Trump's 'unusual' choice

For two consecutive days, US President-elect Donald Trump announced his selection of two in-laws for several important positions in his upcoming administration.

US President-elect Donald Trump on December 1 selected Lebanese billionaire Massad Boulos as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle East affairs, according to CNN. "Mr. Massad Boulos is a businessman and a staunch advocate for peace in the Middle East. He will be a strong supporter of the United States and its interests, and I am delighted to have him on our team," Trump said in a statement on the social network Truth Social.

In the announcement, Mr. Trump did not mention his in-law relationship with Mr. Boulos. Mr. Boulos is the father-in-law of Ms. Tiffany Trump - Mr. Trump's daughter - and has been heavily involved in Mr. Trump's election campaign in Muslim American communities in "battleground" states.

This is the second time President-elect Trump has chosen his in-laws for an important position in his upcoming administration. On November 30, Mr. Trump nominated his in-law Charles Kushner as the US Ambassador to France. Mr. Kushner is the father-in-law of Ms. Ivanka Trump - another daughter of Mr. Trump.

Messrs. Massad Boulos (left) , Donald Trump (middle) and Charles Kushner

Mr. Trump's choice of two in-laws to hold important positions in the upcoming US administration is an "unusual" choice, showing that he will continue the precedent of relying on relatives in his second term, according to CNN. From 2017 to 2021, Ms. Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner worked as senior advisors at the White House, giving opinions on many issues.

Jared Kushner, who was one of the key negotiators of the Abraham Accords, a treaty normalizing relations between Israel and the UAE, is expected to continue advising President-elect Trump on Middle East issues from outside the White House. Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump has said she has no intention of returning to the White House in any official capacity.

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The appointment raises questions about the influence and power of those related to the Trump family in the US government, according to CNN. The US television station said that Mr. Jared Kushner's plan to continue advising on Middle East issues will come with a new layer of complexity. That is, shortly after leaving the White House in 2021, he established an investment fund with major support from sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf, and in recent years, his investment fund has received $ 2 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.

President Biden unexpectedly pardons his son

Less than two months before leaving office, US President Joe Biden announced on December 1 that he had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden. According to CNN, this decision goes against the commitment that President Biden had previously made that he would not pardon Mr. Hunter.

Hunter was convicted in June by a Delaware federal jury of lying about using illegal drugs to buy a gun in 2018. In September, Hunter pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges. After Hunter’s pardon, judges overseeing his cases may cancel sentencing hearings, which had been scheduled for Dec. 12 in the gun case and Dec. 16 in the tax case.

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