Kushner failed to disclose outreach from banker "accused of links to Russian organized crime"

[Miles Archer]

Kushner failed to disclose outreach from Putin ally to Trump campaign

WASHINGTON — President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, failed to disclose what lawmakers called a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite" involving a banker who has been accused of links to Russian organized crime, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

An email chain described Aleksander Torshin, a former senator and deputy head of Russia's central bank who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as wanting Trump to attend an event on the sidelines of a National Rifle Association convention in Louisville, Kentucky, in May 2016, the sources said. The email also suggests Torshin was seeking to meet with a high-level Trump campaign official during the convention, and that he may have had a message for Trump from Putin, the sources said.

Kushner rebuffed the request after receiving a lengthy email exchange about it between a West Virginia man and Trump campaign aide Rick Dearborn, the sources said.

Kushner also responded to the email by telling Dearborn and the handful of other Trump campaign officials on the email that they should not accept requests from people who pretend to have contacts with foreign officials to aggrandize themselves, according to one person familiar with the email. Dearborn currently serves as a deputy chief of staff in the White House.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kushner-failed-disclose-outreach-putin-ally-trump-campaign-n822021

[Kirk Lover]

1. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH from this guy...why is still he walking around and why the fuck

does he still have security clearance. He needs to be dispatched from the White Trash House at once.

[MelissaB]

2. And he lied under oath.

In last graf, NBC confirms @JennaMC_Laugh scoop from earlier: "Kushner denied, under oath, that he was familiar with any attempts by WikiLeaks to contact the campaign."

Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

4. How do you spell felony again?

[JDC]

3. Of course he did. He is a criminal.

[Tactical Peek]

5. Lock him up.

After a fair trial, of course.

[wishstar]

6. The article says that Kushner rebuffed the offer, but Don Jr did sit next to Torshin at NRA dinner

"While Kushner told Dearborn and other campaign officials on the email not to accept Torshin's offer, Torshin was seated with the candidate's son, Donald Trump Jr., during a private dinner on the sidelines of an NRA event during the convention in Louisville, according to an account Torshin gave to Bloomberg. Congressional investigators have no clear explanation for how that came to be, according to sources familiar with the matter."

So once again Don Jr seemed to be eager to make connections with Putin's puppets, even when Kushner allegedly advised against this particular meeting.

[Nevernose]

7. Or they do exactly what I do in work emails

Only write down what I wouldn’t mind seeing admitted as evidence, and communicate a more direct truth in person.

I’m not that slimy, though. That family, however, is almost incomprehensible dirty.

My lack of integrity is stuff like, “I know the kid I emailed you about broke a lot of school rules and maybe even a few laws, but please go easy on her because her brother was murdered last month and she’s been a total fucking wreck ever since.”

Certainly not “Ignore everything I put in writing. I need you to go commit some felonies for me. The usual: espionage, a little light treason. That kind of stuff. Hey, Don, wait one more second! I never asked, but do you speak Russian?”

[D_Master81]

8. FFS!

How is this guy not in jail by now? This has to be the 3rd or 4th time I've heard "failed to disclose" linked to Kushner

[Hekate]

9. What a fool. I hope the Law is sweating him good...

That whole family is pretty sure the law does not apply to them. I hope Mueller proves every single one of them wrong.