US President Donald Trump has criticized the mainstream US media, saying it has been inflated more than it actually is in connection with the recent hacking of major government agencies.
In particular, even the heads of the competent agencies, such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have been controversial as they even mention that Russia is the backbone of the hacking.
President Trump posted on Twitter on the 19th (local time), saying, "Cyber hacking is much bigger in fake news media than it really is," he said. "I've been fully reported and everything is well under control."
"Russia, Russia and Russia are the top slogans when something happens," he argued. "Mostly for financial reasons, Lamestream (media) is afraid to talk about the possibility of China."
It is a perception that the hacking of government agencies, which is being revealed from Russia, is being exaggerated by the mainstream US media, and that they are unconditionally overrun from Russia.
Furthermore, it has even put forward a conspiracy theory that China may be behind the hacking, but the mainstream US media, which depends on Chinese capital, is reluctant to talk about it.
'Lamestream' is a compound word of'lame' and'mainstream' in English, meaning'limping' and'mainstream', respectively, and is an expression that Trump uses to insult the mainstream media.
Even in this presidential election, when most media predicted Biden's victory, he complained, "When did Lamestream Media call the next president?"
President Trump's tweet from Russia goes head-to-head with Pompeo's comment that Russia is behind the hack.
According to the Washington Post (WP) and the political media The Hill, Secretary Pompeo said in an interview on the radio broadcast'Mark Levin Shaw' the previous day that Russia is the backbone of large-scale cyber espionage activities against the federal government and the private sector.
"I can't say more because we're still analyzing and some of them are confidential," he said, "but there has been considerable effort to use third-party software to plant code inside US government systems, and it looks like it's seen in private companies and government systems around the world."
"It was a very remarkable activity, and I can say quite clearly that it was the Russians who were involved in it."
The Hill said, "When President Trump questioned the conclusion that Russia was behind the hacking attacks, he ignored the assessment of the authorities and neglected the effects of the hacking."
Earlier, the US media reported that key US ministries such as the State Department, the Treasury, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, as well as private companies such as Microsoft, are getting out of control as they have been penetrated by hacking attacks known to be behind Russia.
The Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Bureau (CISA) under the Ministry of Homeland Security said in a warning notice on the 17th that the hacking was confirmed to have started in March at the latest, and Minister Pompeo picked up Russia behind it the day before and released it.
President Trump's Dudun of Russia follows a pattern he has been wary of criticizing Russia for cyber threats, Durhill analyzed.
President Trump has denied allegations that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election to aid his camp, and sometimes dismissed the overwhelming US intelligence agency's opinion that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the plot, Thehill said.
Meanwhile, President Trump continued to insist on false elections that day and ordered the Republicans to fight to the end.
"He (Biden) didn't win the election," he said in a tweet. "They threw hundreds of thousands of votes in every state and got caught."
He also said, "Now Republican politicians have to fight in order not to be robbed of a great victory. Don't be a weak fool."
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