Jared Kushner Adds Charles Harder to Legal Team As West Wing Pressure Mounts
Source: Vanity Fair
Jared Kushner Adds Charles Harder to Legal Team As West Wing Pressure Mounts
On Friday, Reince Priebus testified for hours with lawyers on special counsel Robert Muellers team. While Priebus has been careful not to criticize the president openly, sources who have spoken to him say hes not happy about the way he was treated by Trumpand his family. Is Kushner nervous? He has added Charles Harder to his legal team.
by Gabriel Sherman
October 17, 2017 7:49 pm
When Reince Priebus departed from the West Wing in July, after months of rumor and acrimony, he didnt let the door hit him on the way out. A president has a right to hit a reset button. I think its a good time to hit the reset button, he told CNN. Im always going to be a Trump fan.
But the graceful exit and months of public silence were very far from the end of the story. On Friday, Priebus testified for hours with lawyers on special counsel Robert Muellers team who are probing possible Russia collusion and a host of other matters, including obstruction of justice in Trumps decision to fire F.B.I. Director James Comey. While Priebus has been careful not to criticize the president openly, sources who have spoken to him say hes not happy about the way he was treated by Trump and his family. He was champing at the bit to testify, a Republican familiar with Priebuss thinking said. Priebus declined to comment to me about what he told Muellers lawyers, but his attorney, William Burck, told Politico that his client was happy to answer all of their questions.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the person in Trumps orbit who may have the most to be worried about in Priebuss testimony is Jared Kushner. Priebus has knowledge of Kushners proximity to the controversial decision to fire Comey during a weekend at Trumps golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, in early May, which, hypothetically, is the lynchpin of an obstruction case against the president and his advisers. Trump was accompanied for the weekend by Kushner, Ivanka Trump, and Stephen Miller. At the club, Miller drafted an angry letter to Comey justifying his removal. (White House counsel Don McGahn reportedly told Trump to revise the letter, which people who viewed it likened to a screed.) The following Monday, after returning to Washington, Trump told other advisers, including Priebus, of the decision to oust Comey during an Oval Office meeting.
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Kushners legal team has said that their client complied with federal ethics laws when he met with investors. Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, agrees. At the time that Kushner had them, he was not an official, Painter told me. But Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and chair of the government watchdog group CREW, says Kushners real-estate meetings with foreign investors are problematic. They raise issues under the transitions own ethics code, Eisen told me in an e-mail. We have a very senior White House adviser whose family is facing an enormous looming liability on 666 Fifth. While he may have divested his personal interest, his family members are at risk, and you cant divest your gene pool. The situation has given and continues to give him and his family . . . an enormous possible incentive to curry favor with potential investors.
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keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)Words to live by...you little shithead!
lastlib
(23,152 posts)I f*cking LOVE songbirds!!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and then you have Penis Pence
and Penis Head Scott of Florida
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)"screed" by legal counsel for being just a huge bunch of blathering word salad! LOL...
Tr*mp didn't have the nation's backing going into the office, nor did he have expertise in top positions either - and nothing screamed laughable as the cast of advisors he surrounded himself with. I hope the impeachment process removes the entire Admin from their position and a new election is demanded by the entire Democratic Party and Independents...
CountAllVotes
(20,866 posts)Don't you love the way the words come out of his rectangular shaped mouth. That is the mouth of a LIAR!
Imprison this little creep while the chance is still around to do so!