Trump overruled security officials to demand Jared Kushner get top-secret clearance, report says

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The New York Times reports that President Trump overruled security officials and White House counsel in giving his son-in-law top secret security clearance.

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner talks with President Donald Trump during a signing ceremony for criminal justice reform legislation in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 21, 2018.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

McGahn's memo laid out concerns raised about Kushner and the fact that McGahn had recommended against giving him a clearance that high. "We don’t comment on security clearances," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told NBC News Thursday when asked about the Times report. Reaction to the report from some Democrats was swift. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, tweeted that"the mystery" of how Kushner was granted a top-secret security clearance has been solved."His father in law ordered it."

The mystery of how Jared Kushner was granted a top secret security clearance despite myriad financial entanglements and undisclosed foreign meetings has been solved:It’s called clearance by nepotism and a serious abuse that endangers our security.

 

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Two of a kind...

Why not?

He is such a danger to this country

Fake president

Hmmm NYT not credible source for anything

But you're not reporting how Obama gave secret security clearances to KNOWN terrorists.

No brainers take away the clearance and lock them up!

Kushner lawyer spokesperson: In 2018, WH and security clearance officials affirmed that Mr. Kushner’s security clearance was handled in the regular process ... That was conveyed to the media at the time, and new stories, if accurate, do not change what was affirmed at the time

There's a change coming in the dictionary these three words now have the same meaning, Turd, Tool, and Trump.

Oh No - Poor MSNBC can't tell what to think and say. Oh say it isn't so.

hardball I JUST GUESS YALL ARE JEALOUS BECAUSE NOT A SINGLE ONE OF YOU HAS THE POWER TO OVERRIDE ANYTHING, JUST WHINE AND MUCH POWER THAT TAKE ALL YOU GOT BECAUSE ITS ALL YOU CAN DO.

MMcFaddenWNDU So what, Obama is still paying his mother in law from taxpayers

This ugly press attacks the Preident continually yet under Barry we had the press excepting all acts of terrorism being called Work Place Violence or Benghazi where him and Hillary let Americans die

How in the fuck is this “presidency “ still a thing

The only thing he needs to do now is make a member of his family VP so if he gets impeached his family will still run the place.

Not good, not right, this security should be taken away from Kushner and Ivanka

Who Cares !!!!

This headline should have an asterisk: *But Ultimately Nothing Will Be Done

Cares nothing about the people or the country in the USA.

Gosh, seems you guys don't get it. HE IS THE PRESIDENT. Where this upset when obama provided security clearance for Valarie Jarrett? Her dad, maternal grandfather, and father-in-law were 'Hardcore Communists' but this didn't seem to upset you at all.

Cool.

More fake news

The question isn't why did Trump grant his son-in-law a top secret clearance, the question is why couldn't Jared get one on his own?

Please add that he then lied about it.

Jared you’re going to prison.

Now we know how Jarred got the money to pay off his loan for that building - he’s selling our secrets😡

They have no proof as of yet. Just speculation. Beyond that the president has every right to do that if he did. So nothing to see here

So. Zzzzzzzzzz

RecallJared'sSecurityClearence

Is Jared Kushner a foreign agent?

OLD NEWS

Good to know because something like that getting done without some overruling of the officials would make the officials corrupt. Trump doesn't care how anyone looks when he interferes, only that he gets his way. Good that it is coming out. Our government looks better now.

Liberal MSM has been lying about POTUS Trump since early in his presidency when an NYT reporter falsely claimed that POTUS Trump removed the MLK bust from the Oval office.Liberal “Fake News/Lies MSM is not journalism. Its propaganda NYT is an ENEMY of America.

How is our Congress letting Mr Trump get away with this? Where are the checks and balances? sad

What does this photo say to me? It's almost as if sitting at this boardroom meeting table, Jared K has this thought: 'got you right where I want you, old man. It's only a matter of time now...'

You know that's legal right?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t we hear about this a few weeks ago?

I don’t think Jared is a security risk.

He has the authority to do that but damn everything he does has the look of impropriety and fraud bordering on criminal. Everything.

hardball THE office from which I now sit is and always has been but one thing to me and my family the means of DESTROYING the lie of democracy the rule of WHITE LAW however must STAND financial entitlements' to the RICH ESPECIALLY my family

DICKTATER

Couldn’t General Kelly stand up to Trump ? Or is that why he resigned?

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I’m more concerned about the national security emergency in the Oval Office than the fake one at the border.

Recycling news. Funny

Well, we haven't seen the memo, and Kelly didn't return our calls... Does it make Trump look bad. Yes... Run it!

The rules do not apply to these people. Never have, never will

How else could he get the nukes to Mr. Bone Saw?

And what did this POS do for 8 yrs?

America doesn’t give a shit 😂😂😂

Bring Kushner home right now and the CIA and Congress need to debrief him. Strip him of his credential and start hearings. He should not be allow to set one foot in the WH. NSA should be ordered to put a lick on his door!!!

This is a very serious breach/overreach. Do you have to NOT be in Congress to recognize this?

How else can he give juicy info to the murderer Saudi Prince without it

You think THAT'S bad? Have you heard about the time when a sitting President ran an international spying operation on Candidate Trump? Yep! Ran it straight out of the White House! Just ask FBI lawyer, Lisa Page!

How many of us should feel more secure with that action? A WH full of amateurs, relatives and crackpots.

Damn - friends and family exception on security clearances? Who knew?

I am sure Trump will comment.

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