Mike Ritland

grants that were given by the Biden administration from various government agencies to Reuters, while Reuters won a Pulitzer for, you know, Reuters was the tip of the spear for all anti-Trump reporting, and they won a Pulitzer in the year 2024 for their series on Elon Musk and malfeasance by Elon Musk and his companies at all of his different portfolio companies, you know.

grants that were given by the Biden administration from various government agencies to Reuters, while Reuters won a Pulitzer for, you know, Reuters was the tip of the spear for all anti-Trump reporting, and they won a Pulitzer in the year 2024 for their series on Elon Musk and malfeasance by Elon Musk and his companies at all of his different portfolio companies, you know.

Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX, X, at the same time that Biden from the White House had asked the U.S. government, had replied to reporters that regulators should look into Elon Musk and that 11 different U.S. government regulatory agencies, regulatory bodies and agencies were pursuing adverse action against all four of those very agencies that Reuters won its Pulitzer for writing hit pieces about.

Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX, X, at the same time that Biden from the White House had asked the U.S. government, had replied to reporters that regulators should look into Elon Musk and that 11 different U.S. government regulatory agencies, regulatory bodies and agencies were pursuing adverse action against all four of those very agencies that Reuters won its Pulitzer for writing hit pieces about.

Tesla, Neuralink, SpaceX, X, at the same time that Biden from the White House had asked the U.S. government, had replied to reporters that regulators should look into Elon Musk and that 11 different U.S. government regulatory agencies, regulatory bodies and agencies were pursuing adverse action against all four of those very agencies that Reuters won its Pulitzer for writing hit pieces about.

This is, by the way, a little bit of a... There's the same sort of moral hazard here that you have with USAID sponsoring the OCCRP. Hit piece journalists... that only have the capacity to do that because their revenues and their profits are being buffered by the American taxpayer. Even though the grants are not explicitly to the U.S. to do that.

This is, by the way, a little bit of a... There's the same sort of moral hazard here that you have with USAID sponsoring the OCCRP. Hit piece journalists... that only have the capacity to do that because their revenues and their profits are being buffered by the American taxpayer. Even though the grants are not explicitly to the U.S. to do that.

This is, by the way, a little bit of a... There's the same sort of moral hazard here that you have with USAID sponsoring the OCCRP. Hit piece journalists... that only have the capacity to do that because their revenues and their profits are being buffered by the American taxpayer. Even though the grants are not explicitly to the U.S. to do that.

There's no grant from a Biden-governed agency of that $300 million that says, write hit pieces on Donald Trump or Trump allies. Just like the money to OCCRP, the corruption reporting probe, is supposed to be for corruption, for politicians and oligarchs and significant cultural figures in Eastern Europe.

There's no grant from a Biden-governed agency of that $300 million that says, write hit pieces on Donald Trump or Trump allies. Just like the money to OCCRP, the corruption reporting probe, is supposed to be for corruption, for politicians and oligarchs and significant cultural figures in Eastern Europe.

There's no grant from a Biden-governed agency of that $300 million that says, write hit pieces on Donald Trump or Trump allies. Just like the money to OCCRP, the corruption reporting probe, is supposed to be for corruption, for politicians and oligarchs and significant cultural figures in Eastern Europe.

But in the process of doing that, OCCRP turned around and dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani and his work in Ukraine, and that formed part of the basis to impeach Donald Trump as president in the Ukraine impeachment in 2019. So American citizens who voted for Donald Trump effectively funded, through Donald Trump's US aid, the impeachment of Donald Trump.

But in the process of doing that, OCCRP turned around and dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani and his work in Ukraine, and that formed part of the basis to impeach Donald Trump as president in the Ukraine impeachment in 2019. So American citizens who voted for Donald Trump effectively funded, through Donald Trump's US aid, the impeachment of Donald Trump.

But in the process of doing that, OCCRP turned around and dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani and his work in Ukraine, and that formed part of the basis to impeach Donald Trump as president in the Ukraine impeachment in 2019. So American citizens who voted for Donald Trump effectively funded, through Donald Trump's US aid, the impeachment of Donald Trump.

They also dug up dirt on Paul Manafort and other US citizens, but in that case, It was, you can argue, dirtier than the Reuters case because the grants were to dig up dirt. In the Reuters case, it's complicated. You see this with just a huge quantity of U.S. media. Let me start from the bottom here. Premium subscriptions are part of news agencies' business models. Paywalls.

They also dug up dirt on Paul Manafort and other US citizens, but in that case, It was, you can argue, dirtier than the Reuters case because the grants were to dig up dirt. In the Reuters case, it's complicated. You see this with just a huge quantity of U.S. media. Let me start from the bottom here. Premium subscriptions are part of news agencies' business models. Paywalls.

They also dug up dirt on Paul Manafort and other US citizens, but in that case, It was, you can argue, dirtier than the Reuters case because the grants were to dig up dirt. In the Reuters case, it's complicated. You see this with just a huge quantity of U.S. media. Let me start from the bottom here. Premium subscriptions are part of news agencies' business models. Paywalls.

Almost every major media outlet has paywalls for their news content. And part of the justification for the U.S. government paying U.S. media companies sounds benign on its face. We want our government officials, our hired employees who are representing you, to be as best equipped and to be as knowledgeable as possible about what their line of business representing you as possible.

Almost every major media outlet has paywalls for their news content. And part of the justification for the U.S. government paying U.S. media companies sounds benign on its face. We want our government officials, our hired employees who are representing you, to be as best equipped and to be as knowledgeable as possible about what their line of business representing you as possible.

Almost every major media outlet has paywalls for their news content. And part of the justification for the U.S. government paying U.S. media companies sounds benign on its face. We want our government officials, our hired employees who are representing you, to be as best equipped and to be as knowledgeable as possible about what their line of business representing you as possible.