Jared Kushner Directed Mike Flynn to Call Russian Ambassador Kislyak, Multiple Reports State

Kushner May Have Tried to Undermine Obama Foreign Policy

The Mueller plea agreement deal with Mike Flynn references a “very senior member” of then-president-elect Trump transition team. According to a just-published opinion piece by Bloomberg View writer Eli Lake, that person is Jared Kushner. Flynn pleaded guilty Friday morning to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.

It’s important to note that Lake has a strong journalism background. His Bloomberg bio states he “was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.”

According to Lake, “Flynn’s guilty plea Friday for lying to the FBI is alarming news for Donald Trump. But the first person it’s likely to jeopardize will be the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.”

Buzzfeed confirms the news:

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, called Michael Flynn in December 2016 and told him to call members of the UN Security Council in an effort to stop a vote on a resolution critical of Israeli settlement policy, according to a person who was present in the room when Flynn took the call.

Bloomberg’s Lake says Flynn “was instructed to contact foreign ambassadors and foreign ministers of countries on the U.N. Security Council, ahead of a vote condemning Israeli settlements. Flynn was told to try to get them to delay that vote until after Barack Obama had left office, or oppose the resolution altogether.”

Referencing “the U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements,” Lake writes:

Even though the Obama administration had less than a month left in office, the president instructed his ambassador to the United Nations to abstain from a resolution, breaking a precedent that went back to 1980 when it came to one-sided anti-Israel resolutions at the U.N.

This was the context of Kushner’s instruction to Flynn last December. One transition official at the time said Kushner called Flynn to tell him he needed to get every foreign minister or ambassador from a country on the U.N. Security Council to delay or vote against the resolution. Much of this appeared to be coordinated also with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose envoys shared their own intelligence about the Obama administration’s lobbying efforts to get member stats to support the resolution with the Trump transition team.   

Bottom line, according to Lake and Buzzfeed, Kushner is the one responsible for Flynn’s possible violation of the Logan Act, which makes it illegal for a U.S. citizen to negotiate with a foreign power.

In case you’re just learning of today’s bombshell news, check out NCRM’s reporting from earlier in the day (most recent ones are listed first):

ABC NEWS: Flynn Will Testify Against President Trump and Members of the Trump Family

CNN: Trump, Told Flynn Will Plead Guilty to Lying to FBI, Is Told by Aide Everyone in Washington Lies

Former Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn to Plead Guilty to Making False Statements to FBI

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