No. Not what this means. It means he cleared existing and known deficiencies, not that the Mueller investigation leaked highly confidential investigative intel to the White House or to other agencies so they could process this one application. Mueller's case is far too important.
2/ WP source: "Theoretically, there could be something so sensitive that the special counsel’s office is not sharing it with other agencies, but I think that’s less likely."
Right—no reason to think Mueller has any sensitive, investigation-critical, unleakable info on Kushner...
Right—no reason to think Mueller has any sensitive, investigation-critical, unleakable info on Kushner...
3/ The Washington Post needs to have the courage of its convictions. If it thinks Kushner has been cleared of any wrongdoing between June 2015 and now, it should say clearly that Trump is also likely to be cleared of any wrongdoing. Hard to see Kushner being clean but not Trump.
4/ The chances Trump was involved in some sort of criminal conspiracy but that, despite his many lies, Kushner (one of Trump's top aides) knew *nothing about it* are nearly zero. So if Kushner is clean, the likelihood is Mueller is not going to bring/refer charges against Trump.
5/ Incidentally, this is my way of underscoring how *absolutely and risibly irresponsible* that Washington Post report is. It puts forward a *game-changing conclusion* that it has *absolutely no evidence whatsoever* to support. This is the very worst of journalism.
I'm sickened.
I'm sickened.
