U.S. President Donald Trump disputed the accuracy of a New York times report that China’s spies wiretapped calls he makes on unsecured iPhones after Beijing rejected the story as “fake news,” Bloomberg informed.
“The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it,” Trump said Thursday morning in a Twitter posting. “I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong!”
Trump’s comments came after Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying’s comment that “certain people in the U.S. are sparing no efforts to win the best screenplay award for the Oscars.” Hua did not directly address allegations the Times reported Wednesday – that Trump had disregarded warnings from his aides that China and Russia were wiretapping his conversations.
“This just provides more evidence of the New York Times creating fake news,” Hua said in Beijing, borrowing a favorite Trump attack line. She then offered a pointed pitch for Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese phone maker whose equipment has been shunned by the U.S. government over security concerns.
“If there are concerns about Apple calls being listened-in on, then you can change to Huawei phones,” Hua said.
Trump uses the iPhones to speak to “old friends,” and domestic spy agencies figured out that China intends to use all the information from the calls to keep the trade war with the U.S. from escalating. The agencies discovered the wiretapping from people inside foreign governments and through intercepting communications between foreign officials.
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