Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are bracing for the publication of “Kushner, Inc.: Greed, Ambition, Corruption” by Vicky Ward.

The book, subtitled “The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump,” due March 19 from St. Martin’s Press, will delve into the sordid case that got Jared’s father, real-estate developer Charles Kushner, a two-year prison sentence for witness tampering and other charges after Charles set a honey trap for his brother-in-law using a prostitute.

In 2005, Charles pleaded guilty to illegal campaign contributions and tax evasion in a deal brokered by then-US Attorney Chris Christie.

Jared, married for nine years to Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, has served as the president’s adviser since his inauguration.

Ward, whose boyfriend Richard Cohen is a wealthy real-estate tycoon, was able to hire a team of investigative reporters from Newsweek after the magazine was raided by the Manhattan DA’s office last year and several staffers were fired and others quit or were let go.

A source close to Ward said the reporters didn’t ghostwrite the book, but worked as fact checkers.

“Vicky did all the interviews — 220 in all,” said the source. “But she wanted top talent to double-check the facts. The turnover at Newsweek was beneficial.”

The Kushner camp — presented months ago with a list of questions from Ward — claims her facts are fabrications.

“Every point that Ms. Ward mentioned in what she calls her ‘fact-checking’ stage is entirely false,” Peter Mirijanian, spokesman for Jared’s lawyer Abbe Lowell, told me. “It seems she has written a book of fiction rather than any serious attempt to get the facts. Correcting everything wrong would take too long and be pointless.”

The publisher touted the presidential power couple known as Javanka, saying: “They are entitled inheritors of the worst kind; their combination of ignorance, arrogance and an insatiable lust for power has caused havoc all over the world, and may threaten the democracy of the United States.”

But one Trump supporter pointed out that Ward might have a grudge because the then-“Celebrity Apprentice” star attacked her as a “third rate writer” when her last book, “The Liar’s Ball,” about the GM Building, which Trump once owned, came out.

Trump called the 2014 book “very boring” and said, “She did a lousy job.”

Ward replied, “I don’t know how serious a literary critic Donald is.”

Harsher insults are on the horizon.

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