Federal prosecutors reportedly brought Jared Kushner before a grand jury and asked whether Donald Trump genuinely believed his own election lies. As stevebenen writes, this matters for reasons that might not be immediately obvious.
Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election have questioned multiple witnesses in recent weeks — including Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — about whether Mr. Trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had lost, according to four people briefed on the matter.
In other words, there’s no longer any question about whether Trump was lying about his defeat as he tried to cling to power. What prosecutors are apparently exploring is the extent to which the outgoing president knew his bogus claims were false while he made them. If this line of inquiry sounds at all familiar, it’s because this dimension to the larger controversy has been lingering for quite a while. Indeed, last fall, the bipartisan House select committee investigating Jan. 6, concluding that Trump knew he was lying while he was lying, pointing to a variety of witnesses — each of whom had close interactions with the former president after his defeat — who heard the Republican privately acknowledge his loss, even as he told the public he’d won.
But just as important is the fact that Kushner was directly involved in Team Trump’s post-defeat fundraising. Indeed, as my MSNBC colleague Lisa Rubin
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