Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients Who Spent Millions for Sway

The WhatsApp messages go out, often several times a week, to royals across the Persian Gulf.

The sender: Jared Kushner, envoy for President Donald Trump — and a private investor handling billions of dollars for those same princes and emirs.

Since his father-in-law took the US to war with Iran, he’s engaged in a campaign of official peacemaking and private moneymaking like none in modern American history.

Between attempts to broker peace, Kushner has participated in investment meetings at his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, which manages billions for Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, ...