On 27 May 2017, Politico [http://www.politico.com] ran an article focusing on Jared Kushner’s alleged attempts to establish back-channel communications with Russia [http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/jared-kushner-russia-backchannel-protocol-238888] . The opening sentence of the article states that the attempts “would have been viewed as not