During an appearance on MSNBNC on Sunday, former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi was asked about Donald Trump and his family's embrace of crypto and he responded the timing is not coincidental.
Speaking with host Ali Velshi, the former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, claimed there is little to stop the Trump family from getting away with accepting bribes in the current atmosphere in Washington, D.C.
"We talk about espionage in terms of spies and classified information," host Velshi began. "But what happens when financial systems like unregulated markets, like crypto become this new battleground for influence operations? We're not built for this, we're not prepared for this. "
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"Yeah, we're not," the ex-FBI director replied. "And it's never been easier to try to get access to a president to try and bribe a president, because now the machinery of that is out in the open."
"I'm old enough to remember when corruption and espionage, like activities on the business-side happened in dark rooms, smoke-filled back rooms, dark restaurants. It's out in the open, and it's almost challenging for us to do something about it, daring us to to find a way to hold people accountable."
"The law has not caught.up with technology, with the financial world," he elaborated. "This is a constant game of trying to play catch up and in this environment, our elected legislators, because they align with the majority, align themselves with the man in the Oval Office, they're unlikely to go for anything that impedes the kind of corruption that can happen when you can literally buy access to the president."
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