How the Kremlin duped Kushner

Jared Kushner's suspected dealings with the Russians has landed him in hot water at the White House. Emily Hohler reports.

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Jared Kushner has displayed "rookie naivety"
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While US president Donald Trump was completing the final leg of his first foreign tour last week, the FBI probe into the Russia scandal closed in on his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his meetings with Russian officials at the end of last year. On Friday, The Washington Post reported that Kushner met with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to Washington, during the transition. Hours after his return to the US on Saturday night, Trump "went on the offensive" with a series of tweets suggesting that many of the White House leaks were "fabricated by reporters seeking to damage his presidency", says Sam Fleming in the Financial Times.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.