Jared Kushner is a foreign adversary's dream. He's financially awash in red, writes the Washington Post.
The Kushner family bought 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan in 2007 for $1.8 billion, and $1.2 billion in debt is due in less than a year.
He's desperate.
It has sought investors for a redevelopment plan but has not found any.
And as we all suspected, he isn't the brightest bulb—something that's been lost on no one.
Officials in the White House were concerned that Kushner was “naive and being tricked” in conversations with foreign officials, some of whom said they wanted to deal only with Kushner directly and not more experienced personnel, said one former White House official.
Go figure. And had it not been for the furor over Trump's White House giving a blackmail-able wife beater access to high-level intelligence, Kushner would still have his high-level security clearance, which was reportedly downgraded last week. In part, that's because operatives from the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico have been privately discussing ways they can use the unfortunate case of Jared Kushner to their advantage. Oh, and Kushner had apparently been hiding some of his contacts with foreign leaders from the National Security Council.
H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s national security adviser, learned that Kushner had contacts with foreign officials that he did not coordinate through the National Security Council or officially report. The issue of foreign officials talking about their meetings with Kushner and their perceptions of his vulnerabilities was a subject raised in McMaster’s daily intelligence briefings, according to the current and former officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. [...]
White House officials said McMaster was taken aback by some of Kushner’s foreign contacts.
“When he learned about it, it surprised him,” one official said. “He thought that was weird. . . . It was an unusual thing. I don’t know that any White House has done it this way before.”
Remember when the Post reported that Kushner had been seeking to set up a secret backchannel to Russia? That also seemed a little unusual. And for some reason, certain foreign officials were insisting on communicating through Kushner and Kushner alone—perhaps the singularly most vulnerable White House official who was also the most armed and dangerous from an intelligence perspective.
Every day and every new report reveals another blow Donald Trump has dealt to our national security. Whether or not Trump turns out to be a conspiratorial traitor to our country, he's certainly running a White House that's opened the channels to one.