Evan Osnos

Evan Osnos, staff writer for the New Yorker. Osnos recently co-authored a detailed report with Adam Entous about how senior adviser to the president, Jared Kushner is unable to attain White House security clearance. Despite not having security clearance Kushner still gets access everyday to the president’s highly classified daily brief from the intelligence community. We also learn from the article that Kushner made the decision to meet alone, one on one with Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai. Kushner has reportedly discussed his own business interests alongside policy with Cui. Last year the New York Times reported that eight days after the election Kushner met with an insurance company tied to the Chinese government that was considering putting millions of dollars into Kushner’s struggling 666 Fifth Avenue building in Manhattan. Kushner reportedly has to make a 1.2 billion dollar mortgage payment on the building next year despite the fact that there are no signs he will be able to make that payment.