WASHINGTON -- When senior administration officials gathered in the Situation Room on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the repercussions of the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Vice President Mike Pence had a seat at the table. So did Robert O'Brien, the national security adviser, and Mark T
WASHINGTON — When senior administration officials gathered in the Situation Room on Tuesday for a meeting to discuss the repercussions of the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Vice President Mike Pence had a seat at the table. So did Robert O’Brien, the national security adviser, and Mark T. Esper, the defense secretary.Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, was sitting for a photo shoot for a planned Time magazine cover story.
Instead, Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, the president’s older daughter, is positioning himself to be the overseer of something of even greater personal interest to his father-in-law: Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Back then, Kushner’s influence in the region extended far beyond his stated portfolio of negotiating peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, setting an early tone by bypassing Cabinet members to persuade Trump to make Saudi Arabia his first stop abroad as president.
Kushner’s status as a member of the president’s family has also made it possible for him to choose the moments and issues where his role is highly visible. Last week, he was involved in the Trump campaign’s decision to spend $10 million on a 60-second ad that will run during the Super Bowl, an announcement that came out after the campaign of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York signaled it would make the same buy, a person familiar with his role said.
While he was not in any Situation Room meetings, Kushner pushed his father-in-law to deliver some kind of statement about the Soleimani strike from the White House rather than at a political rally later, despite concerns from other senior officials about the president speaking about a crisis that did not appear to be over.
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