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The meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya is the first confirmed sit-down between members of Trumps inner circle and Russians during the campaign. And while the younger Trumps participation in the meeting merits immense scrutiny, the encounter raises perhaps even graver questions about Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, who also attended ― particularly given his outsized role in the White House.
On Monday night, The New York Times reported that Donald Trump Jr. knew the information he was being promised prior to the meeting was part of a Russian government effort to help his father win the 2016 election. The younger Trump says he asked Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort to join the meeting, yet claims he told them nothing of the substance about it beforehand.
It was Kushners initial failure to disclose the meeting that led the Times to report on it in the first place. Kushner had filled out a form to receive the highest level government security clearance and had later revised it to include the previously undisclosed meeting.
Its not the first time Kushner has omitted meetings with Russian officials on government forms, which is illegal. The national security form requires that applicants list any contact with a foreign government over the last seven years. Knowingly concealing or failing to disclose that information is a federal felony.
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Donald Trump Jr. can attempt to distance himself from the White House, given that he does not have a role in his fathers administration.
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But Kushner is a senior White House adviser with a security clearance that grants him access to top-secret information, raising the stakes far higher.
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Moostache
(9,895 posts)BTW Jared, how's it coming on fixing everything? What's it like to be the Shit Gibbon's very own "Not Sure"?
forgotmylogin
(7,519 posts)Although people like him don't go to real jail. They go to the artsy-craftsy Hannibal Lecter art studio jails where showers are private and there are tennis courts.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)dalton99a
(81,386 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)deserve a full measure of justice