Kushner Reportedly Told Interns Trump Campaign Was Too Disorganized to Collude With Russia

According to Jared Kushner, his father-in-law’s campaign couldn’t have colluded with the Russians because they were barely holding their own team together during the 2016 election.

A new report from Foreign Policy describes a recent private meeting between Kushner and a group of interns at the Capitol Visitor Center auditorium. Kushner said he didn’t know what would come of Robert Mueller‘s investigation into President Trump, though he insisted that the campaign was in so much disarray for them to have worked in tandem with a foreign power.

“They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices,” Kushner said, according to notes from the Q&A session. Kushner also told the room to “make sure you guys keep track of where you travel,” apparently minimizing his failure to disclose all of his travels and contacts with foreign officials on his security clearance forms.

Last week, Kushner faced questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee about his involvement in the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney who was supposedly going to provide damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Kushner insisted that the president did not collude with Russia, that their campaign was stronger, and that to suggest anything else “ridicules” the people who voted for Trump.

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