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Donald Trump ordered his then-chief of staff John Kelly to grant his son-in-law Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance, according to four people "briefed on the matter," the New York Times reports.
Furthermore, the Times has learned, the decision last year "so troubled senior administration officials" that Kelly wrote a memo at the time detailing how he'd been ordered to grant the clearance. That's not the only memo, according to the Times. "Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner—including by the C.I.A.—and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance."
That contradicts Trump's statements to the Times last month that he had nothing to do with Kushner's clearance and hadn't intervened in any way. Kushner's lawyer and Ivanka Trump have also said that he got the clearance all on his own, with no help from his boss and father-in-law. Because they are all liars. Asked for comment on the existence of these memos contradicting Trump, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said "We don’t comment on security clearances."
So there's something else for Trump to be sweating right now. Because you know those aren't the only memos Kelly, McGahn, and any number of departed White House staff, wrote—and took with them upon departure.