President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been revealed as the White House Official whose security clearance was initially denied over foreign influence concerns.
Kushner was the individual identified as ‘Senior White House Official 1’ in a House Oversight Committee memo on Monday summarizing the testimony of an executive branch whistle-blower, sources told the Washington Post.
The whistle-blower, Tricia Newbold, said that her denial of Kushner’s clearance was overruled despite her concerns about ‘foreign influence, outside activities… and personal conduct,’ the memo stated.
Though the memo didn’t specify the nature of her concerns, foreign officials from Israel, China, the United Arab Emirates, and Mexico all discussed ways to gain leverage on Kushner, the Post reported last year.
According to the new report, Kushner was among 25 White House officials who were granted security clearances over Newbold’s objections.
“According to Ms. Newbold, these individuals had a wide range of serious disqualifying issues involving foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use and criminal conduct,” the memo says.
So what they did, they fired Tricia Newbold instead…
In January 2019, Newbold was suspended for fourteen days without pay for refusing to cooperate with procedures implemented by her supervisor.
She has alleged that this suspension was made in retaliation for attempting to express her concerns about the granting of security clearances by her office.
In March 2019, Newbold spoke privately to the House Oversight Committee, claiming that at least 25 Trump administration officials were granted security clearances over the objections of career staffers.
Newbold also asserted that some of these officials had previously had their applications rejected for “disqualifying issues”, only for those rejections to be overturned with inadequate explanation.
On April 1, 2019, Elijah Cummings, the Committee chair, released a letter detailing Newbold’s accusations.
In a subsequent interview with NBC News, she accused her former boss, Carl Kline, of embarrassing her by moving files to high locations where she could not reach them.
She had previously filed a complaint against Kline with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for this alleged behavior.
How is this draining the swamp? Wake up, Trump IS the swamp, you were all lied to!
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