WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's son-in-law and top aide, Jared Kushner, has been registered to vote as a woman for eight years, US media reported.
Voter information records held by New York show the presidential adviser - whose portfolio includes everything from seeking peace in the Middle East to reining in the opioid crisis in the United States — was registered as "female."
The screenshot, published by Wired, is not the first time the young statesman has fallen foul of bureaucracy.
Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, also filled out paperwork for his White House security clearance wrongly and had to refile it repeatedly, CBS reported.
Prior to 2009, Kushner's New Jersey voter registration noted his gender as "unknown," according to The Hill news site.
Kushner, the scion of a wealthy property-owning family, is one of a number of Trump's inner circle previously found to have been registered to vote in more than one state during last year's election, the Washington Post has reported.
Others include ex-White House press secretary Sean Spicer and ex-lead strategist Stephen Bannon.
Multiple registrations were pointed to by the president as a sign of purported widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election.
Trump said millions of people illegally cast votes for Hillary Clinton but has never substantiated his claim.
Kushner — a person of interest in the ongoing probe into Russian interference in the US election — has also recently been accused of using private email accounts to conduct government business.
Trump's insurgent presidential campaign was galvanized by supporters' demands that Clinton be jailed for her use of private email servers while Secretary of State.
Personal email account
As a candidate, Trump routinely attacked his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, telling supporters "she has to go to jail" over the affair.
Following an investigation, the FBI recommended that no charges be brought against her, but noted she had been “extremely careless” in her handling of sensitive information.
Citing four officials, Politico said Kushner used a personal server to send messages to senior White House officials and outside advisers about media coverage, planning events, and other issues.
There is no suggestion the emails contained highly sensitive information or were classified, it added, but they could fall foul of the Presidential Records Act, which requires all documents related to the president’s personal and political activities to be archived.
Kushner’s numerous responsibilities within the Trump administration include brokering peace in the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner, confirmed the report in a statement to the media.
“Fewer than 100 emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account,” he said.
“These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal rather than his White House address.”
In addition to the email controversy, Kushner is facing scrutiny over the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, which is the subject of multiple ongoing probes including by independent prosecutor Robert Mueller.
In June 2016, Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr, Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort met with a Russian government attorney who an intermediary claimed had incriminating information about Clinton.