White House officials have asked President Trump's son-in-law and top aide Jared Kushner to "lay low", following news that a federal probe into Russian interference in the 2016 race had zeroed in on him, NBC News reported Monday.
"Many of the leaks coming out of the White House are fabricated lies made up by the #FakeNews media", he said.
President Trump's son-in-law and White House senior adviser, Jared Kushner, reportedly held meetings during the presidential transition to set up...
According to an AFP report, senior Trump administration officials have defended Kushner's actions by saying that it is normal to establish back channel ties with a foreign government.
Trump also leaned on two administration officials with military experience to defend Kushner, who has become a significant person of interest in the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Moscow in its efforts to sway the presidential election toward Trump. Graham said. "I mean, it makes no sense that the Russian ambassador would report back to Moscow on an open channel that he most likely knows we're monitoring".
In mid-December, Kushner met with Russian banker, Sergey Gorkov, who is an associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Any way that you can communicate with people, particularly organizations that are maybe not particularly friendly to us, is a good thing", he said. The FBI is now investigating links between Russian Federation and Trump's transition team, and Democrats say the Kushner reports implicate one of Trump's closest advisers.
National security adviser H.R. McMaster said in a press conference Saturday that the USA has backchannels with several countries, suggesting that the matter shouldn't be cause for concern. They would have allegedly used Russian diplomatic facilities in order to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from being monitored.
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Contacts between Trump associates and Russian officials during the campaign coincided with what U.S. intelligence agencies concluded was a Kremlin effort through computer hacking, fake news and propaganda to boost Trump's chances of winning the White House.
"Back channels like this are the regular course of business".
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly agreed.
NPR's David Folkenflik reached out to Fox News, who told him that Catherine Herridge was the lead reporter on the story.
The Senate intelligence committee, which is investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 USA presidential election, has requested information and documents from Trump's campaign dating back to July 2015, the AP and other news outlets confirmed. "So generally speaking, about back-channel communications, what that allows you to do is communicate in a discreet manner".
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker (R-TN) cautioned against "hyperbole" in discussing Kushner's conversations with Kislyak.
Count me as skeptical that Kushner is going anywhere - if for no other reason than Donald Trump listens to Ivanka Trump more than he listens to anyone else in the world.
The US leader visited Arlington National Cemetery to mark Memorial Day, a day of remembrance for the nation's war dead, but had to quickly pivot his attention to the Russian Federation scandal after returning to Washington late Saturday from his first global trip since taking office. "They are in to do us in".
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