Yep. It figures Salman's "in my pocket" Kushner would ignore protocol as it works fine for his father-in-law. Breaking protocol makes the powerful who do feel more powerful. And it figures Kushner would call the third link of his Kushner-Netanyahu-Salman triplet in that crisis situation, as they have a lot of time, and energy, and money invested in the alliance.
A tale of two houses: how Jared Kushner fuelled the Trump-Saudi love-in Trump’s loyalty to Riyadh amid the Jamal Khashoggi crisis is stretching his credibility to breaking point Julian Borger in Washington Tue 16 Oct 2018 07.12 EDT Last modified on Tue 16 Oct 2018 15.50 EDT [...] Jared Kushner helped build the alliance between the House of Saud and the House of Trump. The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser took the lead in promoting Mohammed bin Salman as a Saudi visionary, and persuaded the administration to hitch US Middle East policy to the prince’s rising star.
Together the two thirty-something princelings, MBS and Kushner, stayed up late into the night planning to remake the map of the Middle East with bold thinking and mountains of cash. For now, however, those plans are stalled. The Saudi crown prince stands accused of masterminding the cold-blooded murder of a dissident journalist, Kushner is silent and Donald Trump has been performing crisis public relations for the Saudi monarchy. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/16/jared-kushner-trump-saudi-khashoggi-mbs
And it all fits with 'ny daughter's husband' Trump wanting to run foreign policy from the White House.
During the Presidential transition, Giuliani tried—and failed—to persuade Trump to nominate him for Secretary of State. “I’ve always thought that I knew a lot more about foreign policy than anybody ever knew,” Giuliani told me. “He had me slotted in as Attorney General. He offered me the job, I turned it down.” (He also turned down Secretary of Homeland Security.) Theories abound about Trump’s refusal to give Giuliani the State Department job. One of them is that Trump was penalizing him for his closeness to Christie, who had been placed in charge of the transition and then was quickly fired. “Rudy was aligned with Chris Christie, and that wasn’t a good thing to be in that period,” a Trump friend told me. Another is that Priebus, Trump’s first chief of staff, sabotaged Giuliani’s bid. “Reince was leaking like crazy, trying to kill Rudy’s chances,” Anthony Scaramucci, who was on the transition team before his brief stint as the White House communications director, told me. (Priebus denies this.) Yet another theory is that Kushner and Bannon wanted a weak Secretary of State so that they could run foreign policy out of the White House. In the end, Rex Tillerson, the Exxon chief executive, who had no government experience and no prior relationship with Trump, was given the position. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/10/how-rudy-giuliani-turned-into-trumps-clown
And it figures Kushner would not be much bothered by Salman's killing of an American-resident journalist who fled Saudi Arabia because so many of his friends were getting killed.
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