NEW YORK — White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said Tuesday the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election “had a much harder impact on our democracy” than what Russia actually did. Kushner was present in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and campaign chairman Paul Manafort when a Kremlin-connected lawyer offered dirt on rival Hilary Clinton’s campaign. But Kushner said he texted an aide to get him out of the meeting because he found it unhelpful. “Nice to have extraordinarily smart people serving our Country!”The FBI warned the Trump campaign in July 2016 that Russia would likely try to infiltrate or influence its election efforts. That month, Trump publicly urged Russia to find some of Clinton’s missing emails, a remark he later characterized as a joke.

Source: National Post April 23, 2019 16:23 UTC