Jared Kushner’s no good, very bad week

Published March 3, 2018 5:01am ET



Presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner suffered several blows this week, from flouting ethics rules and losing access to top secret information to facing criticism from colleagues for “being tricked” by foreign officials.

Kushner faced an onslaught of unflattering headlines beginning Tuesday, after news broke that the top secret interim security clearance he had been operating on as a senior adviser to President Trump had been downgraded to that typically held by low-to-mid-level staffers. The decision was made by Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly, whom Kushner and Ivanka Trump have struggled to get along with since he assumed control of the West Wing last July.

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