Potential Russian asset Jared Kushner has been receiving classified intel before it gets to Donald Trump
Amid this past week’s revelations that Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is being investigated by the FBI for his role in the Russia scandal, and that he was trying to set up secret communications channels with the Russian government, a number of prominent individuals have called for his security clearance to be revoked. Now comes word of just how strange of a role Kushner has been playing when it comes to classified information.
Donald Trump doesn’t take his daily security briefings particularly seriously and he doesn’t seem to understand what’s being presented to him, according to a new Washington Post article (link). None of that comes as a surprise, considering his track record. But all the way down in the thirty-first paragraph of that article is the buried lede about Kushner.
It turns out Jared Kushner has been receiving classified intel from briefers before it gets to Donald Trump. Kushner has his daily briefings early in the morning, while Trump’s own briefings usually don’t begin until 10:30. That means that not only is Kushner being given classified secrets from the U.S. intel community and foreign allies each day, he’s being given the information before it makes its way to Trump.
In other words, when it comes to classified security briefings, Jared Kushner is being treated as the de facto President of the United States. And this is despite the fact that Kushner’s inappropriate and suspicious ties to Vladimir Putin now look like they may run even deeper than Trump’s own ties to Russia. Just what has potential Russian asset Kushner been doing with this classified intel, and why does he need it each day before Trump gets it?
