Trump defends choice of Kushner for France envoy
The Peninsula
Paris: US president elect Donald Trump defended his choice of Charles Kushner for US ambassador to France, describing him as a family member and a...
Paris: US president-elect Donald Trump defended his choice of Charles Kushner for US ambassador to France, describing him as a "family member" and a "very successful man" in an interview released Wednesday.
"It's a great thing because he's in our family," Trump told the French magazine Paris Match in the interview conducted Saturday.
"Essentially a family member of mine is coming to France, I am not sure it's happening anywhere else. We have a lot of ambassadorships."
Trump nominated Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as the US envoy to France in November.
The choice is in keeping with Trump's pattern of selecting people, often wealthy, who are close to his family or have proven their loyalty.