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Trump is "obviously thinking about" running for president in 2024: Kushner
"I know that he's obviously thinking about it, he hates seeing what's happening in the country," Jared Kushner told Sky News.
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Advisor Jared Kushner (right) looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office to announce that Bahrain will establish diplomatic relations with Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC on September 11, 2020. (Agence France Presse/Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)
Donald Trump is considering running to be US President in 2024, his son-in-law and former aide said on Friday.
"I know that he's obviously thinking about it, he hates seeing what's happening in the country," Jared Kushner told Sky News.
Asked when Trump might make a decision, Kushner said: "Nobody can speak for him."
Asked to confirm that Trump was not ruling out running for president again, Kushner added: "With Trump it's hard to rule anything out, he's a very flexible thing."
Earlier on Thursday, US President Joe Biden accused supporters of Trump of seeking to take the United States "backwards" and warned that democracy in the country is not guaranteed.
"MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards. Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love," Biden said, according to excerpts of a speech the president will deliver in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"For a long time, we've reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not. We have to defend it. Protect it. Stand up for it. Each and every one of us."
Biden's speech -- set for 8:00 pm (0000 GMT) -- will take place near the building where the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were adopted more than two centuries ago.
The president is seeking to give his Democratic Party a boost before voters go to the polls in November, with control of Congress for the remainder of his first term in the balance.
