FBI ‘warned’ Jared Kushner about Wendi Deng Murdoch

Donald Trump’s son-in-law was told the businesswoman might try to ‘further Beijing’s interests’

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Wendi Deng Murdoch was the third wife of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, who filed for divorce in 2013
(Image credit: Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Jared Kushner was warned by US spies in early 2017 that Wendi Deng Murdoch might use her friendship with him and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to “help China”, it has been claimed.

The report about Rupert Murdoch’s ex-wife - published in Murdoch-owned newspaper The Wall Street Journal - says US officials feared the Chinese-American businesswoman “might seek to help the Chinese government” using her US political connections.

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