Schumer Wants Ousted Secret Service Chief To Testify On Mar-A-Lago ‘Vulnerabilities’

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday called for ousted Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles to testify before Congress concerning what Schumer called “potential security vulnerabilities” at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club “and other counterintelligence and national security threats.”

Read Schumer’s statement below:

“The outgoing Secret Service director must testify before Congress as soon as possible about the potential security vulnerabilities at Mar-a-Lago involving a Chinese national arrested with malware, and other counterintelligence and national security threats. The public and Congress need to know the extent to which adversarial governments – like China – and their agents are attempting to gain access to, or conduct electronic surveillance on, conversations or other information regarding national security at President Trump’s properties.”

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  1. Trump gives an entirely new meaning to the term “counter-intelligence threat”.

  2. I’m going to guess that McConnell and Schumer have irreconcilable differences about the meaning of “as soon as possible.”

  3. This will come as a complete shock to the Trump White House, which thought they could just rub the Secret Service in the dirt a little for not taking the fall for the Mar-a-Lago shitfest. Can’t even plan zero steps ahead. Sad.

  4. Josh has a little item in the essay section on the left column…Trump tells agents to break the law (at the Border). Trump’s border between psychosis and reality may well have broken.

    Or will soon.

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