{"id":21930,"date":"2017-05-27T00:18:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21930"},"modified":"2017-05-27T00:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T00:18:23","slug":"what-a-back-channel-phone-line-with-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21930","title":{"rendered":"What? A back-channel phone line with Kremlin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GettyImages-634145254-2-1280x720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21899\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GettyImages-634145254-2-1280x720-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GettyImages-634145254-2-1280x720-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GettyImages-634145254-2-1280x720-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GettyImages-634145254-2-1280x720-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/GettyImages-634145254-2-1280x720.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know Donald Trump&#8217;s son-in-law is entitled to an innocence presumption.<\/p>\n<p>Jared Kushner has now been shoved to the front row of a growing investigation into what the Trump presidential campaign may have done in connection with the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>The latest live grenade to explode deals with a report that Kushner and the Russians sought to set up a secret line through which the Trump team could communicate with the Kremlin, the seat of the Russian government in the heart of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s true &#8212; and I&#8217;ll presume that special counsel Robert Mueller will make that determination in due course &#8212; then it&#8217;s fair to ask: What would Kushner seek to keep\u00a0secret from normal communications channels?<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts are suggesting that this latest report might be a &#8220;game change&#8221; in the growing controversy. (I am going to refrain from calling it a &#8220;scandal&#8221; until we know a whole lot more.)<\/p>\n<p>The Mueller investigation is going to determine whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians seeking to influence the 2016 presidential election. Trump says &#8220;no.&#8221; His buddy, Russian President Vladimir Putin, says &#8220;nyet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If this latest revelation is a game-changer, then I&#8217;m believing that Donald J. Trump&#8217;s tenure as president is about to enter some seriously tenuous territory.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know Donald Trump&#8217;s son-in-law is entitled to an innocence presumption. Jared Kushner has now been shoved to the front row of a growing investigation into what the Trump presidential campaign may have done in connection with the Russian government. 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