Even if he was to receive an email today like the one before the 2016 campaign's Trump Tower meeting concerning contacts from Russia, senior adviser to the president Jared Kushner told “Axios on HBO” over the weekend that he does not know whether he'd call the FBI.
In the interview, Kushner said people are being "self-righteous" and playing "Monday morning quarterback" by suggesting that he should have contacted the FBI when he saw the email offering help for the Trump campaign from Russia.
"Let me put you in my shoes at that time,” Kushner explained. “I’m running three companies, I'm helping run the campaign. I get an email that says show up at 4 instead of 3 to a meeting that I had been told about earlier that I didn't know what the hell it was about."
When asked if he would call the FBI if it happened again, Kushner said, “I don't know. It's hard to do hypotheticals, but the reality is that we were not given anything that was salacious."
Kushner’s remarks comes after FBI Director Christopher Wray said in recent congressional testimony that what should happen in the future is that people contact the FBI if a foreign government offers campaign support.
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