Jared Kushner has turned over documents in recent weeks to special counsel Robert Mueller as investigators have begun asking in witness interviews about Kushner's role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, CNN has learned.
Mueller's investigators have expressed interest in Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a White House senior adviser, as part of its probe into Russian meddling, including potential obstruction of justice in Comey's firing, sources familiar with the matter said.
Their questions about Kushner signal that Mueller's investigators are reaching the President's inner circle and have extended beyond the 2016 campaign to actions taken at the White House by high-level officials. It is not clear how Kushner's advice to the President might relate to the overall Russia investigation or potential obstruction of justice.
Sources close to the White House say that based on their knowledge, Kushner is not a target of the investigation.
Kushner voluntarily turned over documents he had from the campaign and the transition, and these related to any contacts with Russia, according to a source familiar with the matter. The documents are similar to the ones Kushner gave to congressional investigators.
Of course the White House is going to say that Kushner is not a target of this investigation, just like they keep saying that there is no real evidence of collusion.
However I would suggest that with Mueller now focusing on many of those who are, or were at one time, the closest to Donald Trump, such as Kushner, his former bodyguard, and Reince Priebus, that it is only a matter of time before his sons, Ivanka, and Trump himself find themselves answering pointed questions about who knew what when.
In fact Trump seems prepared to blame everything on Kushner in order to deflect attention away from his family:
A seething President Trump is placing blame for the current state of the widening Russia investigation on his son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to a report on Wednesday.
The charges against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, which Trump himself said happened “long before” he joined the eventual GOP nominees team, should also worry, not relieve the President, according to former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg.
“Here’s what Manafort’s indictment tells me: Mueller is going to go over every financial dealing of Jared Kushner and the Trump Organization,” said former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg. “Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup. You can’t go any lower. He’s f---ed.”
“Jared is the worst political adviser in the White House in modern history,” Nunberg said.
“I’m only saying publicly what everyone says behind the scenes at Fox News, in conservative media, and the Senate and Congress.”
Even supporters of Trump have to admit by now that the noose is clearly tightening.
And if Trump actually throws Kushner, who knows where all the bodies are buried, under the bus, that will likely signal the end of the Trump presidency.
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