Jared Kushner Played Golf With Trump Amid Rumors He Was FBI Mole

Jared Kushner played golf with former President Donald Trump amid speculation that he may have alerted the FBI about confidential documents being stored at Mar-a-Lago.

FBI agents raided Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, residence on August 8 to search for documents Trump allegedly took from the White House. In total, they seized about 20 boxes of classified documents.

Following the search, some commentators have speculated that Trump's children or Kushner, the husband of his daughter Ivanka Trump, may have tipped off the FBI. Despite these rumors, Kushner said during a Fox News appearance on Sunday that he and Ivanka Trump recently played golf with the former president following the search.

"Ivanka and I were playing golf with him a couple of days ago, and I was joking with him about how in the way that he drives his enemies so crazy—they always overpursue him and make mistakes in trying to get him," Kushner said.

Kushner went on to condemn the FBI's search, comparing it to several other investigations, including allegations that Russia bolstered Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and that the former president, in 2018, improperly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce an investigation into then former-Vice President Joe Biden. Trump and his allies decried these investigations as "witch hunts."

"His fiercest critics really accuse him of breaking norms, but what we're seeing here, and what we've seen constantly over time, is that they do that exact thing. They break all the norms in order to try to get Trump," he said.

Michael Cohen, the ex-president's former personal attorney, told Insider earlier in August that he "would not be surprised to find out" Kushner or one of Trump's children was the FBI informant.

Mary Trump, Donald Trump's niece, also pointed to Kushner as the likely informant during an interview with The Dean Obeidallah Show.

"I think we need to look very hard at why Jared got $2 billion. We need to look very hard at why he has been so quiet for so many months now. And we need to think about who, if it, who could also be implicated in this that would need as big a play as turning Donald in, in order to get out of trouble, or at least to mitigate the trouble they're in," she said.

Kushner's defense echoes that of other Trump allies, who have accused the FBI and Justice Department of launching the search for political reasons. Still, his criticism remained more measured than that of some conservatives, who have pushed to defund the FBI in light of the raid.

His comments came as Trump appeared to suffer another loss as Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said redactions on the affidavit, the document that showed probable cause for the search that Trump's attorneys have called for the DOJ to release, may prevent its release because it would be a "meaningless disclosure."

Newsweek reached out to Trump's office for comment.