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Let's all have a refreshing champagne popsicle to celebrate Jared's self-proclaimed innocence!
Jared Kushner issues 11-page statement insisting he tried to bail on meeting with Don Jr and Russian lawyer
Jared Kushner released a lengthy statement Monday morning detailing his contacts with foreign agents and officials during the presidential campaign, hours before he’s scheduled to face Senate investigators in a closed-door hearing.
The president’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser gave his first public account of four interactions with Russians — two meetings with the Russian ambassador in Washington, one meeting with the head of a Russian state-owned bank and the June 2016 meeting between a Kremlin-linked lawyer and others set up by Donald Trump Jr. — during the 2016 campaign and transition.
“I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government,” Kushner said in the 11-page statement. “I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on Russian funds to finance my business activities in the private sector. I have tried to be fully transparent with regard to the filing of my SF-86 form, above and beyond what is required. Hopefully, this puts these matters to rest.”
Kushner disputed a Reuters report describing two phone calls between April and November 2016 with ambassador Sergey Kislyak, saying he did not remember the calls and claiming a review of his land line and cell phone records finds no evidence of the calls.
Jared Kushner released a lengthy statement Monday morning detailing his contacts with foreign agents and officials during the presidential campaign, hours before he’s scheduled to face Senate investigators in a closed-door hearing.
The president’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser gave his first public account of four interactions with Russians — two meetings with the Russian ambassador in Washington, one meeting with the head of a Russian state-owned bank and the June 2016 meeting between a Kremlin-linked lawyer and others set up by Donald Trump Jr. — during the 2016 campaign and transition.
“I did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the campaign who colluded, with any foreign government,” Kushner said in the 11-page statement. “I had no improper contacts. I have not relied on Russian funds to finance my business activities in the private sector. I have tried to be fully transparent with regard to the filing of my SF-86 form, above and beyond what is required. Hopefully, this puts these matters to rest.”
Kushner disputed a Reuters report describing two phone calls between April and November 2016 with ambassador Sergey Kislyak, saying he did not remember the calls and claiming a review of his land line and cell phone records finds no evidence of the calls.
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