The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, is returning from his first trip abroad since entering the White House.
As he met with world leaders, a federal investigation into his 2016 campaign's ties to the Kremlin officially reached his administration.
The leaks began as soon as he arrived in the Middle East, when it was announced that Trump had leaked classified information to senior Russian officials in the Kremlin.
In the meantime, information has arrived regarding Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and one of his main advisors. Kushner, who ran part of the Trump campaign, negotiated and participated in several meetings with Russian officials during the presidential campaign.
What is problematic, however, is that these contacts went one step further, and that Kushner allegedly did not disclose that he had met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian banker Sergey Gorkov, which is now being investigated by the FBI.
The meetings reportedly took place after Trump was elected president, and included Michael Flynn, the fired national security adviser who was fired over similar matters.
"They were meeting to establish a channel of communication," was the information published by the media citing sources from the White House.
Kushner allegedly told Russian officials that he wanted to establish a secret channel of communication between the Trump campaign and Moscow, the New York Times wrote.
The American services intercepted the conversations led by the Russian ambassador to the USA, Sergey Kislyak, who told his superiors that Kushner even suggested using the rooms used by Russian diplomats in the USA, so that they could talk safely and secretly.
It remains unclear whether it is possible that Russia was reporting the wrong information, because they knew that the channel was under surveillance by US services, which is standard Kremlin practice.
However, analysts indicate that Kisljak would have nothing to gain by that method. The allegations against Kushner are now on top of a mountain of accusations against the White House administration, which already has questionable credibility, especially among advisers.
"How could he trust the Russians that they wouldn't share that information with their own people," a security official commented to the Washington Post after the information was published. He called Kushner's idea either "extremely naive or completely crazy."
Newsweek questions whether Trump will be forced to fire Kushner, as in the case of Flynn, especially now that additional pressure has been created by the appointment of Robert Mueller as the chief investigator.
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