Christ on a Cracker! These People!

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser, on Friday released a revised version of his personal financial disclosure showing his initial filing omitted dozens of assets, including commercial real estate, bonds issued by the New York water and sewer authority, a personal art collection and a New Jersey liquor license.

According to the disclosure, 77 assets were “inadvertently omitted” from Mr. Kushner’s earlier form and were added during what the form’s footnotes describe as the “ordinary review” process with the government ethics office.

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Don Fox, who served as the ethics office’s general counsel from 2008 to 2013 and as acting director from 2011 until 2013, said the number of omissions on Mr. Kushner’s initial form was unusually high. “That strikes me as a lot,” he said. But Mr. Fox, who was tapped to serve as general counsel by a Bush appointee, said it isn’t “terribly unusual” for wealthy individuals, particularly those who lack previous government experience, to need to revise their forms.

  WSJ

They're so used to lying about their finances, they figure it's just what you do.

Ms. Gorelick said earlier this year that it was “very normal” for a financial disclosure form to be revised and that Mr. Kushner’s lawyers had prepared the form on his behalf.

So they can be in an adjoining cell.

In his initial disclosure, Mr. Kushner didn’t identify business relationships with Goldman Sachs Group and billionaires George Soros and Peter Thiel through a real-estate tech startup called Cadre that Mr. Kushner co-founded and currently partly owns, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year. An investment in Cadre valued at between $5 million and $25 million was included on the new disclosure, which showed Mr. Kushner resigned from his position with Cadre in January.

That's a pretty big spread there. Give or take $20 million.

Also among the omitted assets is an art collection valued at between $5 million and $25 million.

That must be a range on the form. It's a pretty big one.

The attorney said he hadn’t initially included the collection because it was for “personal enjoyment,” not held for investment purposes, but ultimately decided on disclosure.

Come on, asshole. You're an attorney. You know an art collection of that value is an asset. I don't care if they line their dresser drawers with it.

Another day, another Trump Family Scandal.

Also...

Russia’s ambassador to Washington [Sergey Kislyak] told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.

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Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.

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Officials emphasized that the information contradicting Sessions comes from U.S. intelligence on Kislyak’s communications with the Kremlin, and acknowledged that the Russian ambassador could have mischaracterized or exaggerated the nature of his interactions.

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But U.S. officials with regular access to Russian intelligence reports say Kislyak — whose tenure as ambassador to the United States ended recently — has a reputation for accurately relaying details about his interactions with officials in Washington.

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Sessions has said repeatedly that he never discussed campaign-related issues with Russian officials and that it was only in his capacity as a U.S. senator that he met with Kislyak.

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“I did not have communications with the Russians,” Sessions said when asked whether anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign had communicated with representatives of the Russian government.

He has since maintained that he misunderstood the scope of the question and that his meetings with Kislyak were strictly in his capacity as a U.S. senator. In a March appearance on Fox television, Sessions said, “I don’t recall any discussion of the campaign in any significant way.”

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“I did not have communications with the Russians,” Sessions said when asked whether anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign had communicated with representatives of the Russian government. He has since maintained that he misunderstood the scope of the question and that his meetings with Kislyak were strictly in his capacity as a U.S. senator. In a March appearance on Fox television, Sessions said, “I don’t recall any discussion of the campaign in any significant way.”

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[W]hen pressed for details [in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in June], Sessions qualified many of his answers during that hearing by saying that he could “not recall” or did not have “any recollection.”

  WaPo

Elves have notoriously faulty memories.

The apparent discrepancy could pose new problems for Sessions at a time when his position in the administration appears increasingly tenuous.

Did somebody leak this on Trump's behalf so that he can now have "good reason" to fire Sessions? We'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Diogenes is wandering the halls of the White House.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.