Foreign officials want to influence Jared Kushner: Report

Aaron P. Bernstein | Reuters

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner departs following his appearance before a closed session of the Senate Intelligence Committee as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. July 24, 2017.

Officials in the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico privately discussed how their nations can benefit from Kushner’s international business dealings and lack of government experience, unnamed sources told the newspaper.

Before becoming a White House senior adviser, Kushner ran his family real-estate firm Kushner Companies, a job that saw him court foreign financing.

That search for investors made Kushner “particularly manipulable” in the eyes of U.A.E. officials, for instance, the Post said, citing current and former U.S. administrative representatives who spoke based on intelligence reports about the matter.

There are concerns in the White House that Kushner was “naive and being tricked” in his conversations with foreign officials, the Post continued.