Jared Kushner claims that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) has told members of Kushner's family that Kushner is going to jail, The Guardian reports. 

Kushner is the one-time advisor to former President Donald Trump. He is also Trump's son-in-law, as he is married to Ivanka Trump, one of Trump's daughters.

Kushner and Ivanka have both been keeping quiet ever since the end of Trump administration. But, recently, Kushner made an appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast.

It was there that Kushner made the above claim about Schumer.

The details

According to Kushner, Schumer actually told friends of Kushner's mother that Kushner is going to jail.

Kushner, during the podcast, said, "My poor mom, I told her to stop, you know reading whatever, I said, ‘I promise you, we didn’t do anything wrong, it’s good.'"

"But, you know, she’d call me and say, well, you know, ‘our friends were on the Upper East Side were talking with Chuck Schumer who says Jared’s going to jail.’”

At this point you are probably wondering what exactly Schumer believes that Kushner would go to jail for.

According to The Hill, the answer is two-fold:

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and ex-adviser to former President Trump, said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) told his mother’s friends he was going to jail for his involvement in the 2016 election and alleged ties with Russia.

He did what?

The Hill goes on to detail that allegations made again Kushner, including the allegation that Kushner "sought to establish a 'back-channel' line of communication between Russia and the Trump campaign ahead of the 2016 election."

The Hill, for example, reports:

Kushner also met with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, in December, shortly after Trump won the 2016 election, along with Michael Flynn, who would become Trump’s first national security adviser. Kushner and Kislyak reportedly discussed a secure communications line between the Trump transition team the the Kremlin.

Here, it is worth pointing out the fact - as The Hill did - that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report "did not find evidence that anyone on Trump’s campaign was complicity in those efforts" by Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Kushner during the podcast said that he did not take the allegations against him "too serious" precisely because they had no basis.

Kushner, regarding the alleged comments made by Schumer, said:

This is like a leading senator saying these things and so it was just interesting for me to see how the whole world could believe something and be talking about it that I knew with 1,000 percent certainty was just not true. And, so, seeing that play out was very, very hard.