U.S. President Donald Trump, in his first comments about a widespread data breach across the U.S. government, Saturday downplayed the cyber espionage campaign and questioned whether Russia was to blame as alleged by his own top diplomat.
“The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality,” Trump said on Twitter on Saturday. “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’s assertion that China may be behind the hacking spree, which has so far affected more than a half dozen federal agencies includi…
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