According to Rex Tillerson, Jared Kushner fancies himself a one-man State Department
, “There’s a difference between the technocrats and…the people. The technocrats are focused on very technocratic things.”
Still, for all his overconfidence, you might have thought Kushner would’ve at least understood that consulting people with actual knowledge and years of experience would be wise, and that looping the State Department in on his escapades would be good idea.
On several occasions, Tillerson said he was blindsided by Kushner’s discussions with world leaders. In one instance, Tillerson said he learned that Kushner was meeting with Mexico’s foreign secretary because he happened to be in the same Washington restaurant while the two men hashed out a “fairly comprehensive plan of action” that Tillerson didn’t know about.
“The owner of the restaurant…came around and said: “Oh, Mr. Secretary, you might be interested to know the Foreign Secretary of Mexico is seated at a table near the back in case you want to go by and say hello to him,” Tillerson said. “And so I did.” Tillerson said he saw the “color go out of the face” of the foreign secretary as he walked into the room. “I said: Welcome to Washington…. Give me a call next time you’re coming to town.
At one point, deeply frustrated that the first son-in-law was going abroad and effectively running “his own agenda,” Tillerson says he confronted Kushner about the issue, to which Kushner responded that he “would try to do better,” but “not much changed.” It’s unclear if Kushner has deigned to inform Tillerson‘s successor,Mohammed bin Salman
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