Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance -- The New York Times

...Mr. Trump’s decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html