Jared Kushner's Make-or-Break Week
The president’s aide and son-in-law planned Trump’s closely watched foreign trip, even as his contacts with Russian officials draw increasing scrutiny.
This could be the most consequential week of Jared Kushner’s young life.
The 36-year-old has gone from being known mostly in New York real-estate circles, and there mostly as the scion of a powerful family with only a mediocre track record of his own, to wunderkind senior adviser—and, oh yeah, son-in-law—to President Trump. Now Trump is headed abroad on his first foreign trip, which has largely been Kushner’s project. Meanwhile, an increasingly hot investigation into the Trump White House’s ties to Russia threatens
