Obama: If Republicans really cared about Clinton’s emails they would be ‘up in arms’ over Trump’s iPhone

Former President Obama says that if Republicans were truly concerned about the security risks posed by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, “they’d be up in arms” over reports that President Trump is still using unsecured iPhones.

“In the last election it was Hillary’s emails. ‘This is terrible.’ ‘Hillary’s emails!’ We were hearing Hillary’s emails everywhere,” Obama said Friday at a campaign rally in Milwaukee.

“They didn’t care about emails. And you know how you know? Because if they did, they’d be up in arms right now as the Chinese are listening to the president’s iPhone that he leaves in his golf cart,” he continued. “It turns out, I guess it wasn’t that important.”

“They didn’t care about [Hillary Clinton’s] emails. And you know how you know? Because if they did, they’d be up in arms right now as the Chinese are listening to the president’s iPhone that he leaves in his golf cart. It turns out, I guess it wasn’t that important,” Obama says. pic.twitter.com/RVH7rLAK6M

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) October 26, 2018

{mosads}The New York Times reported Wednesday that Russia and China are eavesdropping on Trump’s personal phone, which he still uses despite repeated requests from national security officials that he stick to more secured landlines.

A day later, NBC News reported that officials are increasingly concerned that Trump is using unsecured cellphones to discuss sensitive matters with informal advisers.

Trump pushed back against the Times’s report on Thursday, calling it “soooo wrong” in a tweet.

The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2018

Obama made his remarks while headlining a campaign rally for Wisconsin state Superintendent Tony Evers, who is running to unseat Republican Gov. Scott Walker, and Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who faces GOP challenger Leah Vukmir.