Senate Democratic Chief Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) known as on the FBI Tuesday to conduct a counterintelligence risk evaluation of information related to convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein in an effort to decide whether or not a overseas actor may use them in opposition to President Trump or different outstanding Individuals.
“Whatever may be in the Epstein files is clearly troubling enough that Donald Trump doesn’t want to touch this issue with a ten-foot pole,” Schumer mentioned on the ground.
“So it’s natural to ask: what happens if America’s adversaries use cyber-attacks or other means to access investigative materials into Jeffrey Epstein that are embarrassing – or worse – for President Trump and the people around him?” Schumer mentioned
“What happens if Epstein materials end up in the hands of the Chinese government, or Russia, or North Korea?” he requested.
Schumer argued that until the Epstein information are launched and made absolutely clear to the general public, they might turn into compromising materials that overseas adversaries may use to “blackmail someone like the president” or different senior leaders in authorities.
Schumer needs the FBI to evaluate what danger can be posed if a overseas adversary had been to realize entry to data within the Epstein information.
He’s asking the FBI to find out if overseas intelligence businesses may achieve entry to the knowledge within the information by way of “cyber intrusion.”
He additionally needs the FBI to establish any vulnerabilities that might be exploited by overseas intelligence, reminiscent of “being able to gain leverage over Donald Trump, his family or other senior government officials.”
And he’s asking the nation’s high regulation enforcement company to “publicly show they are developing mitigation strategies to counter these threats and safeguard our national security.”
Trump mentioned Monday at a press convention in Scotland that he ended his friendship with Epstein greater than 20 years in the past after “he did something that was inappropriate.”
The president mentioned Epstein stole staff who had been working for him at Mar-a-Lago.
“He hired help and I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again,’” Trump advised reporters. “He stole people that worked for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it again, and I threw him out of the place, persona non grata.”
“I threw him out and that was it. I’m glad I did, if you want to know the truth,” he mentioned.
Trump additionally mentioned Monday that he turned down an invite from Epstein to go to his non-public Caribbean Island.
“I never went to the island and Bill Clinton went there supposedly” a number of instances, Trump mentioned in Scotland.
White Home Communications Director Steven Cheung mentioned final week that Trump “kicked” Epstein out of his membership years in the past for “being a creep.”
