Jared Kushner

So to give the listeners some context, and people remember this now, it's been kind of swept away because it turned out not to be true, was that after President Trump won the election in 2016, instead of the media saying, we were wrong, because again, everyone thought he had zero chance of winning, they said, okay, well, we couldn't have been wrong.

It must have been the Russians who worked with him.

And so...

At first, when this started coming up, I thought this was ridiculous.

I mean, I was very intimately involved with the operations of the campaign.

I was running the finance of the campaign.

I was running the digital media of the campaign.

I was running the schedule for the campaign.

And I knew that on most days we had trouble, like, you know, working, coordinating with ourselves, you know, let alone, you know, collaborating with another government and colluding as they called it.

And so...

We did a great job, I think, as an underdog campaign, very leanly staffed.

And then they said that we were working with the Russians.

And so at the time, I didn't take it too seriously because I knew there was no truth to it.

But it was amazing to me to start seeing all of these institutions, whether it was CNN, The Washington Post, New York Times.

These were news organizations that I grew up having a lot of respect for.

taking these accusations so seriously and then working themselves up in order to just cover it for two years.

Then as a result, you had a special counsel, you had a House investigation, a Senate investigation.

And I personally spent about, I think, over 20 hours just testifying before these different committees.

Again, spent millions of dollars out of my own pocket on my legal fees to make sure I was well-represented.

And the reason I did that was because I saw in Washington, it was like a sick game, right?