In a post-Mueller world, Jared Kushner is the "kingmaker" in Donald Trump's White House
A new report from "Vanity Fair" reveals that Kushner is allegedly running Trump's reelection campaign and the RNC
Matthew Rozsa
April 17, 2019 3:35PM (UTC)
The president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is "acting emboldened in the post-Mueller environment," where his influence has purportedly "never been stronger."
A new report from "Vanity Fair" reveals that Kushner is a "kingmaker," who is allegedly running both the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump's reelection bid:
While Trump relishes the prospect of going after his opponents, his family is acting emboldened in the post-Mueller environment. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, in particular, are taking a more aggressive approach to internal politics, sources said. “Jared is totally relieved about Mueller. He feels they’ve been completely exonerated. The criminal liability has gone away,” a source who spoke recently with Kushner told me.
A former West Wing official said Kushner’s influence has never been stronger. “He’s running the R.N.C. He’s running the campaign,” the official said. “You have to go through Jared on everything,” a Republican close to the White House said. “He’s the kingmaker.”
Kushner's growing power in the White House comes on the heels of a
memo released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month revealing he was allegedly granted access to highly-classified information even though
his security clearance had been rejected by top officials. A background investigation into Kushner "revealed significant disqualifying factors, including foreign influence, outside activities ('employment outside or businesses external to what your position at the EOP entails'), and personal conduct," according to the memo. Despite these concerns, a Trump White House official allegedly overruled the security team's concerns without noting "in the file how he had considered and mitigated concerns with each of the disqualifying factors, but he merely noted in the file that 'the activities occurred prior to federal service.'"
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