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jpak

(41,755 posts)
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 07:22 PM Jul 2017

Jared Kushner Is Lying About Russia Meetings and Contacts, Ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Says

http://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-lying-russia-641720

Jared Kushner’s explanations for his contacts with Russians during last year’s election sound like lies, according to a former assistant special prosecutor who worked on Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and investigation.

Jill Wine-Banks, who has been highly critical of President Donald Trump and his administration while claiming impeachment is around the corner, stated Monday during an interview on MSNBC’s The Last Word that the 11-page statement by Kushner, the White House senior adviser and the president’s son-in-law, along with his reasons behind meetings with Russians, are “blatantly ridiculous.”

“First I want to say it was a very smoothly written document,” Wine-Banks said. “He clearly has a very good lawyer. But as soon as you start to probe it, it falls apart. The explanations that are offered seem blatantly ridiculous. The explanation for the back channel is not credible to me, the explanation for forgetting over 100 foreign contacts isn’t believable.”

In the statement issued just before his closed testimony before the Senate intelligence committee Monday, Kushner admitted to contact with four Russians, including ambassador Sergei Kislyak, but did not name the other three.

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Jared Kushner Is Lying About Russia Meetings and Contacts, Ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Says (Original Post) jpak Jul 2017 OP
Yep...There is no way to accidently hit "Submit" button on your SF-86 form HipChick Jul 2017 #1
I think, Jared threw Paul Manafort, right under the bus, direct hit, subpoenas issued MiddleClass Jul 2017 #2

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
1. Yep...There is no way to accidently hit "Submit" button on your SF-86 form
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 07:25 PM
Jul 2017

EQIP, requires you verify several times before you can..

MiddleClass

(888 posts)
2. I think, Jared threw Paul Manafort, right under the bus, direct hit, subpoenas issued
Tue Jul 25, 2017, 07:32 PM
Jul 2017

The next day subpoena was issued by judiciary committee for Paul Manafort

why the urgency after 7 months?

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