The Guardian

Sinking in the Swamp says Trump’s ‘lead point of contact’ for US allies seemed unaware of alliance members’ commitment to defend each other from attack

Martin Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Thu 6 Feb 2020

Jared Kushner listens as Donald Trump meets the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, at the residence of the US ambassador to the UK, in London on 3 December 2019. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

Though Jared Kushner was a “lead point of contact” for US allies worried about Donald Trump’s threats to Nato, the president’s son-in-law did not “seem to know what Nato actually did”, a new book claims.

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Kushner even appeared to be ignorant of article 5, the treaty clause which stipulates that an attack on one member is an attack on all.

The claim is contained in Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington, by Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng, two reporters for the Daily Beast. The Guardian obtained a copy of the book, which has been excerpted elsewhere and will be published on 11 February.

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