Jared Kushner Talks About Thyroid Surgery, 'Distrust' In FBI After Trump's Mar-A-Lago Search

Jared Kushner has commented on the FBI's search of his father-in-law, ex-President Donald Trump's, Mar-a-Lago home, saying it has increased the "distrust" some people have in the intelligence and security service.

Kushner, who confirmed he had a thyroid surgery last week, spoke about the FBI's search in an interview Wednesday with the National Desk.

In a recently released book titled, "Breaking History: A White House Memoir," Kushner wrote about how he underwent his first surgery for thyroid cancer in 2019 during the Trump tenure at the White House.

A source told Reuters he had a second thyroid surgery last week, and was expected to make a full recovery.

During the interview, Kushner told the National Desk his surgery last week was successful.

"That's why I am a little bit higher up than I normally would be," he said, gesturing to the jacket and shirt collar around his neck.

When asked about who was currently advising Trump, Kushner refrained from giving a name, and said he has "not been involved with the recent situation."

Kushner immediately drew the focus on his book, and said he wrote about how Trump would be "falsely accused" during his time as the president. He said his book also talks about the "allegations that would make massive headlines" about Trump, and later "would be gone and disproven" in weeks.

Kushner also believes the Mar-a-Lago property search, conducted as part of the Department of Justice's investigation into Trump's handling of White House documents, has increased the "distrust" some people have in the FBI.

"I believe that there's a tonne of amazing agents in the FBI and law enforcement ... but I do think it's pretty well established that the FBI did some pretty nefarious things ... to spy on President Trump's campaign," Kushner told the interviewer, Eugene Ramirez.

"It appears that there may be some political bias now," added the ex-senior White House adviser to Trump.

"Now they're basically fighting over paperwork that hopefully could have been resolved between lawyers," he went on to say. "And all that the raid has done is it's mobilized people, who already had distrust in the FBI based on the previous four years, to have more ... "

Kushner also suggested that the circumstances surrounding Trump were an example of the government using its "tools" to fight its targets.

"I write in the book too about criminal justice reform," Kushner said in the interview. " ... When the government wants to fight you, they have a lot of tools at their disposal."