Jared Kushner reportedly advising Trump to both concede and stay on as media scrambles for hint at president’s next move
The curious case of Kushner's concessions
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Your support makes all the difference.Jared Kushner has become the centre of the "will he or won't he" game trying to figure out if Donald Trump will concede or challenge the election results.
Quoting multiple anonymous sources, competing media narratives have been saying that Mr Kushner has been privately compelling the president to concede while also compelling him to fight on in the courts.
The most recent source close to Mr Kushner told Axios that he has advised Mr Trump to pursue "legal remedies" to the election, with a second source close to the president's son-in-law asserting he had not advised Trump to concede.
The outlet reported that there were "awkward conversations" happening around Mr Trump, but that the president is still insisting he won with several advisers pushing for the legal fight.
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The New York Times also reported that Mr Kushner was among the minority of the president's advisers who "doubted that Mr Biden was likely to win" and was leading the team to contest vote counts.
It comes after CNN reported earlier that two anonymous sources said Mr Kushner approached the president about conceding, with a third source saying that Melania Trump privately advised her husband the time had come to accept the election loss.
Publicly, the Trump campaign has maintained that they're going to continue the legal challenge and file more lawsuits on Monday.
Campaign adviser Jason Miller denied CNN's reporting on Sunday and said he was directing Mr Trump towards legal action.
"This story is not true," Mr Miller said in a tweet. "Given undetermined electoral outcomes in multiple states and serious voting irregularities and lack of transparency in others, Jared has advised @realDonaldTrump to pursue all available legal remedies to ensure accuracy."
While Joe Biden spent Sunday morning at church, Mr Trump returned to his golf course in Virginia for the second day as he continued to insist he won the 2020 election.
While Mr Trump hasn't appeared in-person since the election results were announced, he was seen in video footage from the golf course and later posing with a bride on her wedding day.
As club members shouted "we love you" and "great job, Mr President", Mr Trump responded "we've got a long way to go", alluding to the legal battle ahead as he contests the results in key states.
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