Ann Coulter urged Trump not to hire Jared Kushner as chief of staff: report

Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter reportedly pressured President Trump not to hire his son-in-law Jared Kushner as his chief of staff, New York Magazine says. 

“Nobody is apparently telling you this,” Coulter reportedly told Trump during the presidential transition as he was assembling his White House staff. “But you can’t. You just can’t hire your children.”

Kushner, who is now an unpaid senior adviser to the president along with his wife Ivanka Trump, was one of Trump’s early considerations for the job. The campaign marked the first foray into politics for Kushner, who previously worked as a real-estate investor and publisher of the New York Observer.

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The president eventually chose former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as his chief of staff, who served in the White House until his firing in July, only six months into Trump’s term. Priebus was replaced by John Kelly, who had served as secretary of Homeland Security.

Coulter, the author of “In Trump We Trust,” was an early supporter of Trump. She has sometimes criticized the president, however, especially for what she says has been his failure to meet his campaign promises so far on immigration.