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Jared Kushner told Trump that stolen-election claim ‘not the approach’ he would take

Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner testified that he raised his disagreements with Mr. Trump about falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen.

In videotaped testimony introduced Monday, Mr. Kushner told the special Jan. 6 committee he had advised Mr. Trump that pushing claims of a stolen election were “not the approach I would take if I were you.” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had been urging the president to forge ahead with claims of widespread voter fraud.

Mr. Kushner, who served as a senior White House adviser, said Mr. Trump responded by saying he had “confidence in Rudy.