Trump shoveling disinformation

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Aug 19, 2024.

  1. VOLdemort

    VOLdemort

    lol it was Trump's initiative. Biden signed the 2024 FAA Reauth-Bill. It had zero DEI-initiatives... that's Trump you stupid cuck.

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    #191     Jan 31, 2025
  2. Ricter

    Ricter

    I don't even know who you're replying to, but I like the way you wrote it.
    :)
     
    #192     Jan 31, 2025
  3. You too? :D
     
    #193     Jan 31, 2025
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  4. ipatent

    ipatent

  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    What complete nonsense as the title of the article. She was not a former Biden White House aide. She represented the army twice in Medal of Honor ceremonies at the Biden White House and once in a Medal of Freedom ceremony.

    This lady is from Durham NC — near where I live. Here is a full article outlining her achievements — https://www.wral.com/story/durham-w...opter-that-crashed-into-plane-in-dc/21838052/

    May I further outline that your source, WLT Report, is utter crap. Naturally you do not provide a url for in clear text because you know it is complete low quality extreme right-wing crap. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wlt-report-bias/
     
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    #195     Feb 1, 2025
  6. All you non military fucks repeating this bullshit is sad..... the military does not hand out pilot jobs, you have to qualify and go up the ladder like everyone else. To think a pilot in the Army is bumped simply because they are a woman is some stupid disrespect on the military. No politician controls internal requirements for highly skilled positions. Every pilot meets the same criteria and it is high standard....

    Now that being said, it puzzles me that a highly trained pilot would fl above 200 feet and not see a plane coming...
     
    #196     Feb 1, 2025
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  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Trump and his Cabinet members are once again shoveling misinformation. They tried to claim that no one was exchanged for Marc Fogel.

    It's pretty obvious -- even to the most simple minded -- that Russia was not going to release Fogel unless they got someone in exchange. In this case, it is cybercrime kingpin Alexander Vinnik.

    So much for Secretary of State Marco Rubio bragging that his freedom was “not in return for anything.”

    Russia Embarrasses Marco Rubio With Update on Prisoner Release
    The Kremlin provided a quick fact-check after Rubio claimed there was no prisoner swap between Russia and the United States.
    https://newrepublic.com/post/191442/russia-america-rubio-prisoner-release

    US to swap Marc Fogel for Russian cybercrime kingpin Alexander Vinnik: Official
    Detained in Russia since 2021, Marc Fogel landed back in the U.S. on Tuesday.
    https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...wake-fogel-release-kremlin/story?id=118725555
     
    #197     Feb 12, 2025
  8. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Reuters and AP are the two most neutral and high quality new outlets on the face of the earth. Both pretty much just report the news straight-up.

    Trump Demands ‘Radical Left’ Reuters Return $9 Million to US Gov — That He Gave Them — After Baseless Elon Musk Claim
    https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump...t-he-gave-them-afer-baseless-elon-musk-claim/

    President Donald Trump unleashed on “Radical Left Reuters” over a 2018 Pentagon contract to “study large-scale social deception”—a contract awarded during his own administration—and demanded the news agency “GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!”

    The brief but furious outburst was pushed out early on Thursday as the president cited the revelation as a finding of his newly minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump posted on Truth Social:

    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!


    Indeed, DOGE’s agency head Elon Musk boosted a post on X claiming the contract showed the “news agency received millions for social engineering.”



    Musk’s implication was more controversial, that Reuters, a respected global news agency, was somehow running disinformation campaigns on behalf of the Pentagon. That, however, appears to be a misreading, or deliberate misrepresentation, of a publicly available government document.

    The contract, first flagged by MAGA influencer Ian Miles Cheong, surfaced after Musk, apparently disgruntled by a Reuters article arguing DOGE cuts were politically motivated, asked followers to “find out” how much federal money the organization had received.



    The idea, predictably, fueled a fresh round of conspiracy theorizing that once again made its way right to the Oval Office.

    A quick fact-check reveals, however, something else.

    The contract in question, issued in 2018 during the first Trump administration, was actually awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services for cybersecurity research.


