Former senior White House advisor Jared Kushner said he considered White House counsel Pat Cipollone’s repeated threats to resign in the weeks before the Capitol riot to “just be whining.”
The remarks from Kushner, the son-in-law of ex-President Donald Trump, were made during a taped interview with the select committee, a portion of which was played during the opening statement of Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
“The White House Counsel was so concerned about potentially lawless activity, he threatened to resign, multiple times. That is exceedingly rare and exceedingly serious. It requires immediate attention, especially when the entire team threatens to resign,” Cheney said.
“However, in the Trump White House, it was not exceedingly rare and it was not treated seriously,” she said.
In the clip, Kushner is asked: “Jared, are you aware of instances where Pat Cippilone threatened to resign?”
Kushner responded, “I kind of, like I said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done, and I know that he was always, him and the team, were always saying, ‘Oh, we are going to resign. We are not going to be here if this happens, if that happens.'”
“So, I kind of took it up to just be whining, to be honest with you,” Kushner said.
— Kevin Breuninger
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