Jared Kushner’s lawyer was fooled by a prankster pretending to be Kushner into providing insight into how his attorneys are handling the email scandal.
Business Insider reported, “Top Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell engaged in an email exchange with a prankster posing as client Jared Kushner on Monday, at one point telling the prankster that he needed “to see all emails” sent and received from a private email account the president’s son-in-law had set up in December. The exchange, which the prankster provided to Business Insider, came as Kushner was dealing with his own minor email scandal and offers a window into how his team is responding in its initial stages.”
Kushner’s lawyers haven’t seen all the emails that Trump’s son in law sent containing official government business on a private email account. To put it mildly, this is a problem, but it has also become a consistent theme of the Russia scandal. The Trumps appear to be withholding information from their own legal representation.
The lawyers working for both Kushner and Trump have been blindsided by developments that find their way into the press that the attorneys did not have prior knowledge of. An attorney shouldn’t be so easily fooled by a prankster. One would think that Lowell would have taken a moment to verify that it was actually his client sending the emails, or that the email address matched one that his client uses.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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