Jared Kushner shared emails within Donald Trump’s team about WikiLeaks and a “backdoor overture” from Russia during the 2016 election campaign and failed to turn them over to investigators, it emerged on Thursday. Donald Trump Jr communicated with WikiLeaks during final stages of election Read more“Other parties have produced September 2016 email communications to Mr Kushner concerning WikiLeaks, which Mr Kushner then forwarded to another campaign official,” said senators Charles Grassley and Dianne Feinstein. This week, the Atlantic reported that Kushner and several other senior Trump campaign officials were emailed by Donald Trump Jr about WikiLeaks after the group made contact with him over Twitter. Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, also attended a meeting with several Russians at Trump Tower in June last year. They also complained that they had not received a transcript of Kushner’s interview in July with the Senate intelligence committee.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2017 20:44 UTC