MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Jared Kushner said in his July testimony to the US Congress in the probe into alleged Trump’s campaign team collusion with Russia, that he did not have any contacts with WikiLeaks whistleblowing website and he did not know about such contacts by other team members, according to his attorney Abbe Lowell.
"Mr. Kushner was asked if he had contacts with Wikileaks, Guccifer or DC Leaks and said no. He also said he did not know of such contacts by the campaign. From all I have now seen, his statement was accurate then as it is now. In over 6 hours of voluntary testimony, Mr. Kushner answered all questions put to him and demonstrated that there had been no collusion between the campaign and Russia," Lowell said in a statement as quoted by CNN.
The attorney's statement comes amid a revelation concerning the US president’s son Donald Trump Jr. was engaged in secret correspondence with WikiLeaks during the height of the US presidential election campaign in autumn 2016. Trump Jr. subsequently released the chain of messages that he had exchanged with WikiLeaks.
Following the report, US lawmakers from the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote a letter to Lowell asking him to submit some documents, required for the investigation, including an email about WikiLeaks, which Kushner had forwarded to another campaign official.
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Kushner was questioned by US lawmakers behind closed doors in July after media reports had emerged about his participation in a meeting in June 2016, between Trump Jr., and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, during which the lawyer allegedly wanted to provide Trump Jr. with some damaging information about Trump’s then-election rival Hillary Clinton. The claim was subsequently denied by Veselnitskaya who also said she had no links to the Kremlin.
The US authorities are currently probing Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential vote, as well as alleged "collusion" between Trump’s team and Moscow, a probe called a "witch hunt" by President Trump. Both the US president's administration and Moscow have repeatedly denied the allegations, with the Kremlin calling the accusations "absurd" and "groundless."
