Jared Kushner tried to cover up communications during the election with suspected Russian mobster
After it was revealed this week that Jared Kushner lied about knowing of Donald Trump Jr’s communications with WikiLeaks during the election, and that he’s been trying to cover up his own secret Russian dinner invite during the election, it looked like things couldn’t get any worse for Kushner. Then came the inevitable Friday evening news cycle, which revealed that yes, things could get even worse for Kushner. Much worse.
It now turns out that Russian dinner invite came from a suspected Russian mobster named Aleksander Torshin, according to an NBC News report (link). Kushner did apparently end up turning down the dinner invite – but he went on to fail to disclose the incident, and it’s possible he committed a crime in the process.
Remarkably, after Donald Trump took office, he was scheduled to meet with this same suspected Russian mobster, and only canceled the meeting after it became public knowledge (link). This raises the question of what other, if any, contacts and communications the Trump regime had with Torshin in between the Kushner invite and the aborted Trump meeting.
Jared Kushner is already facing potential legal trouble for having lied on his White House security clearance forms about his secret meetings with Russian government representatives during the election, and with the Russian Ambassador and the head of a Russian bank during the transition period. The form in question states that lying on it is a felony.
