The new White House Communications Director tried to float an “anonymously sourced” excuse about why Russia could not be behind the Hacking of the DNC. This rambling filibuster tried to breeze on by, Jake Tapper’s interview questions [Video]. Unfortunately for Scaramucci, Tapper was having none of it.
Tapper insisted on knowing more about the “source” for this millimeter-deep defense of Russia …
Scaramucci told CNN host Jake Tapper that Russian hackers are too skilled in hacking to be caught interfering in the election:
There’s a lot of disinformation out there. Somebody said to me yesterday, I won't tell you who, that if the Russians actually hacked this situation and spilled out those emails, you would have never seen it. You would have never had any evidence of them, meaning, that they’re super confident in their deception skills and hacking.
Tapper told Scaramucci: "I don’t know who this anonymous person is that said if the Russians had actually done it, we wouldn't be able to detect it."
"How about it’s the president, Jake," Scaramucci retorted. "I talked to him yesterday. [...]
— opposingviews.com [emphasis added]
Too bad the Administration lacks the same skills they blindly accept, AND REPEAT from Russia,
— you know, those about “not being caught”.
It should be a National Outrage, that Trump is accepting and then re-floating, the same “Talking Points” offered to him, by none other than Vladimir Putin himself.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Donald Trump during their meeting at the G-20 summit earlier this month that it couldn't have been Russia that hacked into the Democratic National Committee last year because Russian hackers were too good to get caught.
That is according to The New York Times' David Sanger, who reported Sunday that Trump emerged from the meeting telling his aides that Putin had offered "a compelling rejoinder: Moscow's cyberoperators are so good at covert computer-network operations that if they had dipped into the Democratic National Committee's systems, they would not have been caught."
In an interview with Reuters shortly after the two met, Trump alluded to Putin's comments: "Somebody did say" that if Putin did order the hacking, "you wouldn’t have found out about it," Trump said. Trump declined to say who that "somebody" was but called the idea "a very interesting point."
[...]
— businessinsider.com [emphasis added]
Talk about CYA … the question should be exactly whose ass is caught in that Russia Hackers are “too skilled to get caught” equation?
Putin’s … or his spokesman’s, Trump?