But his real power, his friends said, stems from his close relationship with Trump, who has long preferred the advice of family over political professionals and who sees in Kushner a younger version of himself.
In many ways, he has filled a vacuum in a startlingly small organization that has had no official manager since the June ouster of Corey Lewandowski, which Kushner advocated, and that has fallen far behind in building a 50-state campaign. Kushner's role was described in more than two dozen interviews with friends, colleagues and campaign staff members, some of whom spoke to the New York Times on the condition of anonymity so they could disclose interactions that were supposed to remain private. (On Monday, Trump said on Twitter that it was not a Star of David, but a sheriff's or a plain star.) Kushner believes that his father-in-law's respect for his Jewish faith is sincere, his friends said, and that the issue is not worth addressing. On Saturday, Trump created a firestorm after posting an image on Twitter featuring a picture of Clinton with six-pointed star and a pile of cash, which had previously appeared on a website known for anti-Semitism. Kushner's friends say he has expressed no concern to them about his father-in-law's behavior. Much about the Trump candidacy seems at odds with Kushner's personality and biography: An Orthodox Jew and grandson of Holocaust survivors, Kushner is now at the center of a campaign that has been embraced by white nationalists and anti-Semites. Kushner originally voiced objections to Trump about the appointment, but Kushner and Christie have since become wary allies in seeking to impose greater discipline on Trump's unconventional campaign. Chris Christie of New Jersey, whom Trump named as a top adviser. Now, in a Shakespearean turn, Kushner is working side by side with the former federal prosecutor who put his father, Charles Kushner, in prison just over 10 years ago: Gov. It is a new and unlikely role for Kushner, a conspicuously polite Harvard graduate whose prominent New Jersey family bankrolled Democrats for decades and whose father's reputation was destroyed, in a highly public and humiliating manner, by his involvement in electoral politics. PREVIOUS COVERAGE:Meet Hope Hicks, the woman who totally understands Donald Trump And now that Trump has secured the Republican nomination, Kushner is counseling his father-in-law on the selection of a running mate. Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, helped recruit a sorely needed director of communications, oversaw the creation of an online fundraising system and has had a hand in drafting Trump's few policy speeches. Yet in a gradual but unmistakable fashion, Kushner has become involved in virtually every facet of the Trump presidential operation, so much so that many inside and out of it increasingly see him as a de facto campaign manager.
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