Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election-meddling is looking into Jared Kushner’s interactions with foreign leaders before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. That includes the role Kushner, a top White House adviser and Trump’s son-in-law, played in a United Nations dispute last December involving Israel. The incoming Trump administration had been asked by Israel to intervene to block a resolution condemning Israeli settlements in disputed territories. The resolution eventually passed, after the Obama administration did not move to block it. Kushner originally disclosed earlier this year on his security-clearance application he had no contacts with foreign government officials. He later amended that disclosure three times, admitting more than 100 contacts from more than 20 countries.
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