Jared Kushner testified that Trump truly believed 2020 election was stolen: report

Jared Kushner testified last month that former President Donald Trump truly believed the 2020 election was stolen, according to a report.

Federal investigators asked the former senior advisor to Trump whether his presidential father-in-law had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had lost to President Biden, multiple sources told The New York Times.

Kushner, however, maintained that Trump had not been intentionally fabricating a stolen election narrative as a last-ditch attempt to maintain power.

He is just one of the few close to Trump to support the ex-president throughout the federal investigation led by special counsel Jack Smith.

The probe seeks to uncover the former president’s connections to baseless assertions of widespread voter fraud and attempts to block congressional certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory.

A spokesman for Kushner did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Multiple other witnesses have been asked whether aides told Trump he had lost the election and what he had been telling staff in the summer months leading up to Election Day, according to The Times.

According to Alyssa Farah Griffin, the White House communications director in the days after the 2020 election, Trump was well-aware that he had lost the 2020 election.

She told prosecutors last month and the House select committee on Jan. 6 last year that Trump asked her: “Can you believe I lost to Joe Biden?”

“In that moment I think he knew he lost,” Griffin told the House committee.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley also testified before the committee that Trump acknowledged he had failed his re-election bid during an early December 2020 meeting in the Oval Office.

“He says words to the effect of: Yeah, we lost, we need to let that issue go to the next guy,” Mr. Milley said, adding: “Meaning President Biden.”

“And the entire gist of the conversation was — and it lasted — that meeting lasted maybe an hour or something like that — very rational,” General Milley said. “He was calm. There wasn’t anything — the subject we were talking about was a very serious subject, but everything looked very normal to me. But I do remember him saying that.”

General Milley said, though, that in subsequent meetings Mr. Trump had increasingly discussed how the election was stolen from him.

“It wasn’t there in the first session, but then all of a sudden it starts appearing,” General Milley said.

If investigators can prove Trump spread voter fraud rumors with the intent of maintaining White House power, prosecutors could bring a slew of criminal charges against the former president.

Smith has already brought down a 37-count indictment against Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents found by the FBI at his Mar-a-Lago home last summer.

Trump is also facing charges in Manhattan over claims he used campaign cash to make hush-money payments worth thousands to keep porn star Stormy Daniels from going public with an alleged affair she had with the president.

Trump has denied allegations made against him across all three investigations.

He has maintained that widespread election fraud is to blame for his failed election attempt — and continues to underscore the falsehood as a main talking point in his 2024 campaign.

Trump has also denied an affair with Daniels, calling her claims an attempt to extort him, and has accused Democrats of pursuing the classified documents case in order to block him from running for office.