Report: Trump Ordered Aide to Give Kushner Security Clearance

Report: Trump Ordered Aide to Give Kushner Security Clearance

February 28, 2019, 9:15 PM

Report: Trump Ordered Aide to Give Kushner Security Clearance

FILE - White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, listens as President Donald Trump, left, announces a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.
FILE – White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, listens as President Donald Trump, left, announces a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

WASHINGTON —

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff in May to grant his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance, The New York Times reported Thursday.

It said senior administration officials were troubled by the decision, which prompted then White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to write an internal memo about how he had been ordered to give Kushner the top-secret clearance.

The White House counsel at the time, Donald McGahn, also wrote an internal memo outlining concerns raised about Kushner and how McGahn had recommended against the decision, it said.

The Times said the memos contradicted a statement made by Trump in an interview with the newspaper in January that he had no role in Kushner’s receiving his clearance.

Asked about the report, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said: “We don’t comment on security clearances.”

Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Kushner’s attorney Abbe Lowell, said in an email that White House and security clearance officials last year asserted that Kushner’s clearance was “handled in the regular process with no pressure from anyone.”

“New stories, if accurate, do not change what was affirmed at the time,” Mirijanian said.

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