What's Jared Kushner doing during the Cohen testimony? Meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince.
From the Independent UK
Jared Kushner quietly met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman during a foreign trip featuring meetings with top Middle East officials that is sure to raise controversy in the United States.
The White House released a readout of the previously non-disclosed meeting between the Crown Prince and Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser just minutes after the president’s former attorney and “fixer” began a highly-anticipated public testimony before the House Oversight Committee.
News outlets across the country were covering the developments on Capitol Hill in real-time as one of Mr Trump’s closest former confidants detailed his alleged criminal conduct, racism and lies from the 2016 presidential election and after assuming the Oval Office.
Mr Kushner was meeting with the 33-year-old Saudi Arabian leader for the first time since the Crown Prince was alleged by the international community and global intelligence experts to have ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist killed inside a Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Mr Khashoggi was a notable journalist who frequently wrote reports critical of the Saudi government.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jared-kushner-saudi-mohammed-bin-salman-cohen-testimony-trump-jamal-khashoggi-a8800441.html
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