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Trump taps Massad Boulos, another in-law, as adviser on Middle East

The president-elect often named family members to posts during his campaign and in his first term.

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Massad Boulos with Donald Trump in Dearborn, Michigan, during the campaign. Boulos made repeated trips to Michigan and other key swing states in the run-up to the election to build support for Trump among Arab Americans and Muslims. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
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President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he would nominate Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman and the father-in-law of his daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser covering Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

Trump has been keeping many family members in his inner circle. On Saturday, Trump announced he had tapped Charles Kushner, a New Jersey real estate developer and father-in-law to his daughter Ivanka, to be the ambassador to France.