Conflicts: Newspaper: China and Russia surprise Trump's calls on his mobile phone

As of: 25.10.2018 | Reading time: 2 minutes

CAccording to a newspaper article, Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies have reportedly intercepted mobile phone conversations with US President Donald Trump. The purpose of the spying was Trump's phone calls on his iPhone with friends and acquaintances, the New York Times reported, citing unnamed sources of government. Trump rejected the report as "boring" and "false".

He rarely uses a cell phone, Trump wrote Thursday in the Twitter short message service. "I like the landline." The mobile phone "rarely" used by him came from the government and had been "approved". The report was "just more fake news".

Members of Congress, opposition Democrats, however, called for an investigation into Trump's use of the cell phone. This poses his "personal comfort vis-à-vis the national security of America," tweeted Senator Jeff Merkley. It was necessary to know if Trump had divulged information clbadified secret. "The last thing we need is the president's threat against negligence, threatening national security," said Senator Mark Warner.

During the 2016 election campaign, Trump had strongly attacked her rival Hillary Clinton, as she had used in his time as Foreign Minister a private server and therefore not sufficiently protected to be communicated by e-mail.

However, according to the New York Times, Trump would have rebuffed employees' warnings in front of an eavesdropping on his mobile phone as president. They informed him of intelligence services provided by the intelligence services on the alleged spying on the cell phone. However, Trump still has not pbaded all calls on the secure White House fixed network.

By spying on Trump, the Chinese government had obtained information that he was influencing relations with Washington, especially in the trade dispute, the paper writes.

According to the Chinese intelligence services, lists have been drawn up with the names of the interlocutors of the American president. Subsequently, the services allegedly attempted to contact Trump's friends and acquaintances and persuade them to influence the President in the Chinese sense.

Like Trump, the Beijing and Moscow governments also rejected the New York Times report – in part with the same vocabulary. A spokeswoman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also accused the newspaper of broadcasting "Fake News". The newspaper apparently wanted to win the Oscar for Best Screenplay, said Hua Chunying.

"We are already dealing with this kind of stories with some sense of humor," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He accused the "New York Times" of a "decline of journalistic standards".