House Intel Committee Findings Contradict Kushner’s Testimony

[Confounding]

Thoughts?

House Intel Committee Findings Contradict Kushner’s Testimony

Jared Kushner and his attorneys likely did not enjoy something they read when the House Intelligence Committee released its findings on Russian election interference last Thursday. The report, drafted by Chairman Devin Nunes and supported by only GOP members of the Committee, has become yet another instance of a failure of bipartisan investigations on the Hill. Even one of the leading members of the Committee, Republican Trey Gowdy, acknowledged on Fox News Sunday that Americans should “not have confidence in” the report’s conclusion that there was no evidence of Trump campaign collusion and should have confidence in what Mueller’s investigation produces instead. (Gowdy recently announced his retirement from Congress citing his distaste for hyper-partisanism in his line of work.) As expected, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to tweet his chosen highlights of the Committee’s findings. There was plenty for the President to champion. Except.

When Kushner read the report’s “Finding #32” he was surely disappointed. That’s because the Committee’s stated conclusion contradicts Kushner’s written statement to Congress concerning the important June 9 meeting with Russians in Trump Tower. The Committee’s finding states that Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and Paul Manafort attended the meeting “where they expected to receive…derogatory information on candidate Clinton from Russian sources.”