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Jared Kushner Russia Collusion Speech refers to a series of image macros and online jokes about Jared Kushner's press conference regarding his involvement in the Russiagate scandal.

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On July 24th, 2017, President Donald Trump son-in-law and special counsel Jared Kushner held a press conference to publicly deny allegations that he colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 United States presidential election. The speech (video below) followed a meeting with the Senate Intelligence committee regarding his involvement with Russia.^[1]

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During the speech, people began making jokes about Kushner on Twitter. Most of the jokes, focused on the timbre of Kushner's voice as well as his milquetoast demeanor. Twitter user @BrendanHickey9 tweeted, "*Takes hit of helium from balloon* 'My name is Jared Kushner.'" The tweet (shown below, left) received more than 600 retweets and 2,700 likes in less than 24 hours.^[3] Twitter user @morninggloria tweeted, "I could probably grow a beard faster than Jared Kushner." The tweet (shown below, right) received more than 300 retweets and 2,700 likes.^[4]

Some users also made jokes about how Kushner reminded them of the Saturday Night Live character Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy, played by comedian Vanessa Bayer. Twitter user @JElvisWeinstein posted an image of the character with the caption "I did not collude with Russia." The tweet (shown below) received more than 650 retweets and 2,800 likes.^[10]

Later that day, people began sharing and adding captions to a photograph by Mark Wilson of Getty Image of Kushner during the speech.^[2]

Several media outlets covered the speech and the memes it spawned, including Teen Vogue,^[5] Elite Daily,^[6] The Mary Sue^[7] and more. Meanwhile, Twitter published two Moments pages on the speech. one on the content of the speech^[8] and the other on the memes.^[9]

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