Donald Trump ordered security clearance for Jared Kushner over objection of officials: report

President Trump ordered that senior presidential adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner be given a top-level security clearance.
A report in the New York Times citing four people who had knowledge of the matter said Mr. Trump demanded then-chief of staff John Kelly give Mr. Kushner top secret clearance in May, one day after the White House counsel recommended Mr. Kushner be denied.
Mr. Kelly wrote in memos that he had been “ordered” by the president to give Mr. Kushner the clearance. The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn, wrote that he and the CIA both had concerns with giving Mr. Kushner approval.
If true, the report refutes Mr. Trump’s statements made in January that he had no part in Mr. Kushner’s security clearance process.
In a statement to CNN, a spokesman for Mr. Kushner’s attorney Abbe Lowell refuted the claims made by the New York Times.