Jared Kushner, 45, Drops Stunning Admission About His Education

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is furiously trying to push back on coverage of him, but in doing so, he made one glaring admission about his time at Harvard.

Kushner, 45, put up a lengthy post on Thursday taking aim at a profile of him in The New Yorker that was published last month titled “Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy.” The president’s son has been under the microscope for his work around the world for the Trump administration despite having no official government role and still conducting personal business.

In his latest attempt to “put the facts out there,” as he put it, Kushner shared a lengthy post disputing fourteen claims in the article.

But among them, Kushner went so far as to push back on the idea that a donation from his father, Charles Kushner, played a role in his acceptance to Harvard nearly 30 years ago, but his answer literally admitted as much.

“Kushner was admitted to Harvard, after his father pledged to donate $2.5 million—with donations beginning once his son started classes.

While in college, Jared began investing in apartment buildings, many of them in Somerville, a short walk from campus,” the article read, and Kushner highlighted in his response.

“This allegation has been repeated for nearly two decades, but that doesn’t make it true,” Kushner wrote.

But just several lines later he added: “His philanthropy may have played a role in my admission.” Turns out, Kushner isn’t disputing the line in the article at all, suggesting his family’s giving millions to Harvard may have had an impact, but he still took issue with any suggestion that he wasn’t a top high school student or lacked merit.

While Kushner did not flag the lines specifically, he was clearly triggered when The New Yorker called him a “middling student” while he attended Frisch School, with a family acquaintance saying, “He’s a parody of someone to whom everything has been given.” “The claim that I was a mediocre student is contradicted by the contemporaneous record: I was a top student, captain of the basketball team, assistant captain of the hockey team, an award-winning debater, and finished the New York City Marathon while still in high school,” Kushner wrote.

According to Kushner, the distortion of his record “started with a quote attributed to an administrator at my high school who later said her words had been distorted.

Both she and her principal explicitly disputed the allegation in the attached letters.” As evidence, Kushner shared two letters from 2006, which did not provide proof that he was an exemplary student, but focused on a quote about him as a student that they wrote afterward had been distorted.

One letter was from his former high school administrator, Margot Krebs.