At one point during the campaign, when Trump wanted to speak more substantively about China, he gave Kushner a summary of his views and then asked him to do some research. Kushner simply went on Amazon, where he was struck by the title of one book, Death by China, co-authored by Peter Navarro. He cold-called Navarro, a well-known trade-deficit hawk, who agreed to join the team as an economic adviser. (When he joined, Navarro was in fact the campaigns only economic adviser.)
Kushner operated in much the same way when it came to crafting Trumps tax plancalling up someone for help out of the blue. Given the initial absence of pros who could do the job properly, he also tried his hand at writing speeches. Responding to criticism from the boss (Jared, this is terrible!), Kushner said, according to a person familiar with the episode, Im not a fucking speechwriter. I am a real-estate guy.'
