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applegrove

(118,025 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 08:44 PM May 2017

Jared Kushner wanted to use Russian embassy to make secure phone calls to Kremlin

by Keith A. Spencer at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/26/jared-kushner-wanted-to-use-russian-embassy-to-make-secure-phone-calls-to-kremlin/

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After it was revealed yesterday that the presidential son-in-law was being targeted by the FBI as a “person of interest” in the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the Washington Post dropped another shocking revelation today in a report stating that Kushner asked Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak if they might set up a “secure communications channel” in a “Russian diplomatic facility,” which would allow the Trump team to have an open and private channel to the Kremlin.

Former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, who resigned in disgrace from Trump’s cabinet within 30 days of Trump’s inauguration, was also in attendance at the early December meeting with Kislyak in Trump Tower. It was at this meeting in early December that Kushner floated the idea to Kislyak, reported the Post.

Kislyak was “taken aback by the suggestion of allowing an American to use Russian communications gear at its embassy or consulate — a proposal that would have carried security risks for Moscow as well as the Trump team,” according to the Post.

It is unclear why Kushner and Trump’s team so direly needed a secret communications channel to the Kremlin, though given the near-daily attempts by Trump confidants to obscure or downplay their Russian connections, the answer may be unsavory. It was also inept of Kushner to believe that could walk into the Russian embassy and make a secret phone call; as the Post noted, “the FBI closely monitors the communications of Russian officials in the United States, and maintains near-constant surveillance of its diplomatic facilities. The National Security Agency monitors the communications of Russian officials overseas.”


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Jared Kushner wanted to use Russian embassy to make secure phone calls to Kremlin (Original Post) applegrove May 2017 OP
KGOP traitors suck Achilleaze May 2017 #1
Jail cell waiting. Cattledog May 2017 #2
Of all the things being revealed JNelson6563 May 2017 #3
Malice and incompetence. It's always both. We dont have to choose. sharedvalues May 2017 #7
Drip. Drip. Drip. TheOther95Percent May 2017 #4
What an idiot! A treasonsous, greedy, vile idiot. writes3000 May 2017 #5
Nobody has asked yet superpatriotman May 2017 #6
When the greed gene Corgigal May 2017 #8

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
3. Of all the things being revealed
Fri May 26, 2017, 09:03 PM
May 2017

I have to say I am most struck by the depths of cluelessness of Team Trump. It just didn't occur to them that US Intelligence kept an eye on things like the Russian embassy.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
8. When the greed gene
Sat May 27, 2017, 12:37 AM
May 2017

activates, I guess it makes you dumb as a bag of rocks.

To think they believed they would get away with this. Lord, idiots. Get some fear in your body, it helps you make smart decisions. It protects you.

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