WashPost’s Milbank Pushes Harebrained Smear Against Trump Budget Chief

NewsBusters ^ | 1/6/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

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Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank published a babbling op-ed smearing Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought.

It’s worth noting that Milbank is the same individual who disturbingly said he’d eat his own print newspaper column if then-candidate Donald Trump won the 2016 Republican nomination.

Milbank’s op-ed was erroneously headlined “Meet the Trump saboteur in charge of undermining Biden — and America.” He spewed that “[W]hat Russ Vought is very good at is sabotage. He’s sabotaging national security, the pandemic response and the economic recovery — all to make things more difficult for the incoming Biden administration.” He continued his rant: “That he’s also sabotaging the country seems not to matter to Vought, who has spent nearly two decades as a right-wing bomb thrower.” This is the latest exhibit of the kind of meaningless propaganda the newspaper has chosen to run in its four-year crusade against President Donald Trump’s administration.