‘I Blame It On Minnesota’: Trump Contradicts US Officials Pointing to Iran Being Behind Cyberattack

President Donald Trump weighed in on the recent “coordinated cyberattack” on the water supplies of some 30 Minnesota communities earlier in the week during a Cabinet meeting on Friday. Trump oddly blamed Minnesota for the attack and dismissed the initial findings from state and federal officials that Iran may be behind the attack.

Trump opened Friday’s Cabinet meeting with some of his regular talking points, making bombastic claims about illegal immigration and the stock market.

“It’s almost hard to say because you’d say, is that even possible, to have 25 million people came in. We have no people coming in illegally through our southern border, and that’s in history. So think of that zero — a big, beautiful zero. The murder rate, so it’s the single largest drop ever recorded, to the lowest in 125 years. That goes back to — think of it — it goes back to 1900. Lowest murder rate in the history of our country. So that’s something,” Trump said as he pivoted to the cyberattack:

Today, I just want to mention that we heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack, and they blame it on Iran. I don’t think so. I think I blame it in Minnesota, because they’re grossly incompetent. There was a cybersecurity of 30 water plants, and I would blame it one Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, “Oh, it’s Iran.” Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.

Trump then pivoted again to the economy: “This month, it was announced that inflation is dropping at the fastest rate in more than six years. Walmart, Sam’s Club, Giant Eagle, and others are slashing prices by hundreds of grocery stores, and all of the stores — I mean, throughout the country — they’re slashing prices, something that you haven’t seen for a long time, since my last administration.”

“The stock market has set 73 all-time record highs since the election. That means all-time record highs, 73 days, out of a very short period of time, and the typical 401k is up by more than $30,000. And when you think of that, if you add another $1,000 to it, it will be — we set the record in the last administration, a record still standing. This administration is going to blow my last administration away,” he said as he continued his lengthy remarks.

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