Jared Kushner’s night just got even worse for him
Here’s the thing about this week’s bombshell revelation that Donald Trump ordered that Jared Kushner be given the highest possible security clearance, even after White House officials deemed him a security risk to the United States. It’s the kind of cascading scandal that tends to set off a series of subsequent, and sometimes even larger, scandals. One of those just happened.
All along, Jared Kushner’s criminal defense attorney Abbe Lowell has claimed that Donald Trump had nothing to do with Kushner’s security clearance. But now that that’s been exposed as a lie, Lowell seems far more intent on protecting himself than he is in protecting his client Kushner. Lowell put out a statement to NBC News today which tried to clarify that he had merely been led to believe that Trump wasn’t involved in Kushner’s clearance. So why is this a big deal?
Attorneys can get disbarred for knowingly making false claims about the case in public, or for failing to publicly correct the record after learning that what they’d previously said was incorrect. Lowell is clearly not willing to go down with the Trump-Kushner ship on this one, which is understandable. But this is the kind of incident that can shatter an attorney-client relationship, because Lowell is basically telling the world that Kushner lied to him.
In other words, even as Jared Kushner comes closer to his inevitable indictment on who knows how many charges, he may have just lost the criminal defense attorney who’s been handling his case all along. These Trump people just can’t seem to stop lying, and any honest people around them keep running away screaming.
