This was predictable....
Per: The Hill.com
"Trump downplays impact of hack, questions whether Russia was involved"
by Tal Axelrod ... December 19, 2020 - 11:44 AM EST
President Trump on Saturday downplayed the impact of a sprawling hack on a litany of government agencies, defying officials' assessments of its extent while questioning their conclusion that Russia was behind the attack.
In two tweets Saturday morning, Trump used his first public remarks on the cyber intrusion to dismiss the severity of the hack while asserting that the media was playing it up to hurt him. The comments directly contradicted government officials and outside experts who said the attack, which hit the departments of Energy, Homeland Security, State and Treasury and more, was one of the broadest cyber attacks in recent memory.
"The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of... discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!), " Trump tweeted.
"There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA," he added, echoing his claims that widespread voter fraud and irregularities kept him from winning a second term.
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To the bitter end, Trump will protect and defend his bestie, Vladimir Putin. For what it's worth, Donald Trump's own Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, strongly disagrees with every aspect of Trump's assessment of this recent cyber attack ....
"This was a very significant effort, and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity," Pompeo said in an interview Friday on "The Mark Levin Show"
Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, further added:
"Suffice it to say, there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. government systems and it now appears systems of private companies and companies and governments across the world as well." Pompeo said.
Microsoft president Brad Smith, said this: "The latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical institutions, including security firms."
Once again, President Donald Trump cares much more about protecting his ego and defending Russia, then he ever will in protecting the United States from attack. This is the most serious cyber-attack against the United States of America in history. Does our President care? Sure, he cares... about Russia.