GOP Senator: Kushner's Meeting With Russian Lawyer Was 'Known' In April
By ESME CRIBB Published JULY 12, 2017 6:43 PM
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Wednesday said federal entities knew about Jared Kushner’s attendance of a June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer as early as April.
“This meeting was known because it was turned in in the background checks in April, actually, for Jared Kushner,” Lankford said on CNN. “So it was a known meeting at that point. Getting the emails and getting the details of that meeting was not known.”
A spokesperson for Lankford told TPM that the senator was referring to the FBI and executive branch entities that processed Kushner’s security clearance, not the Senate Intelligence Committee.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday told Reuters he “didn’t know” about his eldest son Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya “until a couple of days ago.”
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