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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKushner claims "Guccifer400" demanded bitcoins in exchange for not publishing Trump's tax returns
The presidents son-in-law and White House senior adviser released an 11-page statement Monday morning ahead of his closed-door hearing with the Senate Intelligence Committee detailing his contacts with Russian officials during the campaign and transition.
Kushner denied colluding with Russian officials, but he disclosed one contact with a possible Russian hacker threatening to blackmail Trump over his unreleased tax returns.
There was one more possible contact that I will note, Kushner said. On October 30, 2016, I received a random email from the screenname Guccifer400. This email, which I interpreted as a hoax, was an extortion attempt and threatened to reveal candidate Trumps tax returns and demanded that we send him 52 bitcoins in exchange for not publishing that information.
Kushner said he brought the email to the attention of a U.S. Secret Service agent, who told him to ignore the message and not reply, and he said he never heard from the sender again.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/jared-kushner-reveals-how-russians-may-have-attempted-to-blackmail-trump-days-before-election/
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Kushner claims "Guccifer400" demanded bitcoins in exchange for not publishing Trump's tax returns (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jul 2017
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Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)1. This may be the only reason that Kushner is testifying
To block a request for tax returns.
emulatorloo
(44,071 posts)2. Ha ha.
Kaleva
(36,259 posts)3. Why would anyone open an email from someone named Guccifer400?
Unless you wanted a virus?