President Trump received legal advice earlier this summer that Jared Kushner should step down from his White House role because of possible complications related to the Russia probe, it was revealed Monday.

Some of the president’s lawyers advised him in June that Kushner was a liability due to his entanglement with Russian officials and his omission of his meetings with them from his security-clearance forms, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The White House had even started to draft a statement for Kushner’s departure but Trump was convinced his son-in-law had done nothing wrong and should stay.