Trump suggested a cybersecurity pact with Russia. Lawmakers say they were ‘dumbfounded.’

The following article by Cleve R. Wootson, Jr., was posted on the Washington Post website July 9, 2017:

On Sunday morning, President Trump spoke of his new alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin to erect an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.”

This, the president tweeted at 7:31 a.m., came after Putin “vehemently denied” interfering with the 2016 U.S. election.

The tweet’s timing could not have been more perfect — for congressional critics of Trump’s new plan. Continue reading “Trump suggested a cybersecurity pact with Russia. Lawmakers say they were ‘dumbfounded.’”