Subject: NYT: Trump asks Jared Kushner to Plan for Transition Team
From: "Kauffman, Nathan" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 14:57:28 -0700

Trump Asks His Son-in-Law, Jared Kushner, to Plan for a Transition Team<http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/06/trump-asks-his-son-in-law-jared-kushner-to-plan-for-a-transition-team/http:/www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/06/trump-asks-his-son-in-law-jared-kushner-to-plan-for-a-transition-team/>

Donald J. Trump has asked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to begin quietly working to put together a blueprint for his transition team should he win the White House in November.

Mr. Kushner, the husband of Mr. Trump's daughter, Ivanka, will work with Corey Lewandowski, the Trump campaign manager, and Paul Manafort, a senior adviser, to set up a prospective transition team and determine who its most important members should be. But Mr. Kushner is not expected to be involved if and when such a transition occurs, according to two people briefed on his new assignment.

"The campaign will likely be announcing transition team leadership in the coming weeks," said Hope Hicks, a Trump spokeswoman.

Mr. Kushner, 35, is the publisher of The New York Observer and heads his family's real estate development company, Kushner Properties.

He and Mr. Trump have a close relationship and are often in contact, talking informally about the campaign. And Mr. Kushner, aided by The Observer's editor, Ken Kurson, wrote a closely watched speech Mr. Trump delivered to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March.

On Tuesday, after Mr. Trump won the Indiana primary and emerged as his party's presumptive nominee, he praised Mr. Kushner, who was standing beside him.

"Honestly, Jared is a very successful real estate person but I actually think he likes politics more than he likes real estate," Mr. Trump said, as his daughter broke out laughing. "But he's very good at politics."

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Nathan Kauffman
DNC Research Associate
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