Democrats clamor for Jared Kushner's security clearance to be revoked

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian


Ethics experts describe omission of meeting with Donald Trump Jr and Russia lawyer as ‘consciousness of guilt’ and say it warrants re-evaluation of clearance

David Smith, Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington and Amanda Holpuch in New York
Wednesday 12 July 2017 16.16 EDT


Jared Kushner’s White House security clearance should be “re-evaluated” after the revelation that he attended a now notorious meeting with Donald Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer, according to a former White House ethics tsar.

Democratic senators were still more forceful on Wednesday, one saying of Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser: “I don’t know why he still has a job.”

Kushner is facing growing pressure over his presence at the June 2016 meeting, which email correspondence published by Trump Jr said was intended as part of a Russian government effort to damage Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.

Kushner was required to disclose all meetings with foreign government officials over the past seven years when he applied for security clearance for his White House role. He initially failed to mention the Trump Jr meeting, then included it on a supplemental form.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/12/jared-kushner-security-clearance-russia-meeting-donald-trump-jr

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Don't you just love these retroactive disclosures? Not good enough!!

But these people are used to NO consequences for their actions due to loads of money or protection from those with it. And, so far, there have been very few consequences for all of their atrocious behavior around the election and after. I keep thinking I'm going to makeup from this nightmare. How can this be happening in our country in 2017!!??

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

It should have been pulled already.

[UCmeNdc]

3. It should be pulled

The man is a massive security risk!

[Hieronymus]

4. Definitely no security clearance for Jared.

He's as big a liar as the blood relatives of Trump.

[IronLionZion]

5. It should be revoked for all the Trumps

since they are under investigation for colluding with the enemy

[Honeycombe8]

6. Of course it should be. Who would question that? nt

[maxsolomon]

7. nothing will happen

nothing will happen to any of them. trump will pardon them if it comes to that.

[Kaleva]

10. Accepting a pardon would be an admission of guilt

Trump would be telling the world that members of his campaign did in fact collude with the Russians.

[jmowreader]

8. Ivanka's too, and her dad's

If I had a father/daughter/SIL family who was all cleared and one of them turned out to be a spy, the odds the other two are also involved are high enough we couldn't take the chance of leaving them with access. Especially since the odds of at least one of them here being compromised are extremely high.

[flibbitygiblets]

9. About Damn Time! Dems are so fricking timid, finally they smell the blood in the water

R's would have been clamoring back in the quaint old days of "backdoor channel with the Russians at their embassy".

[NurseJackie]

11. "Consciousness of Guilt" ... Law and Legal Definition.

Consciousness of Guilt Law and Legal Definition.

Evidentiary rules allow a prosecutor to introduce testimony that tends to show that the defendants actions prove he knew he was guilty (at least of something). This is sometimes referred to as “consciousness of guilt”.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/c/consciousness-of-guilt/

[riversedge]

12. Why aren't Republicans clammering also??