Nothing makes me worry more about the SolarWinds hack than Trump now saying it’s ‘under control’
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It's going to be just fine." - President Donald Trump on COVID-19, January 22nd, 2020.
The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA." - Trump on COVID-19, February 24th.
It's incredible. But it's something that we have tremendous control over." - Trump on COVID-19, March 15th.
Here's Trump today, on the massive SolarWinds hack that targeted federal agencies and could have exposed 425 of the companies on the Fortune 500: I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control."
You don't say.
Here are a few perspectives on the SolarWinds hack from entities that do not currently have negative credibility: