Criticism piles on for Trump's Russia cybersecurity proposal

John McCain on CBS

President Trump's plan "to move forward in working constructively with Russia" by "forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit" with the Kremlin to secure American elections came under broad criticism Sunday after early slams from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) joked in a CBS appearance that Russian President Vladimir Putin could be of "enormous assistance" in improving America's voting cybersecurity "since he is doing the hacking."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.