Jared Kushner Under Scrutiny Amid Loans Allegedly Received After White House Meetings

Trump has vented at times that the couple should have never come to the White House and should leave, White House aides told the newspaper.

What’s important is not that Trump is angry or thinks he is ill-served by staff.

Even by the standards of Trump’s often chaotic administration, the announcement of Hope Hicks’ imminent exit spread new levels of anxiety across the West Wing and cracked open disputes that had been building since the White House’s botched handling of domestic violence allegations against a senior aide late last month. Kushner especially was given the responsibility for a myriad range of departments.

In private conversations, Trump has expressed both regret for Kushner taking on water in his current role, but also annoyance for having to deal with it.

On Tuesday, Politico first reported that Kushner’s top-secret security clearance was taken away after months of delays in completing his background check. And with so many people on temporary clearances for so long, there are concerns that the high standard of what only those with permanent clearances can access may be eroding.

Compounding these demonstrations of poor judgment is the fact that Kushner has had to submit his SF-86 form, which among other things catalogs relations with foreign nationals for purposes of granting a security clearance, four different times.

On notice: The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued “dozens of subpoenas and information requests” to companies involved in the cryptocurrencies market, the paper reports.

In an alternate universe, President Hillary Rodham Clinton may have proposed sending her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, to head a USA delegation attending the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. But they better get used to it. Every time he turns on the news there’s some new shady business involving Kushner that the media’s sniffing around; this morning it was the unhappy coincidence of Jared supporting Saudi Arabia’s blockade of Qatar just a few weeks after the Qatari government declined to invest in a property owned by his family’s firm. In initial filings to gain security clearances, he omitted more than 100 calls or contacts with foreign officials or entities and at least 70 assets, oversights he later blamed on inexperience and overwork.

Cornyn, who sat next to Trump for the meeting, described it as “surreal”. Putin’s remarks seem unlikely to change that equation or divert the Trump administration from its path toward modernizing the full USA nuclear arsenal at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars while also expanding missile defenses.

All of the officials whose clearances were downgraded held the top secret designation on an interim basis.

When White House aides arrived at work Thursday, they had no clear idea of what Trump would say about trade.

“You have to know what they know”, he said. “Or rather, you can do the job, but you will do it badly”.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly sent a memo last Friday that set a February 23 deadline for halting access to top secret information for those whose applications have been pending since June 1 or before that date.

At the Forward, Peter Beinart says Kushner’s position epitomizes the inequality of American society- he is only there because of extreme wealth, not brains or achievement.

Before Donald Trump became President, strong anti-nepotism and conflict-of-interest rules governed the White House, and Congress showed an interest in enforcing them. The chief of staff also said the claims shocked him and the rest of the staff. He was one of Trump’s advisors who most hard supported, against chief strategist Steve Bannon, to dismiss FBI director, James Comey, after his refusal to give shelve to investigation. She is preceded by Sean Spicer, Mike Dubke, and Anthony Scaramucci.

Some former U.S. negotiators, however, insist the intelligence reports are less important than the human-to-human side of negotiations, in which Kushner can still, theoretically, engage.

One source – who is a presidential ally – is anxious, really worried.