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Reporting around May 1 showed Jared Kushner playing a central role in a giant Saudi arms push, including a meeting with Saudi officials near the White House. Even before later revelations piled up, the optics were toxic: the president’s son-in-law was helping drive a foreign weapons deal while the administration kept insisting this was just business as usual.
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Reporting around May 1 showed Jared Kushner playing a central role in a giant Saudi arms push, including a meeting with Saudi officials near the White House. Even before later revelations piled up, the optics were toxic: the president’s son-in-law was helping drive a foreign weapons deal while the administration kept insisting this was just business as usual.
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Reporting around May 1 showed Jared Kushner playing a central role in a giant Saudi arms push, including a meeting with Saudi officials near the White House. Even before later revelations piled up, the optics were toxic: the president’s son-in-law was helping drive a foreign weapons deal while the administration kept insisting this was just business as usual.
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