White House adviser Jared Kushner
Jared Corey KushnerSunday shows preview: Mail-in votes, USPS funding dominates political debate before conventions Newsweek apologizes for Kamala Harris op-ed Jared Kushner denies Trump ‘promotion’ questions about Kamala Harris MORE said Sunday that he has no worries about his young children returning to school during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Asked by CBS’s Margaret Brennan about “Face the Nation” whether he sent his own children back to character classes, Kushner, who President Trump
Donald John TrumpPresident Trump’s brother, Robert Trump, dies at 71 Trump to attend GOP convention every day: reports Trump breaks with CDC director over potential for ‘worst case’ amid pandemic, flu season MOREhis son-in-law, replied, “Absolutely.”
Asked if he was worried about their potential exposure to the virus, Kushner said: “No, because children are six times more likely to die from the flu than from the coronavirus, so based on that.” the data I have seen, I do not believe this is a risk. ”
“This virus affects different people at different rates,” he added. ‘Our school does not open five days a week. I wish they would, but we’re absolutely sending our kids back to school, and I’m not afraid of that. “
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Kushner also defended the Trump administration’s “aggressive” response to the pandemic, even as daily deaths reached 1,500, compared to the May mortality rate. “The most important thing is that the president has really advanced the use of a lot of therapies, which brings the death toll from the case better,” he added.
Brennan also pressed Kushner on the question of whether he was worried that the president’s frequent condemnation of mail-in-vote would depress the mood among many of the people most vulnerable to the virus that were part of the victory margin of the Trump campaign in 2016.
“I think what President Trump wants is a fair election. “You can not try a new system where there is not the right time to do it and then expect them to get it right and expect Americans to have confidence in the election,” Kushner said. He added that the campaign was not concerned about influencing the turnout for the president, saying: ‘We have a great operation. We are very confident. We are now in much better shape than we were in 2016. ”
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