Jared Kushner pressured Washington Post to fire editor over Russia, book says

Marty Baron says Trump's son-in-law leaned on Post publisher to withdraw support of Russia election interference investigation

Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner, tried to persuade the publisher of the Washington Post to fire its editor over coverage of the Russia investigation, that editor, Marty Baron, writes in a new book.

With no delay and without pause during his four years as president," Baron writes, Trump and his team would go after the Post and everyone else in the media who didn't bend to his wishes.