DHS Chief: I Dont See Any Big Issue If Kushner Tried To Set Up Backchannel

[turbinetree]

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Sunday said he does not “see any big issue” with reports that senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, who is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, sought to set up backchannel communications with the Kremlin before Trump’s inauguration.

“I know Jared. He’s a great guy, decent guy. His number one interest, really, is the nation, so you know there’s a lot of different ways to communicate, backchannel, publicly with other countries,” Kelly told Chuck Todd on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”

He said Kushner made those efforts “before the government was in place during the transition period, I think, from what I understand.”


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-kelly-jared-kushner-moscow-backchannel

[luvMIdog]

1. yeah yeah yeah.

[angstlessk]

3. His fucking #1 issue is Kushner

#2 is trump
#3 is russia
#2,875 and 1/2 is the American people!

[luvMIdog]

4. He isn't saying anything because he doesn't want to lose his job so it's all about the love ;)

[angstlessk]

6. I am sooo sympathetic to your computer guy!

[luvMIdog]

7. lol it's how this administration is making me feel

[democratisphere]

2. Attempting to normalize treason.

To be expected.

[gademocrat7]

5. Kelly is spewing the cabal line.

Kushner is not qualified for this position. He is a criminal grifter.

[furtheradu]

8. That interview today was alarming to me.

Not only his obvious defense of trump, kushner, ruskies, but he is WAY over his head as Home land Security Secretary.
NOT intelligent, NOT articulate..
Really made me feel OUR Nation is in danger.

Also, todd's questions about security clearances were interesting.

Wth.

[SummerSnow]

9. check his papers

[BigmanPigman]

10. Get ready...this will be the typical GOP and White House reaction to anything Russain

for the next "?" years. McMasters did the same. They are falling in line like the Third Reich.

[IndianaDave]

11. Clearly, the White House War Room is up and running!

[Moral Compass]

12. Make normalization and rationalization an Olympic event

If normalization and rationalization were made Olympic events this guy could compete and win the gold medal.

He is a clear example of how Trump did not go out and find the best people to put in the senior cabinet positions. He's a non-entity. A nothing. I'm sure he gets little respect from the thousands of people that work for him that are professionals.

We are watching our experiment in democracy come to an embarrassing end. All democracies ultimately commit suicide. What I was not expecting was our end to be quite so soon and so utterly Kafkaesque.

[Skittles]

13. but he went apeshit over Hillary's emails, right?

fuck them all