"A month after his first outreach to Ambassador Otaiba, Mr. Barrack wrote again on May 26 to introduce Mr. Kushner, who was preparing for a role as a presidential envoy to the Middle East. “You will love him and he agrees with our agenda!” Mr. Barrack promised in another email… Mr. Barrack’s efforts began to pay off. Mr. Kushner met Ambassador Otaiba in May 2016… When Mr. Trump won in November, Ambassador Otaiba was eager to pull Mr. Barrack even closer… “Thanks to you, I’m in consistent contact with Jared and that has been extremely helpful, for both sides I think,” Ambassador Otaiba wrote Mr. Barrack. They celebrated again in May 2017, when Mr. Trump made his first foreign trip as president, to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia… “It all started with you and JK and I so congratulations on a great beginning,” Mr. Barrack wrote to Ambassador Otaiba."
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