Jared Kushner (41), the husband of Donald Trump's (76) daughter Ivanka (40), suffered from thyroid cancer while he was the ex-president's chief adviser. He reveals this in his forthcoming autobiography, Breaking History: A White House Memoir, according to consistent media reports. According to this, he received the diagnosis in 2019 from his father-in-law's personal physician during a trip on the presidential plane, Air Force One.
"It looks like you have cancer. We have to start an operation immediately," the doctor explained to him about the urgency at the time. Kushner then made a request: "Please don't tell anyone - especially not my wife and father-in-law."
He finally confided in Ivanka and only three colleagues and put the surgery on just before Thanksgiving. "That way, I wasted as little time in the office as possible. My absence might not even be noticed. That's what I wanted."
However, Donald Trump seemed to have caught wind of it anyway, although Kushner never directly revealed the diagnosis to him. The day before the surgery, Trump summoned his son-in-law to the Oval Office and said, "I'm the president. I know everything. I understand that you want to keep this matter secret. I prefer to keep this to myself."
After that, everything went well during the operation. The cancer was discovered very early, but "a considerable part of my thyroid gland" had to be removed, it is said.
Since Joe Biden (79) succeeded Donald Trump as US President, Kushner and his wife have lived in Miami. The memoir of the highly controversial political adviser is due to be released on August 9th.
