WASHINGTON _ Special counsel Robert Mueller found evidence that affiliates of the Russian government repeatedly sought the audience and favor of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest advisers, throughout the 2016 presidential campaign and its immediate aftermath.
But Mueller's documentation of those efforts, detailed in a 448-page, partly redacted report released Thursday, shows that Kushner rebuffed most of those overtures.
Communication records show formal and informal associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin pursued inroads with Kushner through a network of shared contacts. While Kushner acknowledged to investigators that he was seeking better relations with Moscow after Trump's November 2016 election, most Russian intermediaries failed in attempts to directly communicate with him, according to the report.
