In the early days of the Trump presidency, Kushner was tasked with revamping the stalled Middle East peace process. After nearly 16 months on the job, or jobs, Kushner has delivered little and mostly drifted into the background of Trump's chaotic operation. Before his inauguration in 2017, he said, "If (Kushner) can't produce peace in the Middle East, nobody can." That Kushner would be unable to move Congress, where dysfunction has made a home since well before this first family arrived in Washington, is hardly a surprise. The simple, if unsatisfying, answer is that Trump trusts Kushner, making him one of the few remaining members of an exclusive, always thinning club.

Source: CNN May 14, 2018 23:03 UTC