Jared Kushner, whom the Kushner family claims had already sold his stake in 666 Fifth Avenue to them (though it’s not clear when), is a senior White House adviser whose purview has included foreign policy. The New York Times reported in January that Kushner spearheaded the talks with Anbang about an investment in his family’s business, that he met over dinner with Anbang’s chairman, Wu Xiaohui, to discuss the transaction about a week after his father-in-law was elected president, and that the talks had begun last July or so when Trump had already locked up the Republican nomination.

“A classic way you influence people is by financially helping their family,” one public interest advocate told the Bloomberg reporters about the Anbang deal.

Well, duh. Of course that’s how it works.

And therein lies a problem: If we’ve learned anything about Trump in the chaotic seven weeks since he assumed the presidency, it’s that his entire clan will test our capacity for surprise, distaste and even outrage when it comes to financial conflicts of interest.