After facing heavy backlash from ant-Russia figures within both Republican and Democratic parties, US President Donald Trump has backtracked on his cyber security deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The fact that President Putin and I discussed a Cyber Security unit doesn’t mean I think it can happen. It can’t-but a ceasefire can,& did!” he tweeted on Sunday night.
The formation of an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” between the US and Russia was the more controversial outcome of Trump’s first meeting with his Russian counterpart, which also included a ceasefire deal in southwest Syria.
Trump announced both agreements in a series of tweets early Sunday, two days after the much-anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the annual G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
As expected, the cyber security deal did not go down well with Republican bigwigs such as Senator Lindsey Graham, who described the agreement as a “dumb” idea.
“It’s not…