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NEW: Trump ordered John Kelly to give Jared Kushner a security clearance last year. Troubled by decision, Kelly wrote a contemporaneous memo about how he'd been “ordered” to give Kushner top-secret clearance.
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Then-White House counsel Don McGahn also wrote an internal memo outlining concerns about Jared Kushner raised by intelligence officials, including the CIA [which Trump overruled], and how he'd recommended Kushner not be given top-secret clearance.
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Jared Kushner's FBI background check raised concerns his family business, foreign contacts, foreign travel, and potential foreign influence on him. But Trump overruled 2 career security specialists and ordered Kushner be given a security clearance.
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Recall: Apart from staff on the National Security Council, Jared Kushner issues more requests for information to the intelligence community than any White House employee. What's Kushner doing with ALL that intel?
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Prince MBS boasted that in Oct 2017, Kushner divulged Saudi figures disloyal to him – intel straight from the PDB. In Nov, MBS launched his royal purge. "Saudi figures named in the PDB were among those rounded up; at least 1 reportedly tortured."
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Jan 2018: Intelligence officials became concerned that the Chinese govt was seeking to use business inducements to influence Kushner’s views. Chinese envoys couldn’t believe Kushner was so compliant and eager to mix policy & business interests.
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Feb 2018: Officials in at least 4 countries [including UAE, China, Israel, & Mexico] have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner to their advantage by exploiting his financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience.
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Feb 8, 2019: Ivanka blatantly lies, claiming she and Jared Kushner received no special treatment from Trump when obtaining their top security clearances. "The president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance, zero.”
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MORE: After Jared Kushner and Ivanka PRESSURED Trump to grant Kushner the long-delayed clearance, Trump directed his then-chief of staff, John Kelly, to give his son-in-law a top-secret security clearance.
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