President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, forwarded emails about a “Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite” to Trump campaign officials and failed to produce those emails to the Senate Judiciary Committee, two senators on the committee said in a letter to Kushner’s lawyer on Thursday.
Kushner also failed to produce emails he was copied on involving communication with the anti-secrecy agency WikiLeaks and with a Belarusian-American businessman named Sergei Millian, the senators said. Millian most recently headed a group called the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.
“There are several documents that are known to exist but were not included in your production,” Sens. Chuck Grassley, the committee’s chairman, and Dianne Feinstein, its ranking member, wrote to Kushner.
They continued:
“For example, other parties have produced September 2016 email communications to Mr. Kushner concerning WikiLeaks, which Mr. Kushner then forwarded to another campaign official. Such documents should have been produced in response to the third request but were not.
“Likewise, other parties have produced documents concerning a ‘Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite’ which Mr. Kushner also forwarded. And still others have produced communications with Sergei Millian, copied to Mr. Kushner.
“Again, these do not appear in Mr. Kushner’s production despite being responsive to the second request.”
Kushner came under new scrutiny this week after The Atlantic reported that his brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr. told him in an email in September 2016 that WikiLeaks had sent him a private message on Twitter. The report said Kushner forwarded that information to Hope Hicks, at the time a campaign communications staffer.
The “Russian backdoor overture” could be a reference to Kushner’s meeting in December with Sergey Kislyak, then Russia’s ambassador to the US, that was also attended by Michael Flynn, the incoming national security adviser. The senators said on Thursday that Kushner had not provided all the information it requested related to his communications with Flynn.
The Washington Post reported earlier this year that at that meeting, Kushner had suggested setting up a back-channel line of communication between the Trump transition team and Moscow using Russian diplomatic facilities in the US.
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Yesterday we learned the Senate sent Kushner a more damning letter. Read closely: note how many distinct people & documents are involved. (h/t @NatashaBertrand) https://t.co/i4QOWSp5Li pic.twitter.com/McCF24WAel
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) November 17, 2017
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