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Key point about Kushner: Trump’s intervention didn’t even give him the highest level of clearance. How can someone who lacks such clearance run point on the Middle East, not to mention his other foreign adventures? 1/ washingtonpost.com/politics/trump… 
Last night’s stories didn’t explain why Trump didn’t give Kushner an SCI clearance. Was he afraid CIA would leak his role? Was he conned by staff into thinking he lacked authority to do it? 2/
Perhaps then-CIA Pompeo, who seems to be the only national security appointee whom Trump actually likes, warned him not to do it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whatever the reason, it’s 🍌🍌🍌 that Kushner lacks such clearance but is hobnobbing with MbS, among much else. 3/
At least Trump didn’t have to spend $$ to get Kushner his top-secret clearance. When Kushner’s dad bought Jared a spot at Harvard, it cost $2.5 million! 4/end. propublica.org/article/the-st…
