Kushner Travels to Iraq With Chairman of Joint Chiefs

Jared Kushner, son-in-law of of President-elect Donald Trump walks from Trump Tower, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, in New York. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Jared Kushner, son-in-law of of President-elect Donald Trump walks from Trump Tower, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, in New York. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, is in Iraq.

A senior administration official says Kushner is traveling in the Middle East with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford.

Other details about the trip are not being released. The official isn’t authorized to speak about confidential meetings by name and demanded anonymity.

Kushner’s West Wing portfolio is robust. He has been deeply involved with presidential staffing and has played the role of shadow diplomat, advising on relations with the Middle East, Canada and Mexico. Last week he launched a task force meant to modernize government using lessons drawn from the private sector.

Kushner is married to Trump’s oldest daughter, Ivanka.

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  1. To figure out how to steal oil Trump said they missed last time?

  2. He’s America’s Forrest Gump now – the world is his box of chocolates and he is everywhere. Luckily he doesn’t seem to accomplish much.

  3. Presumably to be installed as new viceroy while overseeing the “taking of the oil” as his father in-law likes to describe the transaction.

    In what parallel universe is a Trump/Kushner co-production not a shakedown?

  4. Last week he launched a task force meant to modernize government using lessons drawn from the private sector.

    This is such a bullshit line. “Oh he’s a businessman, so he can save us all” - They said the same thing about Bush, our first MBA president if you remember.

  5. The dude can stay there.

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