Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., wants Jared Kushner to testify openly before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and said Congress shouldn’t assume he has told all of the truth about his meetings with Russian officials in his early morning statement Monday.
“It is imperative that the public hear Jared Kushner testify in an open session […], under oath, and support his claims with full transparency in the form of emails, documents and financial records,” Wyden said Monday.
Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, released a statement early Monday to the Senate Intelligence Committee offering his first public detailing of what he claims are four meetings with Russians. Those meetings, Kushner said, took place during the 2016 presidential campaign and during the transition.
According to Wyden, the 11-page statement from Kushner, “raises far more questions than it answers,” and his descriptions are “incomplete, at best.”
“[K]ushner has repeatedly concealed information about his personal finances and meetings with foreign officials. There should be no presumption that he is telling the whole truth,” Wyden added.
Kushner’s statement described the now infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that included Paul Manafort and Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. Kushner insisted that none of the interactions were about collusion or election interference.
Kushner is the first person from Trump’s team to appear before Congress amid several congressional committees’ investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. He is also expected to appear before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.
Manafort and Trump Jr. are also expected to meet with the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors.
