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It’s no secret that Donald Trump won’t go down as the most tech-savvy man of his day, but some of the things he has said about technology, the internet and cyber attack are down right mind boggling.
Here is a list of the top 3:
1. Trump responds incoherently to debate question from Lester Holt
“As far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what Secretary Clinton said. We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not. I don’t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don’t — maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay?
You don’t know who broke in to DNC.
But what did we learn with DNC? We learned that Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of by your people, by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Look what happened to her. But Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of. That’s what we learned.
Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don’t know, because the truth is, under President Obama we’ve lost control of things that we used to have control over.
We came in with the Internet, we came up with the Internet, and I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what [the Islamic State] is doing with the Internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS.
So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is — it is a huge problem. I have a son. He’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it’s hardly doable.
But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester, and certainly cyber is one of them.”
2. March 3016, Donald Trump vomits words when asked question about cyberwar by NY Times
Donald Trump has been know for his incoherent babbling but this one might take the cake. I defy you to make sense of any of this.
You can find the entire interview with the New York Times here. Here is the relevant excerpt:
“First off, we’re so obsolete in cyber. We’re the ones that sort of were very much involved with the creation, but we’re so obsolete, we just seem to be toyed with by so many different countries, already. And we don’t know who’s doing what. We don’t know who’s got the power, who’s got that capability, some people say it’s China, some people say it’s Russia. But certainly cyber has to be a, you know, certainly cyber has to be in our thought process, very strongly in our thought process. Inconceivable that, inconceivable the power of cyber. But as you say, you can take out, you can take out, you can make countries nonfunctioning with a strong use of cyber. I don’t think we’re there. I don’t think we’re as advanced as other countries are, and I think you probably would agree with that. I don’t think we’re advanced, I think we’re going backwards in so many different ways. I think we’re going backwards with our military. I certainly don’t think we are, we move forward with cyber, but other countries are moving forward at a much more rapid pace. We are frankly not being led very well in terms of the protection of this country.”
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3. July 2016, AGAIN Donald Trump vomits words when asked question about cyberwar by NY Times
The full interview can be read here. But here the exchange in question. Do you understand what he is talking about?
David Sanger: You’ve seen several of those countries come under cyberattack, things that are short of war, clearly appear to be coming from Russia.
Donald Trump: Well, we’re under cyberattack.
Sanger: We’re under regular cyberattack. Would you use cyberweapons before you used military force?
Trump: Cyber is absolutely a thing of the future and the present. Look, we’re under cyberattack, forget about them. And we don’t even know where it’s coming from.
Sanger: Some days we do, and some days we don’t.
Trump: Because we’re obsolete. Right now, Russia and China in particular and other places.
Sanger: Would you support the United States’ not only developing as we are but fielding cyberweapons as an alternative?
Trump: Yes. I am a fan of the future, and cyber is the future.
4. “I don’t do the email thing”
In another interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump yet again showed himself to be a luddite.
“Does your secretary send emails on your behalf?” he was asked.
His secretary generally typed letters, Mr. Trump said. “I don’t do the email thing.”
By 2013, Mr. Trump was still not sold on email. “Very rarely, but I use it,” he said under questioning.
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