Trump backs off proposed ‘cyber security unit’ he discussed with Putin

Published July 10, 2017 12:59am ET



President Trump nixed the idea of a “cyber security unit” between the Americans and Russians after tweeting about the idea Sunday during an early morning musing.

Earlier on Sunday, during a series of tweets recapping his trip to Hamburg, Germany and the G-20, Trump said he and Putin discussed forming a “impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded.”

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