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President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is also a senior White House advisor, is regularly giving counsel to 2020 Trump campaign leaders on how to appeal to online donors and where to spend their money.

As recently as Thursday, Kushner met with campaign leadership, including campaign chief Brad Parscale, along with Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel.

Kushner and Parscale regularly hold strategy sessions on how to improve messaging about Trump’s accomplishments to small-dollar donors, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Kushner also has pushed for the campaign to spend more money on the digital fundraising operation rather than relying on more traditional methods such as mailers.

Parscale was the campaign’s digital director in 2016. Kushner, as an advisor for Trump’s first presidential run, had the campaign use Facebook and other social media platforms to make pitches to voters.
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Reps. Donald Beyer, D-Va., and Ted Lieu, D-Calif., sent a letter last month to the Office of Special Counsel, which enforces the Hatch Act, asking for an investigation. The request came after Kushner reportedly had “multiple daily conversations” with Parscale about the campaign, according to Yahoo, and organized a meeting with top donors, including Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, at the White House, The New York Times previously reported.

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