Posted on 02/23/2018 7:22:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
White House senior aide Jared Kushner’s multiple omissions on required financial disclosure forms for his security clearance would “be a crime, punishable by prison” for other people, Fox News host Shepard Smith said Thursday.
“Apparently not in this case,” Smith added.
The White House has implied that Kushner’s frequent revisions to his financial forms to provide information that was incorrect or missing have caused delays which have held up his security clearance, even though he works with an interim clearance that allows him to view classified information.
Two sources, however, also told CNN Thursday that Kushner will not obtain full security clearance until special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is complete.
Donald Trump’s son-in-law “submitted his application and did not include 100 contacts with foreigners,” Smith said on “Shepard Smith Reporting.” He “later had to go back and include them ... but he did not include the meeting in Trump Tower with the Russian lawyer and Russian translator. So that was another amendment to this thing.”
Revisions made last July by Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump, added 77 previously undisclosed assets and more than $10 million in holdings.
Further additions were made as recently as last month, according to a letter obtained by Talking Points Memo. The letter to White House deputy counsel Stefan Passantino dated Jan. 3 added a number of additional business interests. It also corrected and added new corporate positions that Kushner was legally required to disclose in his initial paperwork.
A conviction for withholding, misrepresenting or falsifying information on the form for security clearance can result in up to $10,000 in fines and five years in prison.
“It’s really uncommon you’d still be trying to get the form correct at this stage in the game,”
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Who the heck is his audience? I sure can’t stand watching him, reminds me too much of Rachel Maddow.
People go to prison for what Hillary did.
I am not a Kushner fan. I just keep thinking the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Yes, it is but sometimes we on the outside can see things those too close to a situation cannot see. Just saying...
I can’t take anyone who wears the same eye shadow as David Bowie seriously.
People go to prison for deleting classified emails and conspiring with foreign agents to alter the outcome of a presidential election. Oh wait.
People do go to jail for being Trump's ally.
such vision is bias or even perhaps bigotry
As a long time user of Botox—hey, I’ll admit it, with great results, I’m here to tell you, Miss Smith really, really needs to find a better injector.
Shemp is a pillow biter who should have been fired for his Katrina theatrics.
Don’t you be besmirchin’ Shemp!
People who commit treason should be executed.
No need to mention names.
Not always. We can agree to disagree. I never trusted Jared from the gitgo.
Watch NCIS (reruns) from 3-4 or turn of the box.
Hey Shep people used to go to prison for sodomy you obnoxious pervert
Touche!
Aww, you beat me to it.
But he had no “intent”... and no reasonable prosecutor would bring that case.
MOA. My opinion also.
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