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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKushner Details His Wild Idea to Use Russia's Secret Comms
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kushner-details-his-wild-idea-to-use-russias-secret-comms?ref=homeThe presidents son-in-law and top aide, Jared Kushner, suggested having Trumps future national security adviser use secure communications at the Russian embassy to communicate with Russian generals, according to newly released transcripts from the House Intelligence Committee.
The suggestion, made during a December 2016 meeting with Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, was ultimately nixed by the Russian ambassador, according to Kushner.
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Kushner Details His Wild Idea to Use Russia's Secret Comms (Original Post)
SheltieLover
May 2020
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Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)1. I feel more and more like I am eavesdropping on criminally insane people who are making confessions.
This is a huge insight into just how pure evil Trump and his family really are. And that is just the very top. His worshipers are sadistic beyond words too.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. It is so weird, isn't it?
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)3. And people wonder why Jared can't get a security clearance!
spanone
(135,635 posts)4. Why don't they just put the russian emissary right in the white house
drop all pretense
crickets
(25,896 posts)5. Sure, all the 'business guys' want a direct line to Russian generals...
Kushner claimed there was nothing nefarious about his proposal. He was merely being a business guy, he told investigators. I wasn't proposing it one way or the other. I was we were you know, what you do in meetings when you're trying to solve a problem is you brainstorm situations, so people throw out different ideas.
What a complete and utter idiot.