'New York Observer' Writer Publicly Confronts Boss Over Trump Tweet

Jared Kushner, owner of the New York Observer, is a quiet but important adviser to his father-in-law, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Kushner is also Jewish. Last weekend, when Trump tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton with what many saw as the Star of David over a pile of money, Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump, who's also Jewish, were attacked on Twitter for not speaking out.

Now, one of Kushner's own employees at the Observer is calling him out. Entertainment writer Dana Schwartz penned an open letter to Kushner. She wrote: "I’m asking you, not as a “gotcha” journalist or as a liberal but as a human being: how do you allow this?"

In a short statement, Kushner said Trump "does not at all subscribe to any racist or anti-semitic thinking."

Schwartz spoke to WNYC's Soterios Johnson about her letter.

UPDATE: 

Since the publishing of this interview, Jared Kushner has written a longer response to Schwartz's letter.