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Jared Kushner's Growing Stench of Treason

| May 27, 2017

Nobody knows yet whether the president's son-in-law broke any laws. But "traitor" is more than just a legal term.

It's time to talk about treason.

We now know, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports cited by the Washington Post, that in early December 2016 Jared Kushner and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak "discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities, in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring."

At any time in the Cold War, what Kushner did would certainly have attracted the stigma of treachery. Should the same standard apply today?

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For Academic Citation: Simpson, Emile.“Jared Kushner's Growing Stench of Treason.” Foreign Policy, May 27, 2017.

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