Jared Kushner, former President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser, revealed in an upcoming memoir to be published next month on August 23rd, that he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer while he was serving in Trump’s administration. All this according to an excerpt about his illness provided to The New York Times from his “Breaking History: A White House Memoir”.
According to the excerpt, Kushner was notified of the diagnosis while traveling to Texas back in 2019: “On the morning that I traveled to Texas to attend the opening of a Louis Vuitton factory, White House physician Sean Conley pulled me into the medical cabin on Air Force One… ‘Your test results came back from Walter Reed,’ he said. ‘It looks like you have cancer. We need to schedule a surgery right away.’”
Mr. Kushner adds in his memoir that the cancer was caught early but that it required removing a “substantial part of my thyroid” and that he was warned that there was a possibility that there could be damage done to his voice.
According to Kushner’s camp, his cancer diagnosis had never been revealed prior to the publication of this book. In fact, he states in the memoir that “this was a personal problem and not for public consumption,” specifically pointing out that he had never informed the former president about it, nor anyone else at the White House other than his wife, two aides, and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
According to The Week, however, it seems that although Kushner kept the diagnosis under wraps, somehow Trump found out about it and stated prior to his surgery that his son-in-law would “be just fine”, telling him, “I’m the president. I know everything.”
