"I'm not the best diplomat": Charles Kushner explains himself after his controversial letter to Macron

"I'm not interfering," said the US ambassador to France, Charles Kushner , on LCI on Thursday evening. He was receiving journalist Darius Rochebin in the salons of the American representation on Avenue Gabriel, at the bottom of the Champs-Élysées.

In a letter published earlier this week, the diplomat criticized Emmanuel Macron for "the lack of sufficient action" in the face of "the surge in anti-Semitism." "France firmly refutes these latest allegations," the Quai d'Orsay responded a few hours after the letter was published, announcing the ambassador's summons on Monday .

But Charles Kushner didn't go. He preferred to send a chargé d'affaires... A hiccup that could irritate those in high places. "I'm not the best diplomat, and I don't think Donald Trump is either. It wasn't a lack of respect on my part," soberly explained the father of Jared Kushner , the husband of Ivanka Trump , the eldest daughter of the President of the United States.

"My letter was not intended to upset Emmanuel Macron," he continued, adding, as an excuse, that "in the United States, anti-Semitism is very present," but to imply that the American president was taking more measures than his French counterpart.

In any case, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron have "a healthy and good relationship," assures the New York real estate businessman.

But that's where the good words end. Returning to the formalities, he notes that "Donald Trump has been in power for eight months, and has already done a fantastic job. The Europeans may have protocol, but they have accomplished nothing on the hot topic" of the war in Ukraine.

As for the two-state solution, "it's an illusion (...) France is strengthening Hamas," said Charles Kushner, a few days after Benjamin Netanyahu's violent attack on the French president , whom he accused of "fueling the anti-Semitic fire" by calling for international recognition of the State of Palestine . An analysis described as "erroneous, abject" by the French presidency.