TECHNOLOGY: “Yes, we don’t want their [Huawei] equipment in the United States because they spy on us, and any country that uses it, we’re not going to do anything in terms of sharing intelligence. Absolutely, Huawei is a disaster. They used to have free reign over our country. They know everything — they knew everything we were doing.
Huawei is a way of — is really — I call it the spyway. What happens is Huawei comes out, and they spy on our country. This is very intricate stuff. You have microchips, you have things that you can’t even see, the average person and beyond the average person, the people that do this can’t even find it.
And I’ve gotten just about every country to drop it.”
-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Donald Trump Calls In to Fox and Friends for an Interview – August 17, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 17, 2020