So Politico was an Establishment-Sanctioned, Tax-Payer-Dollar-Funded, Pro-Democratic Party Propaganda Outfit all along...
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Trump administration axes $8 million in Politico subscriptions paid by taxpayers
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/5/trump-administration-a
xes-8-million-politico-subsc/
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The White House said Wednesday it was canceling Politico subscriptions that the U.S. Agency for International Development had purchased with millions of taxpayer dollars.
“I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime will no longer be happening,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at the daily press briefing.
The announcement came after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency uncovered Politico was paid $8.2 million in “government subsidies.”
Democrats are fucked.
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And here's more info on CBS doing essentially the same thing before the election...
All the damning moments CBS edited out of Kamala Harris controversial 60 Minutes interview
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14365391/cbs-kamala-harris-in
terview-damning-differences-60-minutes.html
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All of the damning moments that CBS edited out of their interview with Kamala Harris have been laid bare - after the Federal Communications Commission ordered for the original to be made public.
Donald Trump claimed the sit-down had been rigged - and the unearthed version now shows that CBS only aired 20 minutes of Kamala Harris talking, compared to 60 minutes that were filmed.
The FCC released the interview on Wednesday after Trump sued CBS News in October, claiming the network purposely edited the interview to put him at a disadvantage in the presidential election.
The unedited clip opens with the former VP sneezing as she explains she is 'allergic to mold,' while other sections of her answers were cropped and cut out completely.
In other places, Kamala Harris gave rambled answers on why she should be president, foreign policy, and Donald Trump - all which were quietly nipped by CBS.
The full version of the interview shows that while Harris gave a lengthy answer when asked about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, CBS only aired about seven seconds on 60 Minutes.
Here are the damning differences between the transcripts and what made it on air.
Harris slamming Trump as a 'racist' is edited out
The long version of the CBS interview revealed that the network cut out an entire answer Kamala Harris dedicated to slamming Donald Trump as a racist.
Interviewer Bill Whitaker asked the then-Vice President: 'And talking about that person you're mentioning right now, you have accused Donald Trump of using racist tropes when it comes to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, when it comes to birtherism, when it comes to Charlottesville.
'In fact, you have called him a racist, and divisive. Yet Donald Trump has the support of millions and millions of Americans. How do you explain that?'
Kamala Harris' answer to this question was completely cut from the CBS episode.
In the uncut version, Harris bashed Trump for having a 'bouquet of microphones' at his disposal, and for his 'most vile lies' about people in Springfield, Ohio.
The reference is to the comments Trump made last year, about illegal migrants in the midwestern state eating people's dogs.
In the unearthed version, Kamala also made a bizarre boast about how when she was DA in California, 'the words I spoke could move markets.'
In the deleted version of the interview, Harris then went on a strange rant about school kids' picture day that they seemingly missed as a result of Trump's words about Springfield, Ohio.
She responded: 'So let's just break down what you just talked about, and talk about it in the context of the words that Donald Trump has spoken, and the actions he has taken, and whether that is reflective of who we are as Americans, knowing we have so much more in common than what separates us.
'We have a former President who wants to be President again, who has a bouquet of microphones in front of him, who has said the most vile lies about a group of legal immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. And if I may, Bill, let me just say something.
Interviewer Bill Whitaker sat down with the then-VP - but the majority of what he asked was not aired
'You know, from the time I was a prosecutor, to attorney general, to now I'm Vice President, I learned very early in my career when the voters bestow on you the authority to have these positions, you must be very thoughtful about how you use that microphone in front of you.
'And you know, when I was attorney general, the words I spoke could move markets.
'So the idea that the former president, who again is running to be President, would use that microNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Speaking of interfering in a nation's domestic affairs ...
Quote:How 'independent' can you be when you depend on USAID?
WikiLeaks: USAID Has Been Funding Over 6,000 Journalists Worldwide Across Nearly 1000 Platforms
Thursday, Feb 06, 2025 - 11:00 AM
Yesterday's report that the US government has been funding outlets such as Politico, the Associated Press, the BBC, and others raised more questions than it answered - though the obvious implication is that the US government has effectively been propping up regime-friendly media, which then peddles regime-friendly coverage - and spent years attacking independent outlets such as ZeroHedge, The Federalist, and many unlucky ones who have since been starved out of business.
And while funding for Politico and others has come from all over the federal government - WikiLeaks, citing a RSF report, highlighted that USAID was funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 "media" NGOs, which includes 90% of the reportage out of Ukraine.
" Almost immediately after the freeze went into effect, journalistic organizations around the world that receive American aid funding started reaching out to RSF expressing confusion, chaos, and uncertainty. The affected organizations include large international NGOs that support independent media like the International Fund for Public Interest Media and smaller, individual media outlets serving audiences living under repressive conditions in countries like Iran and Russia.
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USAID programs support independent media in more than 30 countries, but it is difficult to assess the full extent of the harm done to the global media. Many organizations are hesitant to draw attention for fear of risking long-term funding or coming under political attacks. According to a USAID fact sheet which has since been taken offline, in 2023, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists, assisted 707 non-state news outlets, and supported 279 media-sector civil society organizations dedicated to strengthening independent media. The 2025 foreign aid budget included $268,376,000 allocated by Congress to support “independent media and the free flow of information.”
Note the recurring use of the term 'independent media.'
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Of course, the RSF report, and another from the Columbia Journalism Review are sounding the alarm over the 'silencing of independent media' around the world.
The critical context they omit, however, is that USAID - despite the best of intentions when it was formed, has been corrupted into a deep-state slush-fund.
Now, if they could turn their attention to the NED ...
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based non-governmental organization, reported that Congress allocated $268,376,000 for 2025 for “training … for 6,200 journalists, assist[ing] 707 non-state news outlets, and support[ing] 279 media-sector civil society organizations dedicated to strengthening independent media” to bolster “the free flow of information.”
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Trump started to right that wrong with his Day 1 executive order launching a missile at the Censorship-Industrial Complex, prohibiting the government from any further participation.
His orders to freeze the Politico funding, and on Thursday to cut “every single media contract,” represents the next leg of an effort to restore our freedom of speech by further separating the media and the state.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/opinion/feds-8m-politico-payout-is-dcs-r
eward-for-lapdog-media/
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https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1888021014585688435
NEW: @DavidSacks
blasts USAID for using American taxpayers to fund left-wing organizations and policies around the world.
"We're in debt almost $40 trillion, and anytime anyone tries to cut anything in Washington, the whole city screams bloody murder. The question is, why? Well, now we know. The money is all going to them."
"New York Times, getting paid. Politico, getting paid. Bill Kristol, perennial warmonger, getting paid. Ukraine, like 11 out of 12 publications, getting paid. Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, was saying his political opposition is funded by USAID."
"In Poland, the left-wing political opposition is funded by USAID. BBC in the U.K. Every left-wing organization in the world seems to be getting paid by this slush fund at USAID, which distributes $50 billion a year. That's a billion dollars a week. That's a lot of money."
"It makes you wonder. The left, in general, tries to portray itself as a movement of the people. That it's grassroots, this is the exact opposite. This is astroturf. This money is coming from the top down out of Washington to fund all these groups all over the world. So it makes you wonder, what is the real level of local support for these left-wing policies all over the world?"
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Oh... and you may have missed the footage, but they took down the sign for USAID from their main building the other day.
USAID is dead.
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