President Trump continues to use his iPhone despite that Russia and China are both listening in. Bush-43’s top information officer calls this “the most significant White House communications breach in history.” Very ironic since Clinton’s lax security was a major campaign issue in 2016.
This is old news but Trump’s continued malfeasance with his phones has made the news recently. I don’t see a thread on the topic.
That would be a really stupid thing to do. Unlike other government officials, and even cabinet members, there is no official policy or regulation controlling phone use by the president.
There are so many other, better things to investigate Trump for. No need to dilute the effort and taint the important stuff.
Even if he repeats the same stupid shit in private, they’ll still learn something, namely that being a fucking moron isn’t an act. Would help them quite a bit in negotiations.
Access to the head of state’s private conversations is the type of thing millions of dollars are spent on and people risk their lives for.
Maybe he’s playing 8-dimensional checkers and this is part of a disinformation campaign in which he uses an insecure iPhone to “leak” false information to our adversaries, and spreads news of his buffoonery in order to make sure they’re listening.
Letting the Russians tap his phone directly avoids the need to make additional calls to check in with the boss, thus saving time that can be used for golfing or Twitter-trolling.
Why? He violates their terms of service. Twitter acknowledges that, but choose to ignore it. If they didn’t ignore it, they would be absolutely justified in banning him.