dating my wife,” Kusher said in a statement to ABC News.
{mosads}”I know that Donald does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-semitic thinking. I have personally seen him embrace people of all racial and religious backgrounds. The suggestion that he may be intolerant is not reflective of the Donald Trump I know,” Kushner added.
Kushner, who married Trump’s daughter Ivanka in 2009 and has reportedly become a top adviser to the presidential candidate, issued the statement in response to an open letter from an entertainment writer at the New York Observer, which Kushner owns.
Under the headline “An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees,” writer Dana Schwartz urged Kushner to rebuke Trump’s controversial anti-Hillary Clinton tweet that sparked a firestorm over the weekend.
Trump shared a tweet on Saturday that included an image of Clinton over a bed of $100 bills and the phrase “the most corrupt candidate ever!” inside a six-pointed star.
He later deleted the tweet, sharing another version that replaced with six-pointed star resembling the Star of David with a circle. His campaign insisted the first shape was a “basic star” or “sheriff’s badge.”
Still, Trump continued to face criticism over the graphic on Tuesday, including criticism from Democrats and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who called on his campaign to “clean up” its social media efforts.
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