“There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election,” he wrote on Twitter in his latest iteration of that unfounded conspiracy theory. He tagged Pompeo, the latest Cabinet member to anger him, in his Twitter post. So, in the midst of a pandemic, Biden will inherit a government so laced with electronic tunnels bored by Russian intelligence that it may be months, years even, before he can trust the systems that run much of Washington. In contrast to Trump, who has always been reluctant to confront Moscow and President Vladimir Putin, Biden has signaled that he will not let the intrusion, whose full extent is not yet known, go unanswered. “A good defense isn’t enough,” Biden said Thursday, vowing to impose “substantial costs on those responsible for such malicious attacks.”© 2020 The New York Times Company

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