The Senate on Monday confirmed Charles Kushner to function the ambassador to France and Monaco.
Kushner was confirmed by a vote of 51-45.
President Donald Trump introduced his intention to appoint Kushner to the place in November, calling him a “large enterprise chief, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will likely be a powerful advocate representing our Nation & its pursuits,” in a press release on Fact Social.
Kushner was pardoned by Trump through the president’s first time period for crimes together with federal tax evasion and FEC violations. Kushner pleaded responsible in 2005 to 18 counts and served two years in jail.
Charles Kushner, nominee for US Ambassador to France, appears on as US President Donald Trump meets with US Ambassadors within the Cupboard Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2025. (Photograph by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photograph by MANDEL NGAN/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
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When Kushner appeared earlier than the Senate International Relations Committee earlier this month for his listening to on the place, Kushner advised the panel he had made “very, very, very severe errors.”
However he advised the committee he believed his errors made him “higher with my judgment, higher for my part of life, higher in my values to essentially make me extra certified to do that job.”
Kushner is the daddy of Trump’s son-in-law and former advisor, Jared Kushner.
-ABC Information’ Allison Pecorin
