#FakeNews Media Is Worried That President Trump’s Phones Aren’t Secure

I have to laugh at this entire piece, because the wannabes who wrote it probably voted for Hillary Clinton, the QUEEN of mishandling sensitive information.

Get a load of Politico’s headline: ‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security

I have so many snarky thoughts right now.

President Donald Trump uses a White House cellphone that isn’t equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications, according to two senior administration officials — a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance.

The president, who relies on cellphones to reach his friends and millions of Twitter followers, has rebuffed staff efforts to strengthen security around his phone use, according to the administration officials.

Interesting how concerned Politico is about security now, huh?

The president uses at least two iPhones, according to one of the officials. The phones — one capable only of making calls, the other equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites — are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency, an office staffed by military personnel that oversees White House telecommunications.

While aides have urged the president to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis, Trump has resisted their entreaties, telling them it was “too inconvenient,” the same administration official said.

Listen, if Trump said that, I totally disagree. He should heed their warnings and do whatever it takes to make sure he’s operating on a secure device. However, I don’t understand why members of MSM have a problem with this. Wasn’t it Hillary Clinton who said she used a personal email account for “convenience”? Liberals were VERY understanding of that, so surely they shouldn’t have a problem with Trump’s desire for the same. Right? Anyone? Bueller?

The White House declined to comment for this story, but a senior West Wing official said the call-capable phones “are seamlessly swapped out on a regular basis through routine support operations. Because of the security controls of the Twitter phone and the Twitter account, it does not necessitate regular change-out.”

Trump’s call-capable cellphone has a camera and microphone, unlike the White House-issued cellphones used by Obama. Keeping those components creates a risk that hackers could use them to access the phone and monitor the president’s movements. The GPS location tracker, however — which can be used to track the president’s whereabouts — is disabled on Trump’s devices.

The West Wing official refuted the idea that the presence of a camera and microphone on the president’s phone posed any risk, telling POLITICO, “Due to inherent capabilities and advancement in technologies, these devices are more secure than any Obama-era devices.”

You catch the drift. Politico is trying to make it sound like President Trump couldn’t care less about securing his devices. Meanwhile, these same piranhas relentlessly defended Hillary Clinton’s deliberate carelessness.

The White House is pushing back.

“The White House is confident in the security protocols in place for the President’s use of communications devices,” a senior White House official told ABC News.

“The president has accepted every device and process related to mobile phones recommended by White House Information Technology,” the official said.

There you have it. It sounds like Politico is trying to make something out of nothing.