At least a dozen Democratic lawmakers took to Twitter on Friday to call for top White House adviser Jared Kushner’s security clearance to be revoked.
The latest push for taking away Kushner’s security clearance began when Donald Trump Jr. tweeted an email thread on Tuesday disclosing that a Russian government official had reached out to him while on the campaign trail, promising damaging information on Trump’s 2016 election opponent, Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr., along with Kushner, his brother-in-law, and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, attended that meeting in June 2016.
With this latest Russia-related controversy rocking the Trump administration, House Democrats are renewing their months-long campaign to get Kushner’s security clearance revoked because he originally failed to disclose the meeting on a security clearance form that he filled out prior to receiving his clearance. The hashtag “#RevokeKushner” began trending in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
The New York Times reported that although the top White House adviser did not originally disclose the meeting, his legal team recently discovered the emails and “amended his clearance forms to disclose it.”
