President Donald Trump has dispatched two former campaign aides to work with Voice of America, a government-funded news outlet that broadcasts U.S. News outside of the country, Politico reported Monday evening.
Trump sent his former New Hampshire state director Matthew Ciepielowski and former Wisconsin communications director Matthew Schuck to temporarily work with senior management at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees Voice of America and other broadcasters, according to Politico. There, the two aides will work “to ensure an open, transparent and seamless transition of the BBG to the Trump Administration,” per an email from BBG CEO John Lansing obtained by Politico.
The move follows legislation signed by former President Obama last week granting the president more authority over Voice of America. The defense funding bill included a provision to dissolve the Broadcasting Board of Governors and consolidate control of Voice of America and other broadcasters under a CEO appointed by the president, as Politico reported last week. However, the status of the BBG is unclear because when Obama signed the defense authorization bill, he included a statement saying that disbanding the board would be unconstitutional, according to Politico.
Trump’s decision to dispatch aides to the Broadcasting Board of Governors also comes after Voice of America came under fire for tweets about White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s Saturday press conference during which he made false claims about the size of inauguration crowds.
The outlet initially published tweets quoting Spicer’s claims about crowd size without any context, prompting swift backlash. Voice of America then deleted one of the tweets and ran a story fact-checking Spicer’s claims.
Voice of America director Amanda Bennett told Politico that she has not been influence by the Trump administration.
“I know that everyone is looking to say that we’re being manipulated by the Trump administration, we’re absolutely not,” she said.
Bennett also said that the Trump aides will not be involved in decisions about content produced by Voice of America.
“I met with them, we gave them a briefing. We’re going to be showing them around,” she told Politico. “If people are concerned, a lot of people have been through transitions before and this is standard procedure. We gave them the briefing book.”
“We distort, you comply!”
[quote]Voice of America director Amanda Bennett told Politico that she has not been influence by the Trump administration.
“I know that everyone is looking to say that we’re being manipulated by the Trump administration, we’re absolutely not,” she said.[/quote]
Give it time, honey, the Trumpler Youth have only just been dispatched.
Once they get there with the jackboots and nightsticks, it might just be different.
Uncle Vlad is paying their salaries, so expect a change in focus, too.
Ya Check … Those who don’t know history are condemned to repeat it.
From a speech by the little Austrian fellow when he took over the Reichtag
Simultaneously with this political purification of our public life, the Reich Government intends to undertake a thorough moral purging of the German Volkskörper. The entire system of education, the theater, the cinema, literature, the press, and radio-they all will be used as a means to this end and valued accordingly. They must all work to preserve the eternal values residing in the essential character of our Volk. Art will always remain the expression and mirror of the yearning and the reality of an era. The cosmopolitan contemplative attitude is rapidly disappearing. Heroism is arising passionately as the future shaper and leader of political destinies. The task of art is to give expression to this determining spirit of the age. Blut and Rasse will once more become the source of artistic intuition. The task of the government, particularly in an age of limited political power, is to ensure that the internal value of life and the will of the nation to live are given that much more monumental artistic expression in culture. This resolve entails the obligation to grateful appreciation of our great past. The gap between this past and the future must be bridged in all sectors of our historical and cultural life. Reverence for the Great Men must be instilled once more in German youth as a sacred inheritance. In being determined to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, the government is creating and securing the requirements for a genuinely profound return to religious life.
Read the whole thing for yourself here. And ya I went all Goodwin on ya
http://worldfuturefund.org/Reports2013/hitlerenablingact.htm
The Reichstag? Where’s the fire?
The analogy is inane.
making alternative Facts available everywhere…