Day 1,428: Russia suspected in massive cyberattack and Trump is totally silent

A “massive and growing cybersecurity breach” has affected numerous U.S. companies and critical federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Treasury Department, the Commerce Department and the National Institutes of Health.

Joe Biden spoke out forcefully about the attack, largely believed to have come from Russia according to remarks made by elected officials. Donald Trump, unsurprisingly, has remained silent about the cyberterrorism.

President Trump, by contrast, has said nothing about the hack affecting numerous federal agencies as well as U.S. companies. U.S. national security agencies are still assessing the scope and severity of the breach, which was discovered by a commercial firm.

The president’s silence about an organized attack on the U.S. government marks the latest example of his persistent reluctance to criticize Russia, which U.S. intelligence agencies have accused of interfering in the 2016 election to help Trump. Throughout his presidency, Trump has contradicted his own government’s findings about 2016 election hacking and disinformation efforts, and he has publicly accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s word that Moscow was blameless.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) called the White House’s silence “really quite extraordinary.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), after a briefing, noted the “seriousness and duration” of the attack, indicating the length of the invasion of critical U.S. departments.

The U.S. is being engaged in an act of war by a geopolitical foe. And befitting a very long pattern against the apparently offending nation, Trump is afraid to speak out or affirmatively act to protect the nation.

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