Wednesday, May 24, 2017 10:12:42 AM
Kushner’s Kremlin connection focus
"Trump Being Treated Like A Child As White House
Manages His Schedule To Keep Him Off Twitter"
[VIDEO] 1:01 Trump says no collusion with Russia, investigation a "witch hunt"
Will Pavia
The Times
3:57PM May 22, 2017
In a capital quietened by the departure of President Donald Trump to the Middle East, it has become a sort of parlour game question: was Jared Kushner the “significant person of interest” in the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the election?
The FBI investigation that began last summer is said to have reached high into the Trump administration. The Washington Post, citing an unnamed source, reported that the adviser was “someone close to the president”, and noted that three senior officials have acknowledged contacts with Russian officials: Rex Tillerson, secretary of state; Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general; and Mr Kushner, the president’s son-in-law.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
New York magazine went further, declaring on Twitter that four sources had confirmed that the person of interest was Mr Kushner, a man with a wide brief within the Trump administration.
He is known to have held a meeting with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, a month after the election, also attended by Michael Flynn, who was, briefly, the national security adviser.
Mr Kushner later met Sergei Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, a state-owned bank that was subject to American sanctions after the Russian annexation of Crimea. A White House spokeswoman has said the meeting lasted half an hour and was a routine diplomatic encounter by Mr Kushner, on behalf of a presidential transition team establishing contacts with foreign governments and officials.
Mr Kushner, who is married to the president’s daughter Ivanka, has often been cast as a cooler head in the Trump administration but was said to have been in favour of firing James Comey from his role as FBI director.
Last week, when Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general, announced that he was appointing a former FBI director named Robert Mueller to serve as a special counsel in the investigation, advisers to the president were said to have urged a calm response — while Mr Kushner urged him to fight back, according to The New York Times.
The White House is now reviewing Mr Mueller’s background, examining ethics rules that may restrict the investigation, according to Reuters. The law firm that Mr Mueller worked at represents Mr Kushner, as well as Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager. Under rules barring government lawyers from investigating recent former clients, he could technically be barred from investigating Mr Kushner.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump make their way across the South Lawn to board
Marine One at the White House in Washington DC.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/jared-kushner-named-as-person-of-interest-in-russia-probe/news-story/bd81a5a645f7138c6ad8f30fbffe5d80
"Trump Being Treated Like A Child As White House
Manages His Schedule To Keep Him Off Twitter"
[VIDEO] 1:01 Trump says no collusion with Russia, investigation a "witch hunt"
Will Pavia
The Times
3:57PM May 22, 2017
In a capital quietened by the departure of President Donald Trump to the Middle East, it has become a sort of parlour game question: was Jared Kushner the “significant person of interest” in the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the election?
The FBI investigation that began last summer is said to have reached high into the Trump administration. The Washington Post, citing an unnamed source, reported that the adviser was “someone close to the president”, and noted that three senior officials have acknowledged contacts with Russian officials: Rex Tillerson, secretary of state; Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general; and Mr Kushner, the president’s son-in-law.
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner.
New York magazine went further, declaring on Twitter that four sources had confirmed that the person of interest was Mr Kushner, a man with a wide brief within the Trump administration.
He is known to have held a meeting with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US, a month after the election, also attended by Michael Flynn, who was, briefly, the national security adviser.
Mr Kushner later met Sergei Gorkov, the chief of Vnesheconombank, a state-owned bank that was subject to American sanctions after the Russian annexation of Crimea. A White House spokeswoman has said the meeting lasted half an hour and was a routine diplomatic encounter by Mr Kushner, on behalf of a presidential transition team establishing contacts with foreign governments and officials.
Mr Kushner, who is married to the president’s daughter Ivanka, has often been cast as a cooler head in the Trump administration but was said to have been in favour of firing James Comey from his role as FBI director.
Last week, when Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney-general, announced that he was appointing a former FBI director named Robert Mueller to serve as a special counsel in the investigation, advisers to the president were said to have urged a calm response — while Mr Kushner urged him to fight back, according to The New York Times.
The White House is now reviewing Mr Mueller’s background, examining ethics rules that may restrict the investigation, according to Reuters. The law firm that Mr Mueller worked at represents Mr Kushner, as well as Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager. Under rules barring government lawyers from investigating recent former clients, he could technically be barred from investigating Mr Kushner.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump make their way across the South Lawn to board
Marine One at the White House in Washington DC.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/jared-kushner-named-as-person-of-interest-in-russia-probe/news-story/bd81a5a645f7138c6ad8f30fbffe5d80
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