White House senior adviser and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner got talking points for text he included a highly heralded speech Trump gave during the 2016 presidential campaig, Politico reports.
Trump in March 2016 received a standing ovation for his speech before the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, or American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in Washington, D.C. He largely recited his speech from a teleprompter, and Kushner, an Orthodox Jew with connections to Israel, helped fine-tune his Israel policy.
But writer Emily Jane Fox wrote in her book, "Born Trump," that Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer essentially gave key points of the speech to Kushner.
Dermer and Kushner "talked for a solid hour about the U.N., about Iran, about hard lines and language that was very important to the Israelis, and about many people who would be in the audience that day," Fox writes.
Dermer, though, told Politico the claim was ridiculous.
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