Investigators Now Probing Kushner’s Digital Campaign Operation
Kushner’s role increasingly in focus as Russia investigation ramps up.
Investigators are looking into the Trump campaign’s digital operations which were led by Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.
The investigators are looking into whether Kushner or anyone on the campaign helped direct the Russians to use their advanced digital voter-targeting technology to Hillary Clinton in key states last year, according to a McClatchy DC report.
“Congressional and Justice Department investigators are focusing on whether Trump’s campaign pointed Russian cyber operatives to certain voting jurisdictions in key states – areas where Trump’s digital team and Republican operatives were spotting unexpected weakness in voter support for Hillary Clinton, according to several people familiar with the parallel inquiries,” McClatchy notes.
The Special Counsel, as well as the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, are examining whether Donald Trump’s campaign guided Russian cyber operatives to these key voting targets in swing states where the campaign detected voter support for Clinton, according to several people familiar with the inquiries who spoke with McClatchy.
Jared Kushner’s “role as a possible cut-out or conduit for Moscow’s influence operations in the elections,” as well as his role overseeing the campaign’s digital operations is being closely investigated according to a source who spoke with McClatchy.
Investigators also want to know if Trump campaign assisted hackers
The investigators are also looking into whether the Trump teams ties to the Trump campaign played a role in releasing the hacked emails of Clinton campaign aides or the DNC on WikiLeaks during the presidential campaign.
Congressman Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence panel, told McClatchy he wants to determine whether the Kremlin’s “fake or damaging news stories” were “coordinated in any way in terms of targeting or in terms of timing or in terms of any other measure … with the [Trump] campaign.”
The Russian cyber attacker used “bots” to spread fake or negative news about the Clinton campaign on social media during the election. These stories pushed by the Russians reached millions of voters in swing states.
Some of the stories came during key turning points in the election. For example, the false story about Clinton running a pedophile ring out of a DC pizza restaurant was being pushed heavily during the end of the campaign.
You can read the full McClatchy report here.
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