In retrospect, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin's official travel to the Middle East raises some serious ethics questions.
Kushner was responsible, at least in part, for helping shape the administration’s policy, making at least three trips to Saudi Arabia during his father-in-law’s first year in the White House.
Indeed, the Times’ report added that Kushner even hired many of the same officials who worked on the U.S.-backed Abraham Fund to join his private-sector Affinity Partners firm. The Mnuchin angle is similar. The fact that the Treasury secretary visited the region is hardly shocking: His three predecessors did the same thing. But between 2006 and 2016, U.S. Treasury secretaries made eight trips to Persian Gulf monarchies. The TimesAnd Trump’s Treasury chief also hired those who worked on the Abraham Fund.
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