Jared Kushner’s message to Senate investigators on his dealings with Russia will keep him in the clear for now, Charles Krauthammer argued today. However, Trump’s “beleagured” Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, finds himself in hot water.
Krauthammer breaks down the palace intrigue shaking up the White House today:
I thought it was a very effective statement. Look, his defense essentially is that I was a naive, inexperienced, careless at times, clueless at times, rookie in all of this. And to me, it rings true. It’s not the greatest of defenses. It’s not exactly the one you want to go to, but you have to, in this case. And I think he comes out as a guy who’s being fairly open about what he did. There are a few phrases there that are very lawyerly like, “I never relied on Russian funds in my business.” Rely is an interesting word, implying that there might have been loans or other stuff we don’t know about. But overall, I thought it was a good statement, and it looked like he’s clean. As for Sessions, I said on Friday that he’s a wounded man walking. I would revise that after that Tweet today from Trump. I think he’s an extremely, dangerously wounded man walking, and I think it’s now only a matter of time. The only reason possibly for Trump to refer to the AG the way he did is that he wants his resignation, and it seems to me that he’ll get it very soon.
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