Jared Kushner meets with the Congress in the Russia collusion scandal

  Without question the big news of the day is Jared Kushner’s meeting with the Congress over the Russia collusion scandal. He flatly denied any collusion by him or any other member of the Trump campaign. From what I understand Mr. Kushner was not under oath but it is still a crime to lie or mislead the Congress.

  As we all know, Jared Kushner failed to disclose his meeting with the Russian ambassador, and it turns out many other meetings with foreign officials, before he was given his security clearance. He is now blaming this on an aide who he claims prematurely sent in his disclosure form. Here is more:

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner is putting blame on an assistant for issues with his security clearance form, saying there was a miscommunication when it was originally submitted.

The form initially did not list any contacts with foreign government officials, he said.

Kushner said in the week before inauguration that people at his New York office were helping him find information for his security and financial disclosure forms.

“They sent an email to my assistant in Washington, communicating that the changes to one particular section were complete; my assistant interpreted that message as meaning that the entire form was completed,” he said in the statement.

“At that point, the form was a rough draft and still had many omissions including not listing any foreign government contacts and even omitted the address of my father-in-law (which was obviously well known).”

  He claims he contacted the FBI as soon as he found out about the error and has since amended his disclosure form. As most of you probably know I am not a fan of Jared Kushner and I have trouble with this story.

  Although I do find it hard to believe Mr. Kushner could have possibly thought he could get away with purposely not disclosing meeting with foreign officials it still leads me to believe he and his aide exhibited gross incompetence at best. At worst this was a delaying tactic: I do not believe he was colluding with Russia however maybe he wanted to hide these contacts in the interest of expediting his security clearance.

  Personally I have no confidence in Jared Kushner and he has become a liability to the President.

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