The Senate's leading Democrat is set to tee up the latest twist in the saga of the secret files of former financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer plans to call for an FBI investigation Tuesday into whether foreign governments are trying to use the Epstein files against U.S. President Donald Trump.
Democrats have seized on Trump's reluctance to release the files as a political vulnerability, but this latest move by Schumer is an attempt to elevate the scandal to having potential national security implications.
Per Politico's Playbook, Schumer will call for a 'risk assessment to examine whether foreign countries might have tried to access the Epstein files and possibly use the information therein as leverage over Trump.'
At a press conference during his trip to Scotland on Monday, Trump said that all of the hubbub about the files was a 'hoax', while also noting that the 'files were run by sick, sick people' during the last administration who can 'put things in the file that was a fake.'
