Impotent Trump Won't Confront Putin about Hacking U.S. National Security Docs
Donald Trump was asked about if he would confront Putin about Russia hacking U.S. federal court filings and he shrugged it off, saying, "Are you surprised? That’s what they do.”
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Trump was asked about if he would confront Putin about Russia hacking U.S. federal court filings and he shrugged it off, saying, "Are you surprised? That’s what they do.”
Donald Trump is not concerned about the Russian hacking of sensitive U.S. national security information, as he shrugged it off as just something that happens during his press conference at the Kennedy Center.
A Trump-Putin visit looms on Friday as Russia is accused of infiltrating a U.S. Court. The meeting is to discuss the war in Ukraine at a military base in Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near downtown Anchorage.
Reporter: There's a new reporting that the Russians have hacked into some computer systems that manage U.S. federal court documents. I wonder if you've seen this reporting, and if you plan to bring it up with Putin when you see him later in the week.
Trump: I guess I could probably. Are you surprised? You know, if you surprised, they hack in. That's what they do. They're good at it. We're good at it. We're actually better at it. But no, I have heard about it. I've heard about it.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the president of the United States shrugging off any concern about his buddy President Putin might be behind the hacking into U.S federal court documents.
You see, while U.S. authorities suspect that Russian actors who are possibly affiliated with the Russian government have been hacking the electronic case filing system used by US federal courts, the president is not concerned at all.
The hacking involved a computer system that housed highly sensitive records about people charged with national security crimes:
“Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records with information that could reveal sources and people charged with national security crimes, according to several people briefed on the breach,” the New York Times reported.
Trump seems to be saying: They hack. It’s what they do. Hacking our national security information is just ‘locker room talk’. Boys will be boys. Hacking! It’s what they do. It’s just a hostile foreign nation hacking into the U.S. court system. They hack. We hack. It appears to be a continuation of similar intrusions detected since 2020.
In other words, do not ask this specific president if he is going to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin about this attack on the United States’ national security, because he is not.
Let’s face it, the last time Trump tried to play it tough in public about the Ukraine war, the Russian media mocked him because everyone knows TACO is not a strongman and he will not stand up to Putin.
Really, neither of these men qualify as a strongman, but at least Putin puts the work in to appear tough. He is not an international laughingstock like a certain U.S. president is right now. I’m not mentioning South Park, but I’m also not not mentioning South Park.
The Kremlin, for example, responded to Trump’s play at being tough by saying President Trump seemed to be suffering from “emotional overload.”
Putin hopes to push Trump into not backing off any pretense of not siding with Russia against Ukraine via mocking, which is a very good strategy on this president.
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Donald Trump likes to claim that Russiagate was a hoax. It was not. U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of 2017 concluded that Russia waged a campaign to influence the 2016 election, intending to damage Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump is still reeling from an Epstein stench that will not come off of him no matter how many FBI agents he uses to redact his names from the Epstein Files.
The Epstein Files Trump scandal is also potentially related to Putin’s visit and Donald Trump’s weakness in the face of Putin, as Russia is known for collecting kompromat on people.
An example of this is claims by a royal biographer that Putin has Epstein’s recordings of Prince Andrew. Recordings from Epstein’s home were given to the Kremlin, Andrew Lownie alleged in an interview with Times Radio:
Russia Gate was not a hoax. They really did want to help get Donald Trump elected in 2016 — not because they are huge supporters of Donald Trump, but because no one can or will destroy the United States faster or better than Donald Trump.
The United States under Donald Trump is Vladimir Putin’s fever dream. It is easy propaganda about the failure of western democracy. It shows a failed state. It shows a divided, angry, violent country of miserable people being starved by their government. In other words, it reflects enough of Russia to make Russia look better to its own citizens.
Donald Trump’s United States tells the suffering people under autocrats, ‘Hey, there is nothing better out there. Settle for the dictator, because look at how horrible “democracy” is.’
And that is why Donald Trump is so useful to Putin. Donald Trump makes democracy look bad, because he does not respect the U.S. Constitution, freedom, or liberty.
Dereliction of duty is a phrase describing a president's failure to fulfill their constitutional obligations, especially in protecting the nation. A president can be derelict in his duties by inaction or an inadequate response to threats.
Once again, the question of Donald Trump standing down to Russia as it attacks the United States is surfacing. Is Trump derelict in his duties to the U.S. by ignoring Russian hacking into our national security documents?
If nothing immediately comes of it, it will be forgotten in the piles of Trump scandals. But one day, the information Russia got will cause harm to the U.S. or our troops or intelligence agents. And Donald Trump will be on record as having done nothing about it but shrug.
They hack, it’s what they do. And Donald Trump is telling us he is impotent to stop them and so won’t even bother to confront Putin about it.
Release the Epstein Files.
What do you think about Trump’s response to Russian hacking? Share your opinion in the comments below.
He IS impotent...in more ways than one. He's a weak, bloviating, cowardly, demented degenerate.
He is a traitor to the US but he is not the only one. All the people who have supported his rise and election and who now support what he is doing are also traitors. They know who he is and the danger he presents but they do nothing.