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Special Counsel Mueller Probes Jared Kushners Contact With Foreign Leaders
Investigators look into Trump senior advisers role in talks about U.N.s resolution condemning Israel
WASHINGTON Robert Muellers investigators are asking questions about Jared Kushners interactions with foreign leaders during the presidential transition, including his involvement in a dispute at the United Nations in December, in a sign of the expansive nature of the special counsels probe of Russias meddling in the election, according to people familiar with the matter.
The investigators have asked witnesses questions about the involvement of Mr. Kushner, President Donald Trumps son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, in a controversy over a U.N. resolution passed Dec. 23 that condemned Israels construction of settlements in disputed territories, these people said.
Israeli officials had asked the incoming Trump administration to intervene to help block it. Mr. Trump posted a Facebook message the day before the U.N. voteafter he had been elected but before he had assumed officesaying the resolution put the Israelis in a difficult position and should be vetoed. Mr. Trump also held a phone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, whose government had written a draft of the resolution. Egypt proceeded to call for the vote to be delayed, but the resolution passed the following day, with the Obama administration declining to block it.
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