Reports that President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was trying to establish a secret line of communication between the Trump transition team and Russian government officials have raised concerns among U.S. defense and intelligence experts. It remains unclear what his intent may have been, but Kushner is reportedly at the center of an investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
The White House has neither confirmed nor denied that Kushner made such an effort, but some of the president’s allies said the 36-year-old businessman would have been doing nothing wrong by trying to forge better relations with the Kremlin before Trump assumed office.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told Fox News that back-channel communications were “the regular course of business.”
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