唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）今早在北约问题上引起争议的言论成为头条新闻，此前这位候选人告诉《****》，他不一定会为受到攻击的盟国辩护。但《****》今天公布的那次谈话的完整记录也显示，特朗普对一个有关网络攻击的问题作出了曲折的回应。特朗普说他完全支持“网络”，尽管从对话中还不清楚这到底意味着什么。

来自《****》：

[DAVID E.] SANGER: You've seen several [NATO members in the Baltics] come under cyberattack, things that are short of war, clearly appear to be coming from Russia.

TRUMP: Well, we're under cyberattack.

SANGER: We're under regular cyberattack. Would you use cyberweap*** before you used military force?

TRUMP: Cyber is absolutely a thing of the future and the present. Look, we're under cyberattack, forget about them. And we don't even know where it's coming from.

SANGER: Some days we do, and some days we don't.

TRUMP: Because we're obsolete. Right now, Russia and China in particular and other places.

SANGER: Would you support the United States' not only developing as we are but fielding cyberweap*** as an alternative?

TRUMP: Yes. I am a fan of the future, and cyber is the future.

《特朗普网络战手册》之前的条目包括早些时候与《****》的对话，内容大致相同：

SANGER: The question was about cyber, how would you envision using cyberweap***? Cyberweap*** in an attack to take out a power grid in a city, so forth.

TRUMP: First off, we’re so obsolete in cyber. We’re the ones that sort of were very much involved with the creation, but we’re so obsolete, we just seem to be toyed with by so many different countries, already. And we don’t know who’s doing what. We don’t know who’s got the power, who’s got that capability, some people say it’s China, some people say it’s Russia. But certainly cyber has to be a, you know, certainly cyber has to be in our thought process, very strongly in our thought process. Inconceivable that, inconceivable the power of cyber. But as you say, you can take out, you can take out, you can make countries nonfunctioning with a strong use of cyber. I don’t think we’re there. I don’t think we’re as advanced as other countries are, and I think you probably would agree with that. I don’t think we’re advanced, I think we’re going backwards in so many different ways. I think we’re going backwards with our military. I certainly don’t think we are, we move forward with cyber, but other countries are moving forward at a much more rapid pace. We are frankly not being led very well in terms of the protection of this country.

据信，美国实际上拥有强大的网络武器库，正如《大西洋月刊》在采访发表时指出的那样，尽管“难以想象的网络力量”更难以反驳。