Jared Kushner Was My Boss

What I learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump’s ‘senior adviser’ and son-in-law

Aaron Gell
GEN
Published in
22 min readJun 18, 2019

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IfIf you want to understand Jared Kushner, I recommend starting with the dimples. When Jared smiles, his dimples do the work, cleaving his supple cheeks in an unconvincing approximation of contentment. The giveaway isn’t merely that his lips don’t seem to lift properly…

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Aaron Gell
GEN
Writer for

Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com