Trump Lifeless Silent as Secretary of State Blames Russia for Huge U.S. Authorities Hack

On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became the first official in the administration of President Donald Trump to hold Russia responsible for a massive and ongoing cybersecurity attack on the US government and private sector companies. Meanwhile, Trump has said little to nothing and has continued his long and suspicious pattern of never criticizing the Russian government.

The attack, carried out by the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (or SVR RF), hit the US Treasury, Commerce, Justice and State Departments, all five branches of the US military, the Pentagon, NASA, the Executive Office of the Presidents and the National Security Agency as well as the top 10 US telecommunications companies and other “consulting, technology, telecommunications, and oil and gas companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.”

The Russian state hackers achieved this by fixing vulnerabilities in Orion network monitoring software from SolarWinds, a US company that provides information technology monitoring and management tools, reports the Washington Post.

“This was a very significant effort and I think it is the case that we can now say quite clearly that it was the Russians who took part in this activity,” Pompeo said in a Friday interview with The Mark Levin Show “.

However, Trump informed Jack of the attacks while promoting the spread of the COVID-19 vaccine and continues to claim, without any legal evidence, that widespread electoral fraud resulted in him losing the presidential election.

Rather, Trump has claimed the cyber attack was not as bad as the media claim – he made the same allegation about the media’s treatment of the coronavirus. He has also said the attack may have originated in China and has targeted voting machines, although there is no evidence to support it either. These comments are literally everything he said on the subject.

“The problem is, there hasn’t even been a condemnation from above,” said Chris Painter, State Department cyber coordinator in the Obama administration. President Trump did not want to say bad things to Russia, which only encourages them to act irresponsibly in a variety of activities. [At the very least,] You want to clarify in order [Russian President Vladimir] Putin that this is not acceptable – the scope is not acceptable. “