The FBI Turns Its Attention to Jared Kushner
The president’s son-in-law and senior advisor is reportedly being investigated over his contact with Russians.
Last week marked a a new high in Jared Kushner’s brief political career. President Trump’s tour of Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican, which Kushner had arranged and planned, went off without a major hitch. This week portends to be a more trying one for Kushner, as he returns to Washington to be greeted by the news that he is now a focus of the FBI’s Russia investigation.
On Thursday, and that investigators are looking into meetings Kushner held in December with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the U.S., and Sergey Gorkov, the head of Vnesheconombank (VEB), a state-owned Russian bank that previously with Trump’s former business partner. An array of other outlets quickly confirmed those reports.
