House Democrats are setting sights on Ivanka Trump's security clearance
With  Jared Kushner  coming under fire for having to add more than 100 contacts to  his  security clearance form  Democrats are taking aim at another top White House adviser — Ivanka Trump.
Democrats are inquiring about whether Trump  the White House assistant who is President Donald Trump's daughter and Kushner's husband  similarly failed to disclose contacts that  Kushner  had on her own clearance form.
The group of 20 House Democrats pointed to contacts  Kushner  failed to report initially  such as  his  meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak  Russian banker Sergey Gorkov  and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya  the latter of which was also attended by then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the president's eldest son  Donald Trump Jr.  in June 2016.
"The fact that Jared Kushner initially omitted this meeting from his [security clearance form]  and only disclosed it after coming under considerable scrutiny  implies that he knew something untoward had happened " Beyer  a Virginia Democrat  said in a statement  adding that "Kushner should not be permitted access to classified material  he should not be empowered to conduct official business on behalf of the American people  and he should not be allowed to continue in any capacity as a counselor to the president."
"He has irrevocably betrayed the public trust " he continued. "Jared Kushner must resign. If he will not  he should be fired."
Democrats made an effort to have Kushner's clearance stripped last week  when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida  introduced a pair of amendments to 2018 appropriations bills aimed at revoking  Kushner 's clearance. The amendments were both voted down by 22 to 30 margins.
Republicans too have expressed concern regarding the clearances after news of  Kushner 's attendance at the meeting with Veselnitskaya. Emails released by Trump Jr. showed the meeting was set up on the premise of the Russian lawyer providing the Trump campaign with supposedly damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
Trump Jr.'s "preemptive release of the emails that led to the meeting with the Russian operative puts Jared Kushner in legal peril " Rick Tyler  the communications director for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign who is now an MSNBC contributor  told Business Insider in an email last week. "He has consistently failed to make mandatory discloses of meetings with foreign nationals including this one which is a felony."
House Democrats are setting sights on Ivanka Trump's security clearance
With  Jared Kushner  coming under fire for having to add more than 100 contacts to  his  security clearance form  Democrats are taking aim at another top White House adviser — Ivanka Trump. Democrats are inquiring about whether Trump  the White House assistant who is President Donald Trump's daughter and Kushner's husband  similarly failed to disclose contacts that  Kushner  had on her own clearance form. The group of 20 House Democrats pointed to contacts  Kushner  failed to report initially  such as  his  meetings with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak  Russian banker Sergey Gorkov  and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya  the latter of which was also attended by then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and the president's eldest son  Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016. "The fact that Jared Kushner initially omitted this meeting from his [security clearance form]  and only disclosed it after coming under considerable scrutiny  implies that he knew something untoward had happened " Beyer  a Virginia Democrat  said in a statement  adding that "Kushner should not be permitted access to classified material  he should not be empowered to conduct official business on behalf of the American people  and he should not be allowed to continue in any capacity as a counselor to the president. "
"He has irrevocably betrayed the public trust " he continued. "Jared Kushner must resign. If he will not  he should be fired. "
Democrats made an effort to have Kushner's clearance stripped last week  when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida  introduced a pair of amendments to 2018 appropriations bills aimed at revoking  Kushner 's clearance. The amendments were both voted down by 22 to 30 margins. Republicans too have expressed concern regarding the clearances after news of  Kushner 's attendance at the meeting with Veselnitskaya. Emails released by Trump Jr. showed the meeting was set up on the premise of the Russian lawyer providing the Trump campaign with supposedly damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Trump Jr. 's "preemptive release of the emails that led to the meeting with the Russian operative puts Jared Kushner in legal peril " Rick Tyler  the communications director for Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign who is now an MSNBC contributor  told Business Insider in an email last week. "He has consistently failed to make mandatory discloses of meetings with foreign nationals including this one which is a felony. "