Summary

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt struggled to justify claims of government fraud during a press briefing, despite weeks of investigations by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

Instead of proving fraud, Leavitt pointed to contracts that simply conflicted with Trump’s policies. When pressed by reporters, she claimed wasteful spending was fraudulent without offering evidence.

Meanwhile, Musk’s team has accessed sensitive data from multiple federal agencies, raising concerns about privacy and oversight.

  • @StormMission907@lemmy.world
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    1194 months ago

    How do Trumps press secretaries say stuff with a straight face. Last time was the same. Trump spews nonsense and she smiles and repeats it.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      444 months ago

      She’ll do anything for money and power. She’s a 27 year old married to a rich 60 year old.

      Maybe it’s true love, but given her choice of employer, I’m assuming she’s in it for the cash.

    • @otto@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Because they’re delusional and actually believe it. They’ve convinced themselves of this fantasy reality so they never have to admit that they’re wrong and can act like the biggest piece of shit in the world without deserving any consequences for it.

    • clif
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      104 months ago

      The last one is now a governor.

      … So apparently it pays to vomit lies that align with whatever he says. Seems the people love it.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      The real question is whether anyone believes it. Evidence indicates that too many people do. It works

      Imagine having the superpower to say any ridiculous thing and have it become real (to 50% of voters). Of course in this case the superpower is easily manipulated followers, but wouldn’t you use that for evil if you could?

      • NielsBohron
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        wouldn’t you use that for evil if you could?

        I wouldn’t, but I can see the temptation, even for people that aren’t sociopaths.

        I’d like to think that even if I was using that power to go around official channels, it would be in the service of the greater good and I would strive to leave the lower and middle classes better off than when I took office (but of course that could very easily turn into a God Emperor of Dune-situation where I’m trying to keep everyone on the “Golden Path” that only I can see, which is of course the danger of any dictator, benevolent or otherwise)

        • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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          24 months ago

          Honestly if I had that power, I’d try never to speak again. Think of Black Bolt from the Inhumans. He was so traumatized by the damage his voice did that he just never opened his mouth

          • NielsBohron
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            On the other hand, if you have the power to help people and you don’t use it, isn’t that immoral, too? Especially when the harm you might be doing is merely subverting the free-will of oligarchs and bigots to ensure the physical safety of marginalized groups?

            It’s the trolley problem on a larger scale with hypothetical superpowers

      • @Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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        44 months ago

        Google Moon (Google Maps of the moon, showing landing sites and whatnot) proved it - if you zoomed in all the way, you could see that it was made of cheese. At least you could, until the woke media forced them to take it down! (/s)

        You can still find articles about it and showing it.

    • @Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
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      414 months ago

      I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s so many comments on there being like “oooooh they didn’t expect her to have that much evidence. Get WRECKED libs.” How can anyone see that and genuinely think any evidence of any type of fraud was provided in any way? Like the reporter immediately said afterwards, this all just looks like spending that they don’t like and somehow that proves it as fraudulent.

      Somebody make it make sense. How are these adults.

      • @Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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        264 months ago

        In answer to your last question it is an unfortunate, but incontrovertible, truth that the only single qualification for becoming an adult is staying alive long enough. That’s it.

        I’ve been adulting for almost three decades. No fucker has ever made me sit an exam. It’s crazy. I wouldn’t trust me to adult, but here I am…

      • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        It has to be true. Homelander said so himself.

        (I just rewatched S3 and started S4 no spoilers pleas)

      • @T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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        24 months ago

        When trump gets elected trolls crawl out of their dank holes to self pleasure themselves over the end of the USA

      • @Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org
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        14 months ago

        No one questioned when trump said that it would be a good idea to nuke a hurricane. Americans are piss babies that are scared to upset the upper class.

  • @yarr@feddit.nl
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    264 months ago

    without offering evidence.

    These folks were never the one to let pesky facts get in the way. All that “evidence” was planted by Democrats, I’m sure.

  • Banana
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    264 months ago

    This is exactly why they want to dismantle the department of education. They can’t have people, mere civilians, know what fraud is.

  • TooManyFoods
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    64 months ago

    This administration is an expert in fraud. After all wasn’t the president found liable civilly for it?

  • @Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    24 months ago

    Press secretaries always lie, it is part of their job. Donald Cuck’s secretaries are special because all they do is lie and their lies are so unbelievable it is like we are in an episode of Black Mirror.