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Trump seizes on Jared Kushner’s bipartisan ‘road map’ for success

By Paul Bedard

Published November 15, 2018 9:58pm ET

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Trump seizes on Jared Kushner’s bipartisan ‘road map’ for success — President Trump's White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, smiles as former Sen. Jim DeMint of the Heritage Foundation, left, applauds as Trump recognizes Kushner as he speaks about H. R. 5682, the "First Step Act" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, which would reform America's criminal justice system. | (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Top White House aide Jared Kushner’s quiet but successful bipartisan efforts to make deals on trade and justice issues have been seized on by President Trump as a blueprint for keeping his agenda alive on a divided Capitol Hill as he enters the 2020 re-election season.

“It’s a good road map,” said a Trump insider, adding, “Jared’s is a guide for the future.”

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