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Trump Downplays Huge Hack, Floats China as Possible Culprit
Justin Sink, Bloomberg News U.S. President Donald Trump walks before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. Trump will attend the 121st Army-Navy Football Game at the United States Military Academy in West Point. , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of a massive cyber-attack targeting agencies across the U.S. government and suggested China, not Russia, may have been responsible.
In doing so in a pair of tweets on Saturday, the president contradicted assessments from senior officials within his own administration whoâve blamed Russia for the intrusion of at least half a dozen federal agencies including comments Friday night from Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
Watch Chairwoman Maloney s opening statement
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Would it take another Pearl Harbor to make you realize that China has declared war on the United States of America?
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WHAT WOULD CHINA HAVE TO DO BEFORE WE REALIZE WE ARE UNDER ATTACK?
I wasn’t around on December 7, 1941. I’m not quite that old. But I live in Hawaii and I have paid respects at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor many times. President Trump and First Lady Melania have also done so. I often see Pearl Harbor as I drive on the H-1 freeway from West O`ahu toward downtown Honolulu. I have watched the old black-and-white newsreels of the attacks by the Japanese zeros on that Date That Will Live in Infamy. Today Japan is no longer our enemy in the current era. But, the Chinese Communist Party is our enemy today. Note that I did not say that nearly 4.5 billion Chinese in China and many more around the world are our enemies because they absolutely are not. My dear wife from the Philippines has some Chinese ancestry. So do many of our closest friends. But t