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Trump Rejects Pompeo Over Russia and Hacking Attacks
Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 20, 2020 |
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump, Helsinki, July 16, 2018
UPDATE, 0825 GMT: The Associated Press reports that, as Donald Trump used a tweet to absolve Moscow of responsibility, White House officials were told to cancel a statement citing Russia as “the main actor” in cyberattacks.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, reflecting the views of US intelligence, declares that “we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians” behind the widespread hacking of US Government agencies and corporations.
But hours later, Donald Trump tweets that the “Cyber Hack” is a creation of the “Fake News Media”, maintains that China might be the culprit, and links the issue to his fraudulent claims of a rigged election.
Trump Contradicts Pompeo Over Russiaâs Role in Hack
Hours after the secretary of state said that Moscow was behind the vast cybersecurity breach, the president suggested it might have been China and downplayed the severity of the attack.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the White House last week. In an interview on “The Mark Levin Show,” Mr. Pompeo called the attack a “very significant effort.”Credit.Oliver Contreras for The New York Times
Published Dec. 19, 2020Updated Jan. 12, 2021
Hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told a conservative radio show host that âwe can say pretty clearly that it was the Russiansâ behind the vast hack of the federal government and American industry, he was contradicted on Saturday by President Trump, who sought to muddy the intelligence findings by raising the possibility that China was responsible.
This article has been corrected to show Richard Fisher s name and correctly state Melissa Francis previous speaking engagements.Â
The University of North Texas spent at least $691,095 to bring 14 different speakers to its Kuehne Speaker Series over the past seven years.
Speakers have included business magnates, Fox News personalities, military officers, authors, celebrity lawyers and members of President Donald Trumpâs inner circle.
The series is funded by private donors and sponsorships and was founded in 2013.
Contracts for all but two of the seriesâ speakers were obtained by the
Denton Record-Chronicle through the Texas Public Information Act.
A UNT spokesperson confirmed via email that Jerry Jones and T. Boone Pickens did not have contracts for the series because they were not paid for their speaking engagements.
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The US House foreign affairs committee criticised Turkey’s government on Wednesday, singling out six of Ankara s policies that “undermine the Nato alliance .
Departing Democratic committee chairman Eliot Engel and the leading Republican on the committee, Michael McCaul, expressed “grave concern” over relations with Turkey.
“While we continue to see real value in a strong US-Turkey relationship, its destabilising actions need to be more strongly addressed, they said in a joint statement. And the United States must work with its European and Nato allies and partners to continue to use all of the tools at their disposal to demand that Turkey reverse course.