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Trump downplays Russian hack in first comments on massive breach, implicates China
NBC News ^ | December 19, 2020 | Lauren Egan

Posted on 12/19/2020 10:38:43 AM PST by Stravinsky

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump commented for the first time on Saturday on the hacking campaign that has torn through U.S. government and businesses that many experts believe is the work of Russian intelligence and downplayed the security breach as well as attempted to deflect blame away from Russia.

Trump's comments contradict what members of his own government have said about the hack and it is the latest example of his unwillingness to criticize Russia, which U.S. intelligence agencies have said interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump.

"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 wrote on Twitter.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: china; fakenews; lyingmedia; nbcfakenews; russia; russiarussiarussia; trump
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To: bigbob

And that silence is both deafening & implicating.


21 posted on 12/19/2020 12:26:22 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Stravinsky

NBC is the very definition of dishonesty!!!


22 posted on 12/19/2020 12:52:23 PM PST by elpadre
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To: romanesq

So do I. He made these comments to lay groundwork for whatever he is planning.


23 posted on 12/19/2020 1:00:28 PM PST by philippa
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To: McCarthysGhost

Another reason it’s time for martial law until this is throughly investigated. How do we know Hunter Biden was not in on this??


24 posted on 12/19/2020 1:06:20 PM PST by blackberry1
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To: Stravinsky

CIA


25 posted on 12/19/2020 1:07:10 PM PST by McGruff
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To: Stravinsky

I never thought it was Russia. Its China.


26 posted on 12/19/2020 1:10:06 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Stravinsky

Richard Grenell, Acting Director of the United States National Intelligence: “

Dems ‘hoodwinked’ US into thinking Russia bigger threat than China!”

Dec. 18, 2020 - 4:48 - Richard Grenell, Former acting director of national intelligence joins the next episode of ‘Life, Liberty & Levin’

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6216981529001#sp=show-clips


27 posted on 12/19/2020 1:16:54 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!! )
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To: Stravinsky

A hacking expert was on TV yesterday and he said he does not think Russia had a capability to do the massive and sophisticated hack that was done.


28 posted on 12/19/2020 1:19:42 PM PST by setter
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To: McCarthysGhost
Thanks for posting this wake up call and reality!:

Deep state always trying to cover for their Chinese masters

posted on 12/19/2020, 10:43:32 AM by McCarthysGhost (q)

29 posted on 12/19/2020 1:24:11 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!! )
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To: DesertRhino

DR, Great comparison and summation of the ChiComs versus Russia danger to us.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3917102%2C15

China is 10 times the economy of Russia and 50 times the threat of Russia. Russia basically wanted to be accepted into the western world as something other than an administrative district of the globalist project. Failing that they want to be left alone and not have us sending our perverted and atheist culture over. They basically want to act as an old fashioned nation state.

China on the other hand wants to penetrate and dominate EVERY aspect of our culture and economy. They are on a military building binge and have every intent of expansion by use of force.

But they are loved by most republicans, all democrats, all bureaucrats who envy the power, and the tech companies who fully support their invasive power over society.

Our government loves communist, alien, atheist China. And it hates Russia that is no longer communist, is mostly white in the power areas, and is rebuilding churches and suppresses homosexuality in society.

Trump is right.

15 posted on 12/19/2020, 11:52:24 AM by DesertRhino

https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3917102%2C15


30 posted on 12/19/2020 1:32:20 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!! )
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To: Stravinsky

WTH happened with Pompeo? (yes, it’s rhetorical) - no mention of the Chinese Communists?

Pompeo says Russia ‘pretty clearly’ behind massive cyberattack against U.S.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/pompeo-says-russia-pretty-clearly-behind-massive-cyberattack-against-us

“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,” he added.


31 posted on 12/19/2020 1:36:32 PM PST by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: DesertRhino
Good post. What I've been saying for years.

But too many FR’s have a hate syndrome they can't shake because and they don't subjectively think and reject the hoax that so crucially affects our foreign policy.

32 posted on 12/19/2020 1:40:44 PM PST by duckln ( )
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To: newfreep

That surprised me, coming from Pompeo. What does Russia have to gain from this “almost an act of war?” Very, very risky for Russia, or anyone except China.

China has bought or blackmailed the majority of US Government, ans many states. They are immune from serious retaliation, exceptnTrump. And the traitorous IC will never tell Trumpm it was china. “Muh Russia.” Yeah, right.


33 posted on 12/19/2020 4:32:46 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a Soros funded communist insurrection! )
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To: PIF

Just bizarre comments by Trump that do not match what Pompeo, Trump’s trusted SOS, has indicated. This has been a big problem in the administration from the get go. As everyone is not on the same page, it opens him to severe critism and gives his critics amo.


34 posted on 12/19/2020 4:43:07 PM PST by hawkaw
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