Suspicions

Did the Secret Service Catch a Chinese Spy in Mar-a-Lago?

Last month at President Trump’s Palm Beach golf resort, a Chinese woman breezed past layers of security, and told a receptionist that she was there for a “United Nations Friendship event” that did not exist. When authorities arrested Yujing Zhang on March 30, they discovered she was carrying four separate phones, one laptop, and a thumb drive. When a Secret Service agent plugged the suspicious Chinese national’s thumb drive into his personal computer (as one apparently does), it immediately started installing files.

Which is how we learned that Zhang entered Mar-a-Lago with malware in tow.

These are just a few of the revelations from Zhang’s appearance in federal court Monday. At a detention hearing arranged to determine whether Zhang should be released pending bond, prosecutors argued that she should be kept in jail while their investigation proceeds — even as they conceded that there is “no allegation that she is involved in any espionage.”