He was the last choice of Washington insiders to be President Trump’s policy guru, and most simply dissed son-in-law Jared Kushner’s pick as a senior adviser to the president as good old nepotism.

But after four years in his office next to Trump’s unofficial haunt, the president’s private dining room, the 39-year-old has quietly racked up two dozen foreign and domestic policy wins that make up the core of the president’s legacy.