Yes, Jared Kushner’s WhatsApp is a problem

Published March 22, 2019 7:15pm ET



President Trump spent the better part of his 2016 campaign arguing that there was something seriously wrong with Hillary Clinton’s private email server. People attending his rallies routinely chanted, “Lock her up.” You’d think that would mean that he’d take cybersecurity seriously in his own administration.

But as became clear on Thursday, first son-in-law Jared Kushner used Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp to conduct White House business.

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