Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump, is building quite the resume. From secret meetings in Trump Tower with Russian Ambassador Kislyak to heading a brand new White House office with "sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy” to being tasked with brokering peace in the Middle East, this guy is everywhere. All of that while overseeing his businesses worth an estimated $740 million. It’s good to be the son of a billionaire and the son-in-law of a millionaire, no?
As if all of that weren’t enough for the unpaid adviser to the president, now he’s accompanying our top military personnel to Iraq:
President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner arrived in Baghdad on Monday in a surprise visit to meet U.S. and Iraqi officials and to receive military briefings on the fight against Islamic State.
Mr. Kushner is the first member of Mr. Trump’s inner circle to visit the country, currently engaged in a fight to drive the militant group from Mosul and other areas. He was invited here by the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford, who is on a routine visit to meet with U.S. and Iraqi commanders and troops.
General Dunford wanted to give the President Trump a briefing on their ISIS strategy.
“I think anyone who’s involved in the discussion on where we go strategically—having good situational awareness about what’s happening tactically and hear it first hand and unfiltered, how our advisers assess the Iraqi security forces, both the opportunities and the challenges—will feed into somebody’s strategic view,” Gen. Dunford told the small group of reporters traveling with him on a military jet.
Who better to send to Iraq to get an understanding of a 16-year-old conflict than the unpaid, unelected, unqualified son-in-law of the Commander-in-Chief? Of course, Kushner had every opportunity to visit Iraq. Like many of his peers, the 36-year-old could’ve opted to sign up for military duty at any time in the last 16 years of his life.