US President Donald Trump announces a plan to create a cybersecurity task force to prevent election meddling.
In a tweet, Trump says the joint venture will ensure that “election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.”
The announcement was met with ridicule by top Republican lawmakers.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “its not the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard, but it’s pretty close.”
Another Senate Republican, Marco Rubio of Florida, said on Twitter that “partnering with Putin on a ‘Cyber Security Unit’ is akin to partnering with Assad on a ‘Chemical Weapons Unit.'”
John McCain, his voice dripping with sarcasm, tells a CBS interviewer that he is “sure that Vladimir Putin could be of enormous assistance in that effort, since he’s doing the hacking.”
McCain chairs the Armed Services Committee, while Rubio sits on both the Foreign Relations and Intelligence Committees.
— with Agencies
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