Second lady Usha Vance was a secret adviser on a high-risk minerals deal with Ukraine this year, White House chronicler Jonathan Karl claims in a forthcoming book. The question of whether the February deal had been legally vetted arose during talks between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. Karl writes that that’s when the vice president stepped in to offer his wife’s legal expertise. “I can ask Usha to take a look at it,” Vance said, according to Politico, which obtained an excerpt from Karl’s book.