President Donald Trump’s son-in-law says he received a “random email” during the presidential campaign from someone claiming to have Trump’s tax returns and demanding ransom to keep the information secret.
Jared Kushner says he interpreted the email as a hoax. Kushner says the email came from a person going by the name “Guccifer400.” The name is an apparent reference to Guccifer 2.0, an anonymous hacker who has claimed responsibility for breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s computer systems.
Kushner says the emailer demanded payment in Bitcoin, an online currency. Kushner says he showed the email to a Secret Service agent, who told him to ignore it. Kushner disclosed the details of the email ahead of a closed-door interview Monday with a Senate committee investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.
I’m having a hard time believing any Secret Service agent would not recommend Kushner give that email to the FBI and let them decide what, if anything to do about it.
I don’t think there is anything here as far as criminality on the part of Kushner, it’s just another very odd thing.
Also, what is up with this family routinely throwing the SS under the bus?
Exactly, trashing the SS folks dedicated to saving your life seems a tad short-sighted…
But then again, we’re talking the Drumpf Crime Family here…
Lets assume that this did happen. Guess what that means?
Kushner is going to have to turn over all his emails, including that one, to the FBI for investigation.
Which would be precisely why he didn’t reveal this to the FBI when it happened. The fact he is bringing it up now indicates that he thinks he has successfully scrubbed his emails.
The problem for him with this theory is… the “he thinks” part.
Koshner is compromised, whether he or they realize it or not.
And that resonates right up and through the White House. If Kosh can be leveraged that affects those around him and vice versa because those around him can be leveraged as well.
They all have been sucked into the Russian meat grinder and the crazy part is, they did it willingly and with malintent.
There has to be more to it than that. How may bogus “threat” emails do you think get sent to this crew? (Hell, I am absolutely nobody and I have been threatened with “extortion” several times over things that were laughably bogus. This is the new wave of scamming after the Nigerian prince found someone to hide his fortune with.)
Down the road we will likely discover significantly more communication involving this “random” source.