Rachel Maddow brought up the fact Jared Kushner was mixing policy and personal business in what was a serious breach of national security.
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Maddow said, “According to current and former officials briefed about Chinese communications, Chinese officials said that in meetings to prepare for the Chinese president summit at Mar-a-Lago, the Chinese ambassador and Jared Kushner discussed the business interests along with U.S. Government policy. If Jared Kushner is bringing up his own personal business interest alongside, that’s a serious national security breach that was the first time we learned Jared Kushner was given access to the presidents’ daily brief every day. Frankly strange about that revelation. Jared Kushner was given access despite the fact he doesn’t have a full security clearance or hasn’t been able to get one for the year he’s been in the white house so that new Yorker report was last month. Since then, as you know, the whole issue of security clearances has blown up into a full-scale disaster for the Trump White House.”
Rachel Maddow nailed the heart of the problem. If Jared Kushner was holding “off the books” meetings with foreign governments, and mixing his private affairs with government business, he breached national security. Kushner also turned himself into an easy target for blackmail. It is clear now why Kushner was so desperate to hold on to his top-secret national security clearance. Kushner needed the clearance to get access to the information that would get him in the door with foreign leaders so that he could use his position to help his private business.
Kushner is deep in debt, and it was already widely speculated that he was abusing his position in the government for personal financial gain. Rachel Maddow just took the Kushner national security breach and made it Trump’s biggest problem.
The corruption runs deep in this administration, and now we have proof that the President’s son-in-law breached national security. You can almost hear the chants of lock him up ringing across our great land.
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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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