Jared Kushner

declining a salary and formal title does not change the reality of Kushner’s role — he exercises significant executive authority and has done so continuously throughout most of President Trump’s second term. And it certainly does not free him from the constitutional constraints of the Appointments Clause or the obligation to file public financial disclosures under the Ethics Act.

— From the CREW filing in the lawsuit (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington).

The mistake will be even bigger if the Americans control the pipelines and the Russians supply the gas.

— Michael Kellner, Green Party member of the German Bundestag; warned in the discussion about a potential Nord Stream deal that it would harm Europe.

Misleading stories will not distract me from the work President Trump asked me to do: help end wars, bring people together, and pursue peace. That work is too important.

— Jared Kushner, responding to reporting about his potential conflicts of interest, on X.

If Ukraine wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.

— Kushner said at the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv, addressing the Ukraine-Russia negotiations.

We have been doing everything we can to try and find a way out of a mess that was created before President Trump’s time, which has had a huge toll, and so we’re going to do our best to try and make progress.

— Jared Kushner during a Sunday press conference in Ukraine, explaining efforts under President Trump's leadership.

Putin has ordered that starting at midnight tonight for three days there shall be no attacks on Kyiv

— Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskow, speaking to Tass on Saturday