Posted on 05/27/2017 5:05:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Asked about reports that Donald Trump's son-in-law had tried to set up a secret channel of communication with Russia before the president took office, U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said that so-called "back-channeling" was normal.
McMaster declined to speak specifically about the case of Jared Kushner, who serves as a senior adviser to Trump, but when asked if it would concern him if someone in the administration tried to set up a back channel with the Russian embassy or the Kremlin, he replied "no."
"We have back-channel communications with any number of individual (countries). So generally speaking, about back-channel communications, what that allows you to do is communicate in a discreet manner," McMaster said.
"So it doesn't pre-expose you to any sort of content or any kind of conversation or anything. So we're not concerned about it."
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The media accidentally cleared the Trump administration of collusion with this leak. If Jared was seeking private channels with the Russians after the election, it proves the Trump campaign had no private, back-room channels with the Russians at any time during the election.
Pretty good point. Its hatred blinds so much that the vitriol spews and spews into contradictions.
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