You're young, you're rich, and you marry well.

Your father-in-law becomes president in the United States, and you suddenly find yourself

in the White House, where, even though you've never worked in government a day in your life,

you're putting charge of bringing peace to the Middle East and negotiating international

trade deals, not to mention solving the opiate crisis, reforming veterans' care, and reinventing

governments so that it works as you tell the world like a great American company.

See there's a small problem.

You can't get a security clearance.

You fill out your security form, and you forget to mention all the dozens of contacts you've

had with foreign government officials and ambassadors.

You fill it out again, and again, as your lawyers keep finding more stuff you forgot to mention.

US intelligence agencies pick up intercepts of foreign officials in China, the United Arab

Emirates, and elsewhere talking about how they can manipulate you because of your naivete

and your family's company's interests in desperately seeking cash from overseas investors.

Welcome to the world of Jared Kushner, who this week was stripped of his top secret security

clearance, resulting in a serious downgrading of his ability to do his job.

He comes during a week of major new turmoil within the Trump administration, including

the resignation of yet another White House communications director and an extraordinary

public spat between the president and his own attorney general, all of which we'll explore

on this week's episode of Skull Duggery.

There is absolutely no collusion.

I didn't make a phone call to Russia.

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