Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner visits Iraq - U.S. official

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FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior advisor Jared Kushner arrive for a meeting with manufacturing CEOs at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. February 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, is visiting Iraq with Marine General Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, a senior Trump administration official said on Sunday.

 

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Kushner wanted to see Iraq for himself and to show support for the Iraqi government. The official was confirming a report by other media, including a tweet by a New York Times reporter.

 

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met Trump for the first time on March 20 and said afterwards that he won assurances of greater U.S. support in fighting Islamic State militants but cautioned that military might alone would not be sufficient.

 

Trump took office on Jan. 20, pledging a new strategy to defeat the hardline militant group that seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

 

Before Trump took office, Iraqi forces recaptured a string of major cities from the group, shrank its finances and significantly stemmed the flow of foreign fighters, all with the support of U.S.-led coalition air strikes and military advisers.

 

(Reporting By Steve Holland; Writing by Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Sandra Maler)

 

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I wonder how much this trip will cost the American taxpayers?  He's rich enough, let him pay for it. 

31 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

I wonder how much this trip will cost the American taxpayers?  He's rich enough, let him pay for it. 

He made the trip in his role as senior advisor to The President. Security as provided by the US is mandatory. It is SOP.

40 minutes ago, Ramen087 said:

He made the trip in his role as senior advisor to The President. Security as provided by the US is mandatory. It is SOP.

The awfulness isn't the cost. It's the fact that Kushner is entrusted with this grave responsibility.

ADVISORY - Story on Kushner visiting Iraq withdrawn

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FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior advisor Jared Kushner arrive for a meeting with manufacturing CEOs at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. February 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - The story "Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner visits Iraq, U.S. official says", the accompanying alert and subsequent update are wrong and are withdrawn.

 

 

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