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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

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I see how donalds visit with the Pope went, Omg ...

I love the Holy Father for not being deceitful in this moment!

OPEN THIS LINK! Priceless!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-crazy-europe_us_59251b56e4b0ec129d308609?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016§ion=politics



I know I'm no holy woman .. but god, I couldn't minister to them either! .. tell em to go down the mountain! ... ;)

[StephanieVanbryce]

Advertisers Pull Ads From Sean Hannity’s Fox News Show

And so it begins...

By Lydia O’Connor
05/24/2017 03:28 pm ET | Updated 29 minutes ago

Go Watch the VIDEO! [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hannity-advertiser-boycott_us_5925d4b0e4b062f96a3369d6?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 ]

Companies started pulling advertisements from Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Wednesday as he continued promoting a conspiracy theory about Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich’s death.

Cars.com, the automotive classifieds site, was the first to release a statement on its decision to remove ads.

“The fact that we advertise on a particular program doesn’t mean that we agree or disagree, or support or oppose, the content. We don’t have the ability to influence content at the time we make out advertising purchase. In this case, we’ve been watching closely and have recently made the decision to pull our advertising from Hannity.”

At-home exercise company Peloton followed suit later Wednesday afternoon, saying it decided to pull advertisements from “Hannity” in response to complaints on Twitter.

@_elissa_johnson @naretevduorp @seanhannity @FoxNews We directed our media agency to stop advertising on Sean Hannity’s show. This will take a few days to take effect.
— Peloton (@RidePeloton) May 24, 2017

Leesa Sleep, an online mattress retailer, became the third advertiser to drop out.

“We adjust our media buying every day and we can confirm that we are no longer advertising on Sean Hannity,” a spokesman said.

Casper, another online mattress retailer, also confirmed it was shifting its Fox News ad buys.

Hannity has been in hot water for continuing to peddle a conspiracy theory linking Rich’s unsolved killing to WikiLeaks. Washington, D.C., police say they they suspect Rich was shot during a robbery attempt while walking in his neighborhood. There’s no evidence his slaying has anything to do with leaked DNC emails published by WikiLeaks, which U.S. authorities have blamed on Russian hackers.

Fox News retracted its thinly sourced story promoting the conspiracy theory on Tuesday and removed it from its website. But Hannity was still pushing the story on Twitter shortly before the network issued its statement. He later continued promoting the conspiracy on his radio show, which is not affiliated with Fox News, hours later.

“And all you in the liberal media, I am not Fox.com or Fox News.com. I retracted nothing,” he said.

The move by Cars.com and Peloton to pull advertising mimics the start of a massive advertiser boycott that plagued Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, who was unceremoniously ousted from the network last month after after allegations of him sexually harassing female colleagues prompted protests and eventually led more than 50 companies to remove advertising from his show.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hannity-advertiser-boycott_us_5925d4b0e4b062f96a3369d6?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

when good people stand up. . .