Why Is Jared Kushner Still in the White House?
The many connections between Russia and the president’s son-in-law pose a challenge to the Trump administration.
For months, the joke about Jared Kushner is that he’s somehow managed to end up at the center of everything: Middle East peace, reimagining government, Iraq, criminal-justice reform, relations with Mexico, and probably a half-dozen more issues forgotten even by the White House senior adviser himself.
But the president’s son-in-law is also directly in the center of things in a more troublesome way. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that White House lawyers felt that Kushner’s multiple entanglements with Russia made him too great a liability and wanted him to leave the president’s staff:
After some members of the legal team aired their concerns to Mr. Trump in June, including
