By Walter Cummings
Washington - Sen. Elizabeth Warren, (click here) a leading candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, sharply criticized Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday for attending a "secret dinner" with President Donald Trump.
"Amid antitrust scrutiny, Facebook is going on a charm offensive with Republican lawmakers," the senator from Massachusetts tweeted. "And now, Mark Zuckerberg and one of Facebook's board members – a major Trump donor – had a secret dinner with Trump. This is corruption, plain and simple."
Warren's tweet linked to an article from NBC News, which first reported Thursday that Zuckerberg joined Trump for a previously undisclosed dinner during his trip to Washington in October.
"As is normal for a CEO of a major US company, Mark accepted an invitation to have dinner with the President and First Lady at the White House," a spokesman for Facebook told USA TODAY in a statement, though he could not confirm when the dinner took place....
By Sarah Gray
Jared Kushner, (click here) President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House senior adviser, is under scrutiny from the House Oversight and Reform Committee, over his alleged use of the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp for official White House communication.
Trump's daughter and White House adviser, Ivanka Trump, and two former White House officials are also part of the inquiry.
A letter sent from the committee chairman Elijah Cummings to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone on Thursday — made public on Cummings' website — offers details about the allegations and requests documents from the White House in its probe of personal communication methods being used by "non-career" White House employees.
Cummings and the Oversight Committee are investigating violations of the Presidential Records Act as it pertains to Kushner's work in the White House....
