Is Jared using the White House as his personal boardroom?
By Aaron Blake 2 hrs ago
... Kushner's legal team says he played no role in securing the loans. The lenders say standard processes were followed, with Citigroup emphasizing that a relationship existed before Kushner joined the White House. And the Kushner Companies suggested the Times was struggling to connect dots. "Stories like these attempt to make insinuating connections that do not exist to disparage the financial institutions and companies involved," a spokeswoman said.
But why even take part in the meetings? Why open yourself up to even suspicions of self-dealing when it involves a lender that does business with your family company?
Harris was advising the White House on infrastructure policy, to be sure, but the fact that he and Kushner went so far as to discuss a White House job for Harris suggests they didn't just happen to be in the same room. And then it's Harris's company that happens to give the Kushners a big loan ...
... during the transition period Kushner attempted to set up a secret communications channel with the Kremlin, according to intercepts of the Russian ambassador. And he met during that same period with a Russian banker tied to the Kremlin, without disclosing the meeting ...
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