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>>22538080 [LB]
US taxpayers are paying for it all.
Paris accord = scam (trillions)
Red Cross = scam (billions)
Foreign Aid = scam (trillions)
WAR = scam (trillions)
………on…and….on……..
Who audits where the money actually goes?
Who actually receives the money?
The US taxpayer is funding the very people we are engaged in taking down.
Slush funds everywhere.
Think GS pays for Antifa out of his own pocket?
The hole is deep.
Feel sick yet?
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>Anon, your post lends new meaning to the phrase, "the hole is deep".
Donald Trump 's Battle With The US Media
US president Donald Trump has long had an antagonistic relationship with mainstream news outlets, deriding them as the "enemy of the people."
Agence France-Presse
World News
Feb 08, 2025 15:27 pm IST
Washington, United States: Armed with multimillion-dollar lawsuits and regulatory threats, Donald Trump is taking his long-standing battle with the US media to a new level – targeting the finances of organizations already struggling in an increasingly tough commercial climate.
The president has long had an antagonistic relationship with mainstream news outlets, deriding them as the "enemy of the people." A notable exception is the powerful conservative broadcaster Fox News, some of whose hosts have taken on major roles in his administration and where his daughter in law Lara Trump is set to start as a primetime host.
Trump now appears to be doubling down on his anti-media rhetoric in his first month in office, focusing on cutting government agencies' news subscriptions in what observers call a case of manufactured outrage.
News outlet Politico was at the center of a social media storm, with Trump supporters including Elon Musk posting screenshots that falsely purported to show more than $8 million was funneled from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the site.
The humanitarian agency has been the target of a sweeping cost-cutting campaign by billionaire Musk, a key Trump advisor, with the president calling for its closure.
Records on USAspending.gov, an online tracker of government payments, showed that federal agencies paid about $8 million to Politico for subscriptions, including to its Politico Pro service.
Payments from USAID were a small fraction of that total, the records showed.
But the facts did not stop Trump from falsely claiming that billions of dollars from USAID and other agencies had improperly gone to the "fake news media as a 'payoff' for creating good stories about the Democrats."
"We have never received any government funding – no subsidies, no grants, no handouts," Goli Sheikholeslami, Politico's chief executive, and John Harris, its editor-in-chief, wrote in a note to readers.
"Government agencies that subscribe do so through standard public procurement processes – just like any other tool they buy to work smarter and be more efficient. This is not funding. It is a transaction."
'Punish the media'
The White House has said it will cancel its Politico subscriptions.
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https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-s-battle-with-the-us-media-7663777
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Other media outlets also risk losing millions of dollars if the government drops more subscriptions, a lever for the Trump administration to undermine a press that is already facing financial strain, observers say.
"The upshot of all of this nonsense is that the (Make America Great Again) base has new lore they can use to explain away any unfavorable coverage for Trump," said Matt Gertz, from the left-leaning think tank Media Matters, referring to the president's key "MAGA" political slogan.
In another kind of pressure, Brendan Carr, Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission, has ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS, a move that some worry is aimed at unraveling federal funding for public broadcasters.
"The new administration seems to be ramping up a multifaceted effort to punish the media," Roy Gutterman, a Syracuse University professor, told AFP.
"We are moving beyond mere threats."
$10 billion lawsuit
In an unprecedented move, Trump's administration announced that eight media organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NBC and NPR must vacate their dedicated office spaces in the Pentagon.
It cited the need to create room for other outlets including the conservative New York Post and Breitbart.
And in December, ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump which contended the network's star anchor George Stephanopoulos had defamed him.
The settlement was seen as a major concession by a large media organization to Trump, whose previous efforts to sue news outlets have often ended in defeat.
"The spectacle of powerful media organizations debasing themselves before Trump has become so familiar that it is beginning to feel like scheduled programming," Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, wrote in a New York Times column.
CBS News, a broadcaster at the center of another FCC probe and a $10 billion lawsuit from Trump, recently complied with an FCC request to hand over the raw footage from an interview last year with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, with the president accusing it of deceitful editing.
Paramount, CBS's parent company, is now considering settling the lawsuit, media reports say, at a time when it needs Trump's support for its proposed merger with Skydance.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-s-battle-with-the-us-media-7663777
Hungary Moves to Expose USAID Funding
tasnimnews.com
February, 08, 2025
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has declared that he will implement measures ensuring the transparency of aid from the United States to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and media outlets critical of his government.
Speaking on state radio on Friday, Orban emphasized the need to “eliminate these foreign networks” that meddle in the country’s domestic affairs, referencing US Agency for International Development (USAID) programs, RT reported.
An ally of US President Donald Trump, Orban highlighted the Trump administration’s plan to integrate USAID into the State Department, aligning it with the “America First” policy.
“In America, we would call them agents, as they do not serve their own country but accept money from another power… We don’t call them agents… but these are people and organizations paid from abroad whose job is to overthrow the Hungarian government,” the prime minister said.
Orban, who has been in power since 2010 and faces the voters in early 2026, asserted that recipients of foreign funds must face “legal consequences” and be “squeezed out” as they pose a threat to Hungarian sovereignty.
In late 2023, his government established the Sovereignty Protection Office to monitor and address the risk of political interference. Foreign financing for parties or groups running for office are banned in the country, with penalties of up to three years in prison.
The European Commission launched an infringement procedure over the law in February 2024, citing its potential to undermine the bloc’s democratic values and fundamental rights.
Orban has a long history of taking measures against foreign-funded organizations, particularly those linked to Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. He has repeatedly accused Soros of meddling in Hungary’s domestic affairs, undermining traditional family values, and promoting a globalist agenda.
In 2018, Hungary implemented a “Stop Soros” law aimed at NGOs helping asylum seekers. That year, the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations announced it would move from Budapest to Berlin, citing a repressive environment under Viktor Orban. Hungary also forced the closure of Central European University (CEU), which relocated to Vienna due to regulatory challenges.
The European Union has withheld funding from Orban’s government, accusing it of breaching democratic standards.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2025/02/08/3253820/hungary-moves-to-expose-usaid-funding
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