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Trump’s son in-law set for questioning over Russia ties

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Trump's son in-law set for questioning over Russia ties

One of President Donald Trump‘s son in-laws and his most senior advisers Jared Kushner will be questioned over his ties with Russia, White House sources have confirmed.

Jared who reportedly met with Russian ambassador and executives of Russian state development bank during 2016 election campaign will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters that Kushner who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump is willing to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee chaired by Republican Senator Richard Burr.

“Throughout the campaign and the transition, Jared served as the official primary point of contact with foreign governments and officials … and so, given this role, he volunteered to speak with Chairman Burr’s committee,” Spicer told reporters.

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Explaining the importance of thoroughly probing the mounting allegations of collusion between Trump’s team and Russia, John Neffinger, the communications director of the Democratic National Committee, said; “We have no proof yet,” he told Al Jazeera. “We do know that the Russians were talking to Trump’s campaign team on a regular basis during the campaign. We don’t know what they were talking about.

“Is it possible they were talking about the weather? It is. But if they happened to be talking about the thing that they had in common, which was trying to have Donald Trump elected for president, then it is also possible that something very, very bad took place,” he added.

 

 

 

 

 

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