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The Kushner Connection

A softball interview with Trump is unnerving staff inside Univision, and inside the White House, as the formerly left-leaning Spanish-language network—now under new leadership, and with surprising new Republican allies—undergoes a dramatic pivot to the right.

Some Univision journliasts saw the Trump interview as glaring evidence of a broader effort by their new parent company—which has close ties to Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—to curry favor with the former president.
Some Univision journliasts saw the Trump interview as glaring evidence of a broader effort by their new parent company—which has close ties to Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—to curry favor with the former president. Photo: John Lamparski/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
November 10, 2023

Earlier this week, former president Donald Trump gave an interview to Univision, the Spanish-language broadcaster, during which he threatened to weaponize the F.B.I. and the Justice Department against his political opponents. The statements, which came on the heels of a Washington Post report revealing that Trump and his allies had been drawing up plans to use the federal government to retaliate against adversaries and former cabinet members, were arguably the most brazenly authoritarian remarks the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has made to date in a mainstream media interview. And the interview reasonably unnerved the political pundit class—“dangerous” and “insane” are among the words that have reverberated across cable news in the last 24 hours.