Considerably more attention was paid to Kushner in the transcripts released by the House, where Simpson was asked if he had looked into Kushner's business dealings.
"SIMPSON: We did look at some Kushner stuff and specifically focused on the project in Jersey City, I think partly because Trump had a position in that project, and discovered that it was -- one of the central mysteries of Donald Trump is that, you know, beginning in the mid-2000s he was not a creditworthy businessman. And so he -- you know, so if you're analyzing, you know, someone who says they're a billionaire but can't get a bank loan, you know, there's this whole issue of where is the credit coming from. And so, you know, we were always trying to figure out where -- how he was financing various things.
"So anyway, we looked at this Jersey City project, and it was going to be financed by selling visas to foreign citizens who were seeking green cards from the United States."
The financial investigator also seemed to put a bit of a damper on the Javanka romance.
"SIMPSON: What we heard from people familiar with the story was that the Kushner family and their connections were a big attraction for Trump before the marriage and that, you know -- I mean, I don't want to -- I'm trying to be polite about it, but, I
mean, there was a business element to the whole, you know, connection."
Truly a match made in ... Deutsche Bank. Simpson also drew connections between Kushner's family and Russian connections that would later be used by Trump.
But again, Grassley isn't claiming that Kushner won't testify voluntarily because he is a is a money-laundering crook who has used his family wealth and social position to sell out the country in just about every way possible... nothing like that. He's just saying that Kushner won't appear because Dianne Feinstein, in releasing a transcript at the request of the witness, scared poor Jared. He's not a criminal. Just a coward.
As Grassley frets over the committee getting Kushner to sit down for questions, there is another option -- he could subpoena the witness to appear. But don't get in a hurry. Grassley is more concerned here with frowning at Feinstein than he is about whether or not the committee ever gets at the truth.
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