12/22/2020

CYBERATTACK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[T]here is another challenge which my administration will confront on a bipartisan basis — the massive cybersecurity breach against U.S. companies and federal agencies.

There is still so much that we don’t know, including the full scope of the breach or the extent of the damage it has caused.

But we know this much — this attack constitutes a grave risk to our national security…

The attackers succeeded in catching the federal government off-guard and unprepared…

And the truth is that the Trump Administration failed to prioritize cyber security.

From eliminating and/or downgrading cyber coordinators at both the White House and the State Department, to firing his Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to President Trump’s irrational downplaying of the seriousness of this attack.”

-Joe Biden, “Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by President-elect Joe Biden in Wilmington, Delaware,” buildbackbetter.gov, Dec. 22, 2020