Trump and Putin unironically discussed forming a 'cyber security unit'
It's Sunday morning, so you know where this is going.
President Trump today fired off a series of tweets about his July 7 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin -- their first face-to-face meeting since Trump took office. Trump said he "strongly pressed" Putin about Russia's meddling in U.S. elections and that the Russian leader "vehemently denied" any interference.
SEE ALSO:Hackers have been breaking into U.S. power plant networks, including a nuclear facility, since MayU.S. intelligence agencies and even Trump administration officials maintain that Russia did, in fact, meddle in the 2016 presidential elections, with a clear preference for Trump. But that apparently wasn't enough to dissuade Trump from mulling the creation of an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit" with Russia.
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Steven Mnuchin, the secretary of the Treasury, first disclosed the initiative on Saturday as Trump returned from the G20 summit in Germany.
"After a very substantive discussion on this, they reached an agreement that they would start a cyberunit to make sure that there was absolutely no interference whatsoever, that they would work on cybersecurity together," Mnuchin told reporters from aboard Air Force Once.
The notion of a U.S.-Russia cyber security team prompted scorn and snark aplenty on Twitter.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), who competed with Trump in the 2016 presidential race, said partnering with Putin was akin to partnering with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has repeatedly used chemical weapons to attack his people.
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Other users took a less extreme approach to their simile game:
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Still more commenters invoked cultural references to describe the bizarre idea of partnering on cyber security with Russia, a country accused of meddling in the U.S. elections but also U.S. nuclear power plants.
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It's unclear whether or how such a cyber security initiative will actually come to fruition. But it's safe to say it might not be the world's best idea.
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