Trump's misleading advertising campaign attacks Obama against Russian piracy

President Donald Trump's re-election campaign revealed in a new announcement that President Barack Obama had failed to counter Russian interference in the elections and that he was "just watching it" but the video misused the clip of Obama's most important computer advisor.

The two-minute ad includes a brief excerpt from former White House cyber coordinator Michael Daniel, informing the Senate Intelligence Committee that government retaliation plans "have been set aside," confirming an article from Yahoo News that Susan Rice, a former national security advisor, told Daniel, "Do not get ahead of us."

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But the advertisement implies that Daniel was referring to reaction measures in general, while Daniel's other comments at the hearing on June 20, 2018 clearly show that he was referring only to retaliatory measures.

At the hearing, Daniel told Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) that the National Security Council's cyber-team had simply "reoriented our focus" to give priority to "the protection of the state". "electoral infrastructure" and to "visibility" of Russia's actions.

He did not say that the NSC had stopped working on the issue.

Regarding Rice's decision to "suspend her activities," said Daniel, "the decision taken at that time was to reduce the number of people involved in developing our current response options," which means that this process has continued, but not with Daniel's team.

The new advertisement follows many reports that election security is a radioactive subject in the Trump White House, as the president associates it with questions about the legitimacy of its electoral victory. Experts have criticized the Trump administration for its lack of high level attention on the issue.