{"id":65172,"date":"2025-02-13T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65172"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T21:43:01","slug":"trump-is-appalled-at-the-large-scale-social-deception-that-his-own-administration-paid-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65172","title":{"rendered":"Trump is APPALLED at the ‘Large Scale Social Deception’ that His Own Administration Paid For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump is notoriously fond of castigating his perceived enemies for offenses that he himself is responsible for. Every time he has falsely accused President Biden of committing crimes, it has been to deflect from his own documented criminality, including 34 felony convictions. Every time he has railed at Democrats for cheating, or attacked liberals as extremists, it has been to cover up his own dishonesty and manic radicalism.<\/p>\n

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Nothing is more predictable than Trump’s displays of pure projection that mirror his worst behaviors. And his feigned blindness to what is obvious to everybody else speaks to the degree of mental deterioration that he must be suffering, and\/or his pathological impulse to lie about everything. These may be factors in why Trump’s popularity is wallowing at record lows.<\/p>\n

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Consequently, no one should be surprised that Trump is now unleashing a rancid and utterly unwarranted assault on the media that he despises so thoroughly. Just one day after he brazenly violated the First Amendment rights of the Associated Press<\/a><\/strong> (because they wouldn’t kowtow to his preposterous renaming of the Gulf of Mexico), Trump is now making bizarre and unfounded accusations<\/a><\/strong> aimed at Reuters. He posted the following harangue on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“DOGE: Looks like Radical Left Reuters was paid $9,000,000 by the Department of Defense to study ‘large scale social deception.’ GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What things “look like”<\/em> to Trump are usually grossly distorted by his perversely warped political baises. And this case is no exception. To begin with, Trump was alerted to this phony atrocity by his unelected co-president and puppet master, Elon Musk, who shortly before Trump’s posting, tweeted that…<\/p>\n

“Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for ‘large scale social deception’. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They\u2019re a total scam. Just wow.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There a couple of serious problems with these crackpot commentaries. Let’s begin with the fact that the expenditure in question was not one that financed engaging in “large scale social deception.”<\/em> It was clearly described as a contract to conduct research on nefarious social media operations in order to defend against such threats to national security due to the social media campaigns of foreign adversaries. Naturally Trump is opposed to that because it would put constraints on his BFF, Vladimir Putin, and other tyrants that Trump admires and seeks to emulate.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the expenditures that Trump and Musk are complaining about were made in 2018, during Trump’s occupation of the White House. So he is actually attacking the work of his own administration. And yet, still managing to blame it on “Radical Left[ists]”<\/em> and demanding repayment of the funds that he paid out. None of this was secret. It was all documented and available online. Mediaite did a quick fact-check<\/a><\/strong> and easily found that…<\/p>\n

“The contract in question, issued in 2018 during the first Trump administration, was actually awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services for cybersecurity research. […] The ASED program aims to create scalable systems capable of detecting, analyzing, and mitigating threats to bolster cybersecurity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the record, Thomson Reuters Special Services is a division of the same corporation that owns Reuters News Service, but is not affiliated with it in any working capacity. TRSS has no input into Reuters reporting or editorial practices. It would like saying that Pepsi and Quaker Oats are clandestinely conspiring to alter each others recipes because they are both owned by the same corporation.<\/p>\n

The bottom line here is that Trump and Musk are deliberately lying about the pseudo-scandal that they are pretending to have uncovered. And they are demonstrating that they couldn’t care less about the facts that are so readily available. So if anyone still needs more reasons not to trust anything that either of them say (a line that should have been crossed long ago), this should be a convincing closer to that deal. From now on, if you are fooled by these con artists, you want to be fooled. Also, you are in a cult.<\/p>\n

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