EXCLUSIVE. Mueller team asking if Kushner foreign business ties influenced Trump policy
Source: NBC News
MAR 2 2018, 1:54 PM ET
by CAROL E. LEE, JULIA AINSLEY and ROBERT WINDREM
WASHINGTON Federal investigators are scrutinizing whether any of Jared Kushner's business discussions with foreigners during the presidential transition later shaped White House policies in ways designed to either benefit or retaliate against those he spoke with, according to witnesses and other people familiar with the investigation.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has asked witnesses about Kushner's efforts to secure financing for his family's real estate properties, focusing specifically on his discussions during the transition with individuals from Qatar and Turkey, as well as Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates, according to witnesses who have been interviewed as part of the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to sway the 2016 election.
As part of the scrutiny of Kushner's discussions with Turks, federal investigators have reached out to Turkish nationals for information on Kushner through the FBI's legal attache office in Ankara, according to two people familiar with the matter. Separately, Qatari government officials visiting the U.S. in late January and early February considered turning over to Mueller what they believe is evidence of efforts by their country's Persian Gulf neighbors in coordination with Kushner to hurt their country, four people familiar with the matter said. The Qatari officials decided against cooperating with Mueller for now out of fear it would further strain the country's relations with the White House, these people said.
Kushner's family real estate business, Kushner Companies, approached Qatar multiple times, including last spring, about investing in the company's troubled flagship property at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York, but the government-run sovereign wealth fund declined, according to two people familiar with the discussion. Another discussion of interest to Mueller's team is a meeting Kushner held at Trump Tower during the transition in December 2016 with a former prime minister of Qatar, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, or HBJ, according to people familiar with the meeting.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/mueller-team-asking-if-kushner-foreign-business-ties-influenced-trump-n852681
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(22,665 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,840 posts)SEC Dropped Inquiry After Firm Aided Kushner Company
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(3,985 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Jared's just leverage to be exploited. At least this time it will be one of our guys exploiting Jared.
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(3,384 posts)"" The Qatari officials decided against cooperating with Mueller for now out of fear it would further strain the country's relations with the White House, these people said. """
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(17,564 posts)Mueller only asks a question when he already knows the answer.
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(2,078 posts)How involved was Kushner in that? Hayes asked Ryan Grim, the DC bureau chief for The Intercept.
He was extremely involved in the policy, Grim replied. Without Kushner, we might not have the blockade. And just so people know, this blockade is ongoing.
This cold war, very nearly became a hot war, Grim added.
There are reports that the Emirates considered invading with a mercenary force, Qatar, as this all unfolded.
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(4,370 posts)Dementia boy has a policy?
Keep the left arm straight, bend the knees..keep
your eye on the ball....We are talking golf here,
aren't we?