Stuck in a drab Geneva conference room discussing painful compromises to end a war, Ukrainian officials last Sunday could not help but notice the US delegate furiously tapping away at his laptop.
“I was kind of surprised to see Jared [Kushner] at first . . . but then I appreciated his mood,” said Sergiy Kyslytsya, one of the Ukrainian ministers in the room. This was Donald Trump’s son-in-law, his unofficial envoy and general foreign policy fixer — and he was busy taking notes about Ukraine.
Kushner, who married the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump in 2009, has long carried the weight of some of his father-in-law’s most impossible diplomatic missions.