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Jared Kushner wrote in his book that he was being treated for thyroid cancer at the White House.
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Peter Navarro said he never saw any signs of pain in Kushner and suggested he make up for it.
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Most thyroid cancers do not appear early in the disease. Navarro is no friend of Kushner either.
Peter Navarro, the former White House trade adviser, suggested that Jared Kushner faked the claim that he had cancer to help sell copies of his upcoming memoir.
Trump’s son-in-law wrote in his book “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” that he was diagnosed and treated for thyroid cancer while working as a senior White House adviser, The New York Times reported.
According to the book, Kushner was diagnosed in October 2019 and tried to hide the illness from Trump, though the then president eventually found out.
Navarro was asked in a Thursday night interview with Newsmax, shared by Mediaite, why Kushner would have hidden his diagnosis from Trump.
Navarro said in response, “That thyroid thing, that came out of nowhere. I saw that man every day. There’s no sign that he was in any pain or danger or anything. I think it’s just sympathy to try his book to sell now.”
Navarro has repeatedly criticized Kushner in the past, an example of one of many feuds between those in Trump’s orbit.
According to the Mayo Clinic and the UK’s National Health Service, thyroid cancers can cause swelling and pain in the neck, sore throat and difficulty swallowing, but often show no obvious signs or symptoms early on in the disease. Kushner said his cancer was detected early, The Times reported.
Navarro called Kushner a “one-man wrecking crew” whose “only qualification was that he was the boss’s son-in-law.”
Representatives from Trump and Broadside Books, the publisher of Kushner’s memoir, did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Navarro was critical of Kushner in his 2021 book, “In Trump Time: A Journal of America’s Plague Year,” in which he specifically emphasized “Project Airbridge,” a short-lived program designed by Kushner to bring personal protective equipment from Asian manufacturers to U.S. hospital suppliers to fly .
Navarro wrote that Kushner’s project undermined American PPE manufacturers, claiming that economic moves like Kushner’s “helped drive up the trade deficit even as it plunged this country further into its dependency ditch on foreign imports.”
Other revelations from Kushner’s memoir include allegations that John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, secretly listened to all the calls from the then president and Ivanka Trump, Kushner’s wife and Donald Trump’s daughter. once pushed. Kelly emphatically denied the claim of the pushing.
Earlier this week, the Justice Department indicted Navarro for transferring messages he sent and received while working at the White House, accusing him of “misserving” data that should have been turned over to the National Archives. after Trump left office.
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