Earlier today, Nikki Haley informed reporters gathered in the Oval Office that she will resign from her post as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in January, an announcement that reportedly caught White House staffers and senior foreign-policy officials alike off guard. But her departure wasn’t the only surprise Haley had in store for the room. Sitting next to the president, the former South Carolina governor revealed, without having the C.I.A. declassify it first, that the Trump administration has a covert genius in its ranks—one who keeps his superior intellect so undercover that people have long assumed his I.Q. is in the single digits.

“Jared [Kushner] is such a hidden genius that no one understands,” Haley said of the First Son-in-Law, emphasis ours because this is basically a state secret. “To re-do the NAFTA deal the way he did. What I’ve done working with him on the Middle East peace plan, it is so unbelievably well done . . . and [Jared and Ivanka] do a lot of things behind the scenes that I wish more people knew about because we’re a better country because they’re in this administration.”

The fact that this is the first time Kushner has ever been described in such terms by anyone—save for the time Trump administration hanger-on Anthony Scaramucci called him a 21st-century Alexander Hamilton—and that there is zero evidence to back it up, does not mean it‘s not true. Instead, it simply underscores the fact that all those instances in which Jared made us think he was a total moron were simply cover. Said instances, for those of you who need a refresher, include: