"Everything Is Under Control," Claims Trump - Putin Agrees

Putin and his most important asset.

On Friday, the Secretary of State admitted that Russian hackers had launched a massive assault on the United States.  Multiple government and commercial entities had their security breached and the nature and quantity of information stolen is so extensive that it may take months to determine what the Russians have taken and what access they still may have.

For months, Russian hackers have been racing around inside systems at the highest levels of the U.S. government, exploiting a weakness in “SolarWinds” networking software that went completely unnoticed until it was pointed out by a third party. Those hacks have included intrusions into systems that contain critical information about the nation’s power grid, as well as those having stewardship over the nuclear stockpile. 

So when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admitted on Friday that Russia was behind the widespread hacks, it should not be news. After all, this has been in the news for over a week. It affects at least half a dozen federal agencies. And there is no doubt about the origin of the attacks.

However, the main Russian government representative in the United States dismissed the Russian assault and blamed the "Fake News Media" for exaggerating the whole issue.  The President of the United States, who's 2016 election was aided by Russians hackers, completely dismissed the event.  

“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality,” Trump tweeted on Saturday morning. “I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because [US media] is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!)”

California Representative Adam Schiff called Trump out for his betrayal.

“Another day, another scandalous betrayal of our national security by this president.

“Another dishonest tweet that sounds like it could have been written in the Kremlin. Another obsequious display towards Putin. And yet another reason that Trump can’t leave office fast enough.”

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