These plans were laid before Kushner's daddy was.

Not this particular plan, maybe a revision from failed prior policies, after many Road Runner and Wiley Coyote failures in the middle east. But that would have to conclude that Trump was well advised in advance what the particular objective would be concerning the middle east before he even announced a run for president. It's not like they'd bring him in if they didn't know he had, what Trump himself terms, the "right ingredient" to get the job done, and this would have been exclusive between him and the policy makers as everyone else told Kushner this wasn't going to fly.

Billy O'Reilly interview with Donald Trump 3/31/2011 on why Bush and Obama didn't get tough on China:

"They don't have the capacity to do it. Maybe they are not smart enough, maybe they are not tough enough, maybe they don't have the right ingredient to do it."