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bigtree

(94,672 posts)
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:13 PM Jul 2025

Whatever's in the Epstein files that has Donald running scared, foreign adversaries could use as blackmail

Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer
BREAKING: I'm fighting for the @FBI
to conduct a counterintelligence threat assessment to determine the risk posed if a foreign adversary were to gain access to the Epstein files.

Whatever is in the Epstein files is clearly concerning enough that Donald Trump is running scared.

Our adversaries could try to use it to gain influence and hurt America and Americans.



...which is why you shouldn't let a convicted felon/rapist into the White House, or anywhere near our government leadership.




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Whatever's in the Epstein files that has Donald running scared, foreign adversaries could use as blackmail (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2025 OP
Who says they aren't? nt Phoenix61 Jul 2025 #1
The current fbi? I would not hold my breath. niyad Jul 2025 #4
"They" refers to foreign adversaries Dave says Jul 2025 #7
So you know what poster 1 intended? Because that statement could niyad Jul 2025 #9
And maybe have been for awhile like back into his first term. More skeletons than fit in the closet... dutch777 Jul 2025 #5
It isnt clear that you need to blackmail Trump Johonny Jul 2025 #2
Way recommended. H2O Man Jul 2025 #3
Could? Kid Berwyn Jul 2025 #6
Hard to imagine what could compromise Trump's image leftstreet Jul 2025 #8

Dave says

(5,468 posts)
7. "They" refers to foreign adversaries
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:56 PM
Jul 2025

Not our FBI, although they may be doing more harm (for all I know) than any foreign adversary these days.

niyad

(134,034 posts)
9. So you know what poster 1 intended? Because that statement could
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 09:00 PM
Jul 2025

be read to refer to either. I admire your perspicacity.

dutch777

(5,107 posts)
5. And maybe have been for awhile like back into his first term. More skeletons than fit in the closet...
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:42 PM
Jul 2025

probably.

Johonny

(26,606 posts)
2. It isnt clear that you need to blackmail Trump
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:31 PM
Jul 2025

The playbook seems to be to give him show pieces, unfelt praise, massaged ego, and tell him what he wants to hear . . . Then do whatever. He isn't policy driven or goal oriented.

Basically you can go a long way telling him he's so much smarter than Obama or Biden and he's so tough a negotiator . . . Then make up a number you're going to invest and pretend you have a deal that isn't signed and no one will be held to.

leftstreet

(41,253 posts)
8. Hard to imagine what could compromise Trump's image
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 05:57 PM
Jul 2025

Video of him fucking disabled squirrels and then frying them up for dinner?



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