So it seems as though the emails were uncovered recently by Jared Kushner’s legal team as it was reviewing documents. The team, in fact, amended his clearance forms TO discover it.
And now President Trump has promised a press conference next week involving Clinton.
June 7 – 5:16 PM – Don Jr. confirms meeting w/ Russian lawyer
June 7 – 9:13 PM Trump promises press conf the next week with Clinton dirt. pic.twitter.com/qAYEvymsdV
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) July 11, 2017
As written for HotAir.com by AllahPundit:
The Times goes on to note that Manafort also disclosed the meeting with the Russian lawyer to federal investigators but says nothing about him mentioning emails. Kushner and Manafort are the only members of the inner circle with a conceivable motive to go public with this stuff: Each of them was a much bigger player in the campaign than Don Jr was, so if the fact that the meeting took place had somehow ended up in the papers, the coverage likely would have focused on one or both of them instead of Junior — probably Kushner most of all since, unlike Manafort, he works in the White House as a top advisor. The solution, presumably, was for Team Jared (or Team Paul) to leak the details of the meeting preemptively, emphasizing that Donald Jr, not Kushner or Manafort, had been the one excited at the prospect of Russian-provided oppo on Hillary Clinton. How Kushner’s going to manage his relationship with the president after this, I can’t imagine.
credit: Gage SkidmoreUnder different circumstances, he might be fired for it. But (a) he’s technically part of the family as Ivanka’s better half and (b) he may know too much about potential criminal activity for Trump to risk alienating him while Bob Mueller’s out there digging around. What’s a beleaguered president to do? Why not … fire Reince Priebus instead?
The makeup of Trump’s inner circle is the subject of internal debate, as ever. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser; Jared Kushner, her husband and another senior adviser; and first lady Melania Trump have been privately pressing the president to shake up his team — most specifically by replacing Reince Priebus as the White House chief of staff, according to two senior White House officials and one ally close to the White House.
The three family members are especially concerned about the steady stream of unauthorized leaks to journalists that have plagued the administration over the nearly six months that President Trump has been in office, from sensitive national security information to embarrassing details about the inner workings of the White House, the officials said.
Imagine Reince getting canned over leaks at the urging of Jared and Ivanka, only for some paper to later confirm that it was Kushner’s lawyers who ratted out Don Jr in the first place.
But wait, the potential departures from the White House don’t end there. If you believe the Times, Trump’s lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, may also be thinking of quitting because of — ta da — Jared Kushner.
Mr. Kasowitz and his colleagues have been deeply frustrated by the president. And they have complained that Mr. Kushner has been whispering in the president’s ear about the Russia investigations and stories while keeping the lawyers out of the loop, according to another person familiar with the legal team. But one person familiar with Mr. Kasowitz’s thinking said his concerns did not relate to Mr. Kushner.
The president’s lawyers view Mr. Kushner as an obstacle and a freelancer more concerned about protecting himself than his father-in-law, the person said. While no ultimatum has been delivered, the lawyers have told colleagues that they cannot keep operating that way, raising the prospect that Mr. Kasowitz may resign.
Oh My: It Was Jared Kushner’s Legal Team Who “Discovered” Trump Jr’s Emails