When Jared Met MBS

For the past two years, White House advisor Jared Kushner and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman have been entwined in an intimate affair of the foreign policy mind.

Texting and calling, the two are on a first name basis.  Reportedly, the Saudi prince prefers to use WhatsApp for their feverish communications.
Over the weekend, the New York Times dropped a stink bomb on the White House administration’s alliance with Saudi Arabia.  In a piece headlined “The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House”, the Grey Lady exposed what one analyst described as a “bromance” between the two wealthy heirs.
Official Washington and the president’s opponents are in an uproar.  Likely incoming Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Congressman Eliot Engel promises to &ldqu ...