According to one person close to Don Jr., his advisers were alarmed by Don Jr.’s now-deleted tweet questioning Kamala Harris’s race and worried Kushner would use it to damage him. “Don doesn’t want to give Jared any excuses to delegitimize him”
and the DNC were at this point in Obama’s reelection bid. The massive fund-raising haul, a former West Wing official told me, “showed money isn’t going to be a problem.”Donald Trump Jr.Brad Parscale
is the nominal campaign manager—but Jared and Don Jr., who both have good relationships with Parscale, are jockeying to be the ultimate decision makers. “Jared wants to take control of the campaign,” a person close to Don Jr. told me. “It’s about power,” the former West Wing official said. One place the fight is playing out is over fund-raising. According to sources, Kushner has been seeking to marginalize Don Jr.’s close friendwho serves as co-chairman of the RNC.
The tensions between Don Jr. and Kushner amplified beneath the glare of the Mueller investigation. “Don Jr. and Jared really dislike each other,” a Republican close to the White House told me. According to the source, Don Jr. has told people he suspected Kushner was behind the initial leak of Don Jr.’s infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians to get dirt on“Don was telling people Jared leaked it to hurt him. No one could figure out how it leaked. It was a closely guarded secret.
Paranoia about Kushner has set in among Don Jr.’s allies. According to one person close to Don Jr., his advisers were alarmed by Don Jr.’s now-deleted tweet questioning Senator’s race. They worried Kushner would push the scandal to damage Don Jr. “We need to clean this up,” one adviser emailed another shortly after Don Jr. sent the tweet, according to the person, who was briefed on the exchange. “Don doesn’t want to give Jared any excuses to delegitimize him,” the person told me.
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