Jared Kushner was seen out and about in Surfside, Florida, with his children, in a rare sighting since his wife’s controversial January 6 testimony was public.
Jared, 41, was spotted boogie boarding and enjoying up the sun in the Miami neighborhood on Saturday with his eldest daughter Arabella, 11, son Joseph, 8, and youngest son Theodore, 6.
Jared smiled the entire day as he played with his children at the beach, dressed in a Patagonia hat, clear watch, grey t-shirt, pattern shorts, and dark clothing.
Following their testimony to the Capitol Hill committee, the property heir and his wife, Ivanka Trump, have kept a low profile.
In her testimony, Ivanka Trump stated that she did not trust her father, Donald Trump, when he claimed that the 2020 presidential election will be rigged. While Jared believes his father-in-law should not follow Rudy Giuliani’s advise and declare victory on election night,
This set them on a collision path with Donald Trump, who maintains that he was unfairly defeated by Joe Biden in the election.
On June 10, Ivanka and Jared were last seen running errands in Surfside, Florida, where they are renting a condo.
Surfside is located 13 miles north of downtown Miami. It is nicknamed: ‘Miami’s Uptown Beachtown.’
They have bought a $30 million estate nearby in Indian Creek Island, and are expected to move in in the fall when building work is complete.
Shortly, the couple will count Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tom Brady and his supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen, as their neighbors. They bought plot of land on Indian Creek Island and are in the process of building an environmentally sound home.
The area counts billionaires Carl Icahn and Eddie Lampert among its residents and has earned the name ‘Billionaire Bunker.’
In February 2022, a friend of Jared’s told People Magazine: ‘They’re just settling into normal life and really enjoying it. Jared will say, ‘The nice thing about Miami is the moment you stop working, you’re on vacation.”
The friend continued: ‘Jared’s spending a lot more time with his family because over the last four years that was something neither of them could do as much as they wanted to. Jared will say, ‘The nice thing about Miami is the moment you stop working, you’re on vacation.”
He also said that the couple travels to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s primary residence, every few weeks but are no long involved in advising the former president.
According to People, during one social occasion since moving to the town, they sat next to Pharrell Williams and have had dinner with Pitbull.
The town’s mayor, Charles Burkett, made reference to meeting the couple in Surfside in an interview with the Washingtonian in October 2021: ‘They were like anybody else and blended in with the crowd.’ Burkett is a supporter of Donald Trump.
Burkett added: ‘They’re not just here passing through. I believe they want to make this a big part of their life, this part of the state of Florida generally, specifically Surfside.’
Surfside town commissioner Eliana Salzhauer, a Democrat, was less welcoming who told the Washingtonian about her feelings when she found out the couple was coming to their town:
‘It was, ‘Oh, good, the town is getting recognition.’ Then it was, ‘Oh, no, the psychos are coming.’ The last thing Salzhauer wants is to become an enabler of the couple’s reinvention act in South Florida, which makes the whole situation rather frustrating. As she puts it, ‘What are they doing in our town?”
Jared has been spending his time working on his White House memoir, and developing his private equity firm.
The couple has not done any interviews since Trump’s presidency ended.
In the days before his beach day, the partner of Brian Sicknick, the United States Capitol Police Officer who was killed on January 6, 2021, Sandra Garza, made impassioned remarks for bother Jared and Ivanka.
Garza made the comments during an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN on Thursday.
She said: ‘There were so many people that could have intervened and said, ‘You know what? I’m going to go to the media. I’m going to go to the press. I’m going to scream from the rooftops and try and stop this.’
When asked who she felt could have done more, Garza said: ‘Ivanka, in particular.’
She continued: ‘I mean, families were decimated because of what happened on the 6th. People died because of what happened on the 6th.’
Garza addressed Ivanka and Jared directly saying: ‘Jared, Ivanka … yes, it’s hard to stand up to a family member, a father, a father-in-law. But you could have done something. You could have avoided the bloodshed that took place — including the suicides that took place after.’
According to accounts, Kushner turned to Ivanka on November 5, 2020, less than 24 hours after Trump publicly declared himself the actual winner, and told her, “We’re moving to Miami.”
According to the Miami Herald in 2021, 79 percent of Indian Creek Island’s 53 registered voters voted for Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Despite the fact that Biden won the town of Surfside by a razor-thin margin.
The accusation was made by New York Times reporter Peter Baker and New Yorker reporter Susan Glasser in their book The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.
‘No matter how vociferously Mr. Trump claimed otherwise, neither Mr. Kushner nor Ivanka Trump believed then or later that the election had been stolen,’ according to the book, which cites people close to them.
However, according to a Rolling Stone piece from June 2022, Jared was one of the most active behind-the-scenes in seeking to retain Trump in office after President Joe Biden’s victory.
The report says that Jared met with his father on multiple occasions on the issue. His plan was to launch ‘multi-pronged legal battles and a scorched-earth messaging war against the victorious Biden campaign.’
A former Trump advisor told the magazine: ‘Jared was directly involved.’ Another source said: ‘Jared helped create what then morphed into the Rudy clown show.’ The article references Jared as seeing himself like Jim Baker, George W. Bush’s primary lawyer during the 2000 Florida recount.
Ivanka said in her statement that she agreed with then-Attorney General William Barr’s assertion that the election was not stolen.
She said: ‘I respect Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he said – was saying.’
Donald Trump condemned his daughter’s remarks on his Truth Social platform saying that she only made them in order to be respectful towards William Barr.
The 45th president added: ‘The Democrats hit pay dirt with Barr, he was stupid, ridiculously said there was no problem with the Election, & they left him alone. It worked for him, but not for our Country!’
Jared was shown in his statement dismissing legal threats of resignation as ‘whining.’
Jared was also questioned on Rudy Giuliani’s claims of voter fraud in New York City. Listening to Giuliani was “Uh, basically, not the approach I would take if I was you,” he told the former president.
‘That’s definitely the length of the pause you take when someone asks you about a friend who was super drunk at a party, especially a friend you invited,’ comedian Seth Meyers said about Jared’s delay before answering the question.
When Jared questioned Giuliani, Trump responded: ‘You know, I have confidence in Rudy.’ Giuliani is said to have told Trump to declare victory on election night, something that other advisors said was a bad idea.
Trump and Ivanka, his first wife Ivana’s daughter, were known for their strong bond, and she was considered his favorite child.
She worked as an adviser in Trump’s White House, and he frequently stated that she could one day be president.