Published by DB, November 22nd, 2017

'Do you think they'll get the president?': Kushner is reportedly worried as the Russia investigation heats up

     
        Jared  Kushner, a senior White House adviser.        Associated Press/Pablo Martinez  Monsivais     
 
•       Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, is said to be increasingly worried about the size and scope of the Russia investigation.   
•       Kushner reportedly asked a friend whether the probe    would become big enough to "get the president."   
•       The investigation has expanded to include whether Trump    attempted to obstruct justice when he fired James Comey as FBI director and whether Trump had a role in crafting a misleading statement his son Donald Trump Jr. released about a meeting    with a Kremlin-connected lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016.   
•       Kushner is a central figure in both of those    events.   
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  Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's senior adviser and  son-in-law, is worried about the widening scope of the  investigation into Russia's  interference in the 2016 US election, Vanity Fair  reported on Tuesday.
  As part of his investigation, the special counsel Robert Mueller  is looking into  whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to  tilt the election in his favor.
  A grand jury in  October indicted Paul Manafort, the  Trump campaign chairman, and his associate Rick Gates on 12  counts — related to money laundering, financial crimes, and their  work as foreign agents — stemming from Mueller's investigation.
  Vanity Fair reported that after the indictments were unsealed,  Kushner asked a friend, "Do you think they'll get the president?"
  Mueller is also investigating whether Trump attempted to obstruct  justice when he fired James Comey as FBI director in May. At  the time, Comey was leading the bureau's Russia investigation.
  The White House initially said  Trump fired Comey because of his handling of the FBI's  investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email  server to conduct government business while she was secretary of  state. Later, however, Trump told NBC's Lester  Holt that "this Russia thing" had been a factor in his  decision.
  He also told two high-ranking  Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting that firing  Comey, whom he called a "nut job," the day before had taken  "great pressure" off of him, The New York Times reported in May.
  Mueller is also reportedly looking into the president's role in  drafting a misleading  statement his son Donald Trump Jr. issued in response to  reports in July that he met with a  Kremlin-connected lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016.
  The statement had to be amended several times after it emerged  that Trump Jr. took the meeting when the music publicist setting  it up promised him dirt on his father's Democratic challenger,  Hillary Clinton, as "part of Russia and its government's support  for Mr. Trump."
   
           
        Kushner  and President Donald Trump.        REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque     
 
  Kushner's role takes center stage
  Kushner, along with Manafort and Trump Jr., attended the Trump  Tower meeting in June 2016, and he "pushed" for Comey's firing,  The Wall Street Journal  reported.
  He was also with Trump at his golf club in Bedminster, New  Jersey, during a weekend in early May when Trump put together a  draft letter laying  out all the reasons he wanted to fire Comey. Though it was never  sent — the White House counsel Don McGahn strongly advised  against sending it — Trump fired Comey days later. The letter is  now in Mueller's  possession.
  Concerns about the Russia investigation and Kushner are not  one-sided. Citing two Republicans who spoke with Trump recently,  Vanity Fair reported that Trump was "frustrated" with Kushner's  advice, including his pushing to dismiss Comey.
  Trump has been "pressuring" Kushner and Ivanka Trump — the  president's daughter who's married to Kushner — to leave  Washington, DC, and return to New York to avoid negative news  coverage, one source close to Kushner told Vanity Fair.
  But it's unlikely he will leave the spotlight anytime soon,  particularly as he becomes an increasingly critical figure in the  Russia investigation.

www.businessinsider.com/kushner-worried-about-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-2017-11