Jared Kushner – the billionaire investor, property developer and son-in-law of President Donald Trump – does not work for the US government. He has no official role in Trump’s administration, and as far as formalities go is simply a private citizen concerned with his own businesses.
Trump, though, has rarely been a man who is overly concerned with formalities. And in his second term, the President seems to have dealt with his mistrust of the State Department’s career diplomats by simply bypassing them entirely – putting his billionaire buddy Steve Witkoff and Kushner in charge of the serious overseas negotiations which the US government is involved in.
The results so far have been mixed, to say the least.
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Kushner’s peace deals often resemble what you’d expect a self-interested real estate guy to pull together. The US’s extended efforts to secure a long-term peace deal for Gaza resulted in wildly controversial plans for a “Gaza Riviera” luxury resort – the building of which would require billions of dollars and the relocation of most of the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip.
