Twitter Flips Out Over Report on Chinese Spies Listening to Trump Calls: ‘Security Breach’
The New York Times dropped quite the bombshell tonight––that China and Russia are eavesdropping on President Donald Trump‘s cell phone calls––and Twitter flipped out over this stunning revelation:
There’s a phrase for this: security breach. https://t.co/FHfTab930N
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 24, 2018
this is fine. https://t.co/sZzkpydEEs pic.twitter.com/Jy9txPpIyd
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 24, 2018
On the other hand, Chinese intelligence is now intimately aware of the details of how they said we could never get to 270, they said they was no path, everybody on the fake news, but look at that beautiful map, it was the biggest landslide anyone has ever https://t.co/j8uz8qfoj1 pic.twitter.com/QAJkgv3blo
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) October 24, 2018
Seriously he should just make every single call on speakerphone on live TV.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 24, 2018
A bewildered mid-level Chinese signals analyst listening to an endless call where Trump recounts a particularly eventful night in with Don King in '92 and the CEO of Blackstone just nods along waiting for his chance to suggest we abolish the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 24, 2018
Ok, I know it's a serious national security issue, but this phone situation is also concurrently funny, even if it's sort of laughing to keep from crying, like a. https://t.co/FVk01QbfCZ pic.twitter.com/jJxyaOillh
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) October 24, 2018
BUT HER EMAILS ? https://t.co/ri0pLz6yku
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) October 24, 2018
The Chinese are listening into Trump’s phone calls, have made a list of the friends he trusts, and are now using said friends to (unwittingly) advance Chinese interests. Eye-poppingly insane spycraft made possible bc Trump wont give up…his iPhones. WHAT. https://t.co/uGsm55yKnn
— Alex Wagner (@alexwagner) October 24, 2018
But her e-mai—oh, nevermind… https://t.co/S1VQsVi4nm
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) October 24, 2018
Uh… that's not good. https://t.co/XMXt4bbAgU
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) October 24, 2018
President Trump continues to use an insecure iPhone, as the Chinese and Russians listen in, despite repeated security warnings. For all his complaints about Hillary Clinton's emails, he's a gift to foreign spies that keeps on giving. https://t.co/ZdYDGkO0or
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) October 24, 2018
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