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| ‘Treason!’ Trump slams NYT claim of US cyber attacks on Russia’s power grid as harmful fake news | |
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| Following a bombastic report that US government hackers are targeting Russia’s power grid, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to accuse the NY Times of spreading fake news detrimental to US credibility and national security. | |
| “This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our Country…” Trump tweeted on Saturday evening, before realizing that he forgot to actually dismiss the report of Washington increasingly targeting Moscow in cyber-warfare campaign as “fake news.” | “This is a virtual act of Treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our Country…” Trump tweeted on Saturday evening, before realizing that he forgot to actually dismiss the report of Washington increasingly targeting Moscow in cyber-warfare campaign as “fake news.” |
| “.....ALSO, NOT TRUE!” he added in a follow-up tweet, without specifying whether the report was untrue in its entirety – or just the specifics like the targets of US cyber offenses or their intensity. | “.....ALSO, NOT TRUE!” he added in a follow-up tweet, without specifying whether the report was untrue in its entirety – or just the specifics like the targets of US cyber offenses or their intensity. |
| The US leader also stopped short of explaining what exactly he believes constitutes a treason – the mere fact that the paper unveiled Washington’s presumably top secret operation, or that the revelation might further erode the US image of the world’s moral beacon. | The US leader also stopped short of explaining what exactly he believes constitutes a treason – the mere fact that the paper unveiled Washington’s presumably top secret operation, or that the revelation might further erode the US image of the world’s moral beacon. |
| An in-depth yet frustratingly empty on details report on Saturday, the New York Times treated its readers to a carousel of security officials talking up their “aggressive” posture, including one faceless intelligence spook who bragged “we are doing things at a scale we never contemplated a few years ago.” Now just imagine the media hysteria if it were the other way around... | An in-depth yet frustratingly empty on details report on Saturday, the New York Times treated its readers to a carousel of security officials talking up their “aggressive” posture, including one faceless intelligence spook who bragged “we are doing things at a scale we never contemplated a few years ago.” Now just imagine the media hysteria if it were the other way around... |
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