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<blockquote data-quote="SueEllenRules!" data-source="post: 52487" data-attributes="member: 87"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Trump’s Son-In-Law Jared Kushner To Face Questions On Russia Ties</strong></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 15px">Kushner, a senior adviser to Trump, met with Russian officials at least twice.</span></em></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">The Senate Intelligence Committee intends to question President </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">Donald Trump</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px">’s son-in-law </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/jared-kushner" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">Jared Kushner</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px"> about his contact with Russian officials, </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/politics/senate-jared-kushner-russia.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">The New York Times reported early Monday</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px">.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, would be the most prominent and highest-ranking White House official to face interrogation as part of the Senate committee’s probe into the Trump administration’s ties to Russia. Early this year, intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government had </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/intelligence-report-russia-hack-election_us_586fed0fe4b02b5f8588b94a" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">interfered in the U.S. election</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px"> to help Trump win.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">White House and congressional officials confirmed to the Times that the committee hopes to question Kushner over his scheduled meetings with Russian officials, including Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">It was previously reported that Kushner met with Kislyak at Trump Tower in December, along with former national security adviser Michael Flynn. But the White House confirmed that there was an additional meeting scheduled between Kushner and Kislyak to which Kushner sent an associate in his place.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">Kushner also met with the head of a state-owned Russian bank. The Obama administration had imposed sanctions on the bank following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Both meetings took place during Trump’s presidential transition in December.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">The Kremlin downplayed the Vnesheconombank bank meeting.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">“Tens of meetings were held and one of these meetings was with Kushner’s company and with him,” a Kremlin spokesman said, </span><a href="http://news.trust.org/item/20170328100659-x4jbl" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">according to Reuters.</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px"> “It is routine business.”</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, has taken on a prominent role in the White House as a foreign policy adviser to Trump. On Sunday, The Washington Post reported that he will also </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-taps-kushner-to-lead-a-swat-team-to-fix-government-with-business-ideas/2017/03/26/9714a8b6-1254-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_whstrategy-10pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.616f13782a14" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">lead a newly created White House office that reports directly to Trump</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px">, the Office of American Innovation, which will focus on policy ideas and strategy.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">White House spokeswoman Hope Hicks claimed that Kushner’s meetings with Russian officials were routine, as part of his role as a top adviser to Trump.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer confirmed that Kushner “volunteered to meet with” the Senate Intelligence Committee and defended Kushner’s meetings.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 15px">“He met with countless individuals. That was part of his job,” Spicer told reporters at the White House press briefing.</span></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58d8fa89e4b03787d35a3419?utm_hp_ref=jared-kushner" target="_blank">http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58d8fa89e4b03787d35a3419?utm_hp_ref=jared-kushner</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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