Trump Requests Security Clearance for Son-in-law Jared Kushner in Unprecedented Move

The children would have to be accepted as national security advisers to their father by current White House authorities to obtain clearance.

The latest media outrage about Donald Trump is that the president-elect had asked the Obama White House to give top-level national security clearance to his three oldest children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. “No paperwork has been completed or sent in or submitted to this effect”.

US President-elect Donald Trump was considering to have his children gain top-level security clearance, according to a source from Trump’s transition team.

A 1967 law forbids the president from employing their immediate family members in the government and anyone with top security clearance must be an employee of the government in some form.

Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, has been by the businessman’s side at Trump Tower in New York City since the election a little over one week ago.

Amid murmurings of transition turmoil, Trump took to Twitter on Monday night and early Tuesday morning to decry media reports as “false” and claim the ongoing process is going “so smoothly”.

And could Kushner get a security clearance?

On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump and four of his five children appeared on 60 Minutes in their first television interview as first family.

To avoid breaking a federal anti-nepotism law, Kushner likely wouldn’t take any pay for his work, the Journal reported.

Ivanka Trump’s fashion brand is revamping its policies in the wake of criticism that the business is trying to profit from her father’s rise to the White House.

“We’ll be in NY and we’ll take care of the business”, Trump’s son, Eric, said.

But Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller said no official request has been made and his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told reporters that if there was such an inquiry, it was informal.

He added that she won’t be taking a job in the White House.

Bigley pointed out that the President does have the authority to create a new position, such as a special adviser, that would require access to classified material.