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Jared Kushner Reveals Rare Details About Ties With Saudi Crown Prince

New memoir offers look at how the two men forged a friendly political alliance that deepened into a post-White House business partnership

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Mohammed bin Salman with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in May 2017. Photo: jonathan ernst/Reuters

In the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner made an urgent call to Mohammed bin Salman, who was then serving as Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince, with an appeal for help to ensure that the president’s first overseas trip to the kingdom would be a success.

Mr. Kushner, a top White House adviser, was nearly alone in urging his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, to go.

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