Source: Jared Kushner to Serve as Trump Senior Adviser

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Source: NBC NEWS

President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner will be named senior adviser to the president, a senior transition official confirms to NBC News.

Kushner was an influential behind the scenes confidant to his father-in-law throughout the 2016 campaign. But a number of legal questions complicate his potential role in the incoming administration.

"Mr. Kushner is committed to complying with federal ethics laws and we have been consulting with the Office of Government Ethics regarding the steps he would take," Kushner's lawyer said in a statement to NBC News.

Kushner is married to Ivanka Trump. His new role was first reported by Axio

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/source-jared-kushner-serve-trump-senior-adviser-n704786

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Spawn.

[Angry Dragon]

1. NEPOTISM

[blueseas]

10. Nepotism - indeed

We should call our congress people.

WHO is really going to be president?

[Angry Dragon]

13. Pence and Putin

[elleng]

2. NYT telling truth, calling LIES!

Jared Kushner, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law, is to be named senior adviser to the president.

■ Mr. Trump, after an intelligence report concluded that Russia tried to help him get elected, is going after ... Meryl Streep.

■ A Trump fib: You can’t buy a dress in Washington for the inauguration.

■ The president-elect takes credit for a $1 billion Fiat-Chrysler investment in the United States. . .

The rumored post has focused attention on Mr. Kushner’s myriad potential conflicts of interest, including a Chinese development deal that’s in the works. Then there’s the issue of whether a son-in-law in the West Wing violates antinepotism laws.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html?

[LaydeeBug]

3. It's not nepotism, and Russia didn't hack the election. nt

[underpants]

5. Jared's newspaper The Observer was conduit for Russian hacked material

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028450001

[blueseas]

6. I thought *BANNON

was an advisor, how many does he need?

[Retrograde]

7. Enough so he can always find one

who tells him what he wants to hear.

[Corey_Baker08]

8. WTF Another Trump Family Member With No Government Knowledge Or Experience

Our Country Is Fucked...

[Little Tich]

9. How is this not nepotism? I don't get it. n/t

[obamanut2012]

11. It is, and is illegal, but everything they do is

[Jose Garcia]

12. Federal courts have already ruled that the 1967 anti-nepotism law doen't apply to White House Staff:

http://openjurist.org/997/f2d/898/association-v-clinton