Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' Joe Biden left behind

WASHINGTON-- Jared Kushner, a senior adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, claimed that many of his efforts since he started his role at the White House have been focused on "cleaning up the messes that Vice President Biden left behind."

Speaking during an interview with Israel’s Channel 13 News published by Axios, Kushner was responding to comments Biden made on "60 Minutes," where he said it was improper for Kushner, and Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, to have senior-level positions in the White House.

“Look, he’s entitled to his opinion, but a lot of the work that the president's had me doing over the last three years has actually been cleaning up the messes that Vice President Biden left behind,” Kushner said. "I think President Trump’s entitled to pick his team, and we’ve worked with him for a long time, and I think we’ve done a good job of trying to help him be successful."

Kushner continued to slam the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Trump withdrew from, and claimed that other reforms enacted by the current administration, "rolled back a lot of the very harsh laws that were created and partially written by Vice President Biden over 20 years ago, which put a lot of African Americans in prison and really destroyed a generation and did a lot of harm to our country."

Ivanka and Jared have worked within the Trump administration for some time now and have accompanied the President on foreign trips where they've acted as unofficial diplomats.

“If I get elected president, my children are not going to have offices in the White House. My children are not going to sit in on Cabinet meetings,” Biden said on "60 Minutes."

“It’s just simply improper because you should make it clear to the American public that everything you’re doing is for them. And the idea that you’re going to have his children, his son-in-law, et cetera engaged in the day-to-day operation of things they know nothing about.”

Host Norah O’Donnell pressed, “You don’t think that Jared Kushner should be negotiating a Middle East peace solution?”

"No, I don't," Biden answered, laughing. "I don't. What-- what credentials does he bring to that?"

In a response to the “60 Minutes” interview, the White House said, “Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are serving the American people every day, with no salary, helping deliver on the promises President Trump made to the American people.”

During the same interview, Kusher said Trump's "record of accomplishments is unimpeachable." The President is currently facing an impeachment inquiry over whether he withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure them to investigate Biden.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jared Kushner says he is 'cleaning up the messes' Biden left behind