'This is like building an anti-terrorism task force with ISIS': Trump's 'cyber security unit' with Russia is attacked from all sides, as Democrats say 'we might as well mail our ballot boxes to Moscow'
Donald Trump has revealed US plans to form an 'impenetrable cyber security unit' with Russia, before again blaming Barack Obama for not stopping the Russian interference. Trump fired up his Twitter account on Sunday morning and sent out a series of statements about his meeting with Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, this week. 'I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I've already given my opinion.....,' he wrote. He then added: 'Putin & I discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.. ... and safe.' The tweets came after it was reported members of Trump's team - including Don Jr and Jared Kushner - met with a Russian lawyer in New York just weeks after he won the Republican nomination in June last year. Trump's plan ...has been roundly criticized by Democrats and Republicans..
U.S. officials say Russian government hackers have penetrated energy and nuclear company business networks.
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