Jared Kushner Asserts Authority At NSC

How in the world did this happen?

Of all the people in the Trump family, no one was less identified with the campaign than Jared Kushner. Barron Trump had a higher profile. Tiffany Trump spoke at the RNC.

“White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner is leading an unprecedented effort to meddle in the White House’s National Security Council, causing mayhem for senior staff who say the president’s son-in-law is interfering in key foreign policy debates, according to Trump administration officials who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

Kushner has taken aggressive action to micro-manage the NSC, overshadowing even recently installed National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, according to sources both inside and outside the White House who described Kushner’s behavior as highly unusual and damaging to the country’s national security infrastructure.

Never before has a White House permitted such a figure to intervene in the NSC, which is traditionally given leeway to investigate foreign policy matters and bring advice to the president. …”

I don’t recall the threat to Trump’s “America First” agenda posed by Jared Kushner being discussed a single time anywhere in the press by any of Trump’s critics or opponents. It wasn’t a part of the national conversation. The only people in America who imagined such a scenario unfolding were the few holdouts in the anti-Semite community who refused to back Trump because of his Jewish ties.