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China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report (thehill.com)
Rick Zeman writes: According to The New York Times, the Chinese are regularly listening to Donald Trump's cellphone calls (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). While he has two NSA-hardened iPhones, and a secure landline, he insists on using a consumer-grade iPhone -- even while knowing he's being eavesdropped upon -- because it has his contact list on it. "White House officials say they can only hope he refrains from discussing classified information when he is on them," reports the New York Times. But, officials were also confident that "he was not spilling secrets because he rarely digs into the details of the intelligence he is shown and is not well versed in the operational specifics of military or covert activities"; in other words, security through ignorance. The article mentions the rationale is to be able to listen to his calls to find out what and whom influences him, and that the Russians also listen in, albeit with less frequency because of his unique relationship with Vladimir Putin.
Far from being the sharpest tool in the shed
Stupid people don't win the presidency over the opposition of every 'elite' in the world - including most of his own party's leaders - and then go on to lead the most active and productive administration in recent memory.
In any case, the "Person had an opportunity to do bad thing, therefore Person did the bad thing" fallacy is ironic coming from someone calling others stupid. If he was half as dumb and careless as you think he is he'd be blurting out nuclear secrets at every campaign rally.
President Trump uses two phones, just like President Obama did. Just like I said - this is no different, but for some reason we have to attack because Trump. And we can't bring up these facts because they don't play to the agenda of attacking the President (yes, this IS, in fact, fake news in that it is nothing different than the previous Administration).
This is an unsubstantiated hit piece NYT article from Maggie Haberman, who teed up story after story for Hillary Clinton. How objective is she, given she worked hand-in-hand with the Clinton campaign?
This is a pure political hit-piece trying to drum up anything they can to affect the November elections. You want to talk about collusion and meddling? Look no further than "articles" like this...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
I already commented, but mod Cederic up on that post. NYT has an article from 2009 talking about how Obama refused to give up his Blackberry and fought tooth and nail to keep it. GW Bush on the other hand was said to have sent essentially a farewell email to many friends upon taking office.
Trump is literally just copying Obama on this one.