Former Watergate Asst. Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks warned that Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner is now at extreme risk of being prosecuted in the Russia scandal.
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Former Watergate Asst. Special Prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks warns that Jared Kushner is now extreme risk on the Russia investigation. #AllIn pic.twitter.com/BO5NkM2qWl
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Wine-Banks said on All In, “What I was going to say is that the noose is tightening. The pieces of the puzzle are all coming together. I would say that we have Jared Kushner in extreme risk right now. Remember that Manafort was in the meetings with him. And Gates could be the thing that pressures manafort to finally talk. But we also have to keep in mind that Gates was around after manafort was booted out of the campaign. So he was there all the way through the transition. And he knows things that Manafort even doesn’t know. So he could be a very compelling witness. He has been hurt as a witness, let’s not forget, he’s pleading guilty to being a liar. So that is one of the things that will undermine him as a witness. If you read carefully what has been said in the court documents, it says that he did these things on the orders of Manafort. But it doesn’t say that Manafort did these things. And so manafort now has the ability to say, well, he’s lying now. I didn’t tell him to do that. So we have to be you know, careful in how excited we are about what this means. But it does mean something because Mueller is not giving away the shop.
The new indictments are very bad news for Trump and Kushner
No one should be doing any victory dances yet, but there is clearly a method to the Special Counsel’s investigation. Mueller and his team are picking off the players one by one on this scandal and working their way up the food chain. Manafort seems to be the only person standing in the way of the floodgates completely opening up on Trump and Kushner.
Jared Kushner is in deep trouble, and where Kushner goes, Donald Trump Jr. is sure to follow. The dominoes are falling in this investigation, and the biggest domino of all is waiting to be tipped in the Oval Office.
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