RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, on Monday [7-24-17] released details of his contacts with Russian officials and businesspeople in the two years since Mr. Trump launched his presidential campaign, including a previously undisclosed, brief meeting with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. in April 2016.
In the newly disclosed April encounter—shortly before Mr. Trump would become the Republican party’s effective nominee—Mr. Kushner met ambassador Sergei Kislyak at an event at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kushner said he was introduced to Mr. Kislyak and three other ambassadors by Dimitri Simes, the publisher of a foreign-policy magazine who was hosting the event, at a reception held directly before it.
A spokesman for Mr. Kushner had previously denied that the two met privately at that event. A separate Kushner spokesman said Monday that the statement doesn’t contradict the previous denial because the two met at a reception, not one-on-one.
The meeting with Mr. Kislyak was revealed in an 11-page statement Mr. Kushner prepared for congressional committees probing allegations of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign. He is meeting Monday with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which marks his first time speaking with congressional investigators.”
-Rebecca Ballhaus, “Jared Kushner Details Russia Meetings, Denies Collusion,” The Wall Street Journal online, July 24, 2017 06:42am