Is anyone safe in Trump’s administration?

I’m not sure how it is with the BBC and Sky, but here in the United States the news channels prefer to cover a few stories obsessively rather than many stories thoroughly. Things have become even worse since Donald Trump was inaugurated, as that already-myopic keyhole view has narrowed into a monomaniacal focus on Russia. MSNBC and CNN discovered they could boost their ratings by catering to liberals with a 24-hour potboiler about Trump’s alleged collusion with the Kremlin, and proceeded accordingly. An establishment conspiracy industry took hold, detecting Russian fingerprints everywhere, led by your former MP Louise Mensch.

It was into this febrile atmosphere on Monday that Trump’s son-in-law and top confidante Jared Kushner sent his Senate testimony detailing what he knew about the Russians and when he knew it, which is to say, according to him, very little. Kushner—who somehow both operates in the shadows and yet has managed to become brand ‘Jared’—claims he never consulted with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential campaign, as has been reported, and offers phone records to back this up.