    Issued by the Department of Defense through the Air Force Research Laboratory and DARPA, the contract is described on the government’s USA Spending website as being in relation to “Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED), Large Scale Social Deception (LSD).”

    The ASED program aims to create scalable systems capable of detecting, analyzing, and mitigating threats to bolster cybersecurity.

    While Musk pushed the idea that Reuters had been paid to carry out “large scale social deception” Trump made it closer to the truth in saying that the contract was to “study” it.

    What the president missed in his attack on the news agency was that the company awarded the contract was Thomson Reuters Special Services, which operates separately from Reuters News and specializes in fraud detection and risk management—areas directly relevant to countering cyber threats. Organizations like LexisNexis, Bloomberg, and Wolters Kluwer operate in similar spaces, offering fraud prevention and compliance tools.

    Debate over government expenditure is fair but after Musk and Trump’s intervention a contract awarded to a risk analytics firm to develop cybersecurity defenses has now been twisted into an elaborately misleading narrative about Reuters’ alleged role in state-sponsored media manipulation – a narrative that just happens to lend itself well to Trump’s media vendetta and Musk’s bid to cut costs.

    In a statement to Mediaite Steve Rubley, CEO of Thomson Reuters Special Services, said the following:

    Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS), LLC is a separate U.S. legal entity governed by an independent Board of Directors, that operates independently from Reuters News. Recent public discourse has conflated these entities and has inaccurately represented the nature of the business between TRSS and the Department of Defense.

    TRSS has provided software and information services to U.S. government agencies across successive administrations for decades, to assist in identifying and preventing fraud, supporting public safety, and advancing justice.

    Reuters News is the leading global provider of business, financial and world news in keeping with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles which govern its newsroom. Thomson Reuters commercial agreements, including Reuters News commercial agreements, have no influence over or impact on Reuters editorial coverage.
     
    #198     Feb 13, 2025
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    New marching orders: Question the legitimacy of McConnell's polio. Guess Donald did not like McConnell opposing RFK Jr.'s confirmation.

    'Never heard anyone question that': CNN hosts dumbstruck as Trump doubts McConnell's polio
    https://www.rawstory.com/never-heard-anyone-question-that/

    CNN anchors Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez were dumbstruck when President Donald Trump questioned whether Sen. Mitch McConnell ever really had polio during an Oval Office press gaggle Thursday.

    Keilar introduced fact-checker Daniel Dale, asking, "Where would you like to start?"

    "Well, Mitch McConnell had polio," Dale stated. "I've never heard anyone question that until President Trump did today. Like, is that a conspiracy theory that even existed before today? I don't know. That was something," Dale said.

    "Before you go on, Daniel, let's provide some context for our viewers," Boris Sanchez said, rolling tape of Trump's bizarre assertion as he talked about McConnell voting against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Health and Human Services secretary. Thursday's vote, in which Kennedy was confirmed, marked the third time McConnell voted against a Trump nominee.

    "I was the one that got him to drop out of the leadership position," Trump said of McConnell. "So, he can't love me. But he's not voting against Bobby; he's voting against me. But that's all right. He endorsed me. You know that Mitch endorsed me, right? Do you think that was easy?"

    CNN correspondent Kaitlyn Collins interjected, "He had polio, obviously," alluding to the fact that McConnell spoke out against RFK Jr. due to his anti-vaccine stance.

    "I don't know anything about 'he had polio.' He had polio," Trump repeated.

    "Are you doubting that he had polio?" Collins asked.

    "I have no idea if he had polio. All I can tell you about him is that he shouldn't have been leader. He knows that. He voted against Bobby. He votes against almost everything now. He's a, you know, very bitter guy."

    When Keilar came back on screen, she confirmed that Trump did, in fact, appear to "cast doubts" on whether McConnell ever had polio.

    "He did!" she exclaimed about the validity of McConnell's illness, before tossing back to Dale, who concluded, "Yeah, he did. He talked about it for decades."

    Watch the clip below or at this link via CNN.
     
    #199     Feb 13, 2025
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #200     Feb 18, 2025