Jared Kushner is at the center of Robert Mueller’s secret Trump-Russia emails
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has secretly had all of the Trump transition team’s emails all along, and it spells bad news for a whole lot of people in Donald Trump’s orbit. Reuters is reporting that Mueller has been targeting at least nine transition team members, without naming any names. Axios, however, is naming just one name when it comes to the emails in question: Jared Kushner. This looks to be even worse for him than you might think.
Here’s how Axios characterized the revelation: “Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained “many tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails, including emails of Jared Kushner” (link). It then goes on to explain that Mueller has obtained emails that include “sensitive exchanges.” So what precisely does he have? We don’t know yet, but Kushner sure does. That leads to a rather obvious question. When Kushner recently began looking to hire a crisis management public relations firm, was it because he knows what’s coming?
Here’s how Congressman Ted Lieu initially characterized the news about Kushner trying to hiring a crisis firm: “The only reason Jared Kushner would hire a crisis public relations firm is because … wait for it … A CRISIS IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO HIM. Also, anyone who needs a crisis firm should not have a security clearance. Oh, and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, you backed the wrong person.” After the other shoe dropped, Lieu piled on: “I wonder if Jared Kushner looking to hire a crisis public relations firm is related to him finding out Mueller has all his .gov emails? Also, why does Kushner still have a security clearance?”
When Robert Mueller gave Michael Flynn a lenient plea deal two weeks ago, it could only have been because Flynn provided strong evidence against one or more bigger fish in the Trump-Russia scandal. There are only a very small handful of bigger fish than Flynn: Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, and Jared Kushner. Is Kushner panicking because of what Flynn knows about him, or because of what’s in those emails, or both?
