“Kushner has divested from a small portion of Kushner Companies, but has retained substantial ownership. A balloon payment due in 2018 on the badly underwater property at 666 Fifth Avenue has been a ticking clock on the fortunes of the Kushner family.” And that makes this report troubling (and part of an even more troubling pattern): Jared Kushner’s real-estate firm sought money directly from Qatar government weeks before blockade. (One of the big aspects of these conflict of interest stories is how desperate the key players are for loans. They don’t want them. They need them. And if they’re asking Qatar, a lot of sources have already turned them down…)

+ NBC: Mueller team asking if Kushner foreign business ties influenced Trump policy.