U.S. Intelligence Officials Think Wendi Deng Murdoch Is Playing Jared Kushner
The Wall Street Journal published a very heartening scoop Monday, reporting that U.S. counterintelligence officials warned Jared Kushner early last year that close friend Wendi Deng Murdoch—ex-wife of billionaire Rupert and rumored paramour of Vladimir Putin—could be exploiting her relationship with Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump to “further the interests of the Chinese government.”
To be clear, the Journal isn’t reporting that Deng is acting as an agent of the Chinese government, per se, or that she has been accused of a crime—merely that she appeared to lobby for a series of real estate projects in the U.S. that would also benefit the Chinese government. That intelligence reportedly struck federal officials as noteworthy enough to pass along to Kushner, then a newly tapped senior White House adviser .