Posted on 02/06/2025 12:58:39 PM PST by RandFan
A Note to Our Readers from POLITICO's CEO and Editor-in-Chief
POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight.
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Flatout lie. It is public at the government’s own spending award and grant site.
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient
lol.........
My recollection is the subscription rate was VERY high. Time will tell.
It was a slush fund using taxpayer $$$ so Polutico could get cash to operate their attacks on Trump for the 2024 election.
Everyone knows this now.
I guess there are analytics available which will demonstrate the usage and this value of this tool, or if it is a bribe.
Press Sec and others say $8 million
usaspending.gov shows 1,501 transactions/contracts from $5,688 to $388,720 — https://www.usaspending.gov/keyword_search/politico
I don’t have a problem with them offering the product for use by government entities and others. It is really no different than a subscription to the New York Times, which I assume even the Presidential Press Office has a subscription to along with other newspapers of record.
Politico Pro does not list their pricing online (they may have previously), but I find that is not unusual with some of these subscription services.
The fact is the Trump administration has decided it is an expense we no longer need to make.
“ You mean Politico pro is a front group for Politico, like USAID is a front group for the CIA.”
That’s great and right on the money.
Your take is off the charts naive.
This was money laundering and agenda driven abuse of public funds to give life support to failing leftist mass media.
Now we just have to prove there were kickbacks.
I get it now, if you really want to know what the government is doing just buy our subscription and special access.
Otherwise you just get the same fake news we give to the public for free.
Order your government funded VIP pass now or you will be just as misinformed as the rest of our viewers.
The operative word here is that users pay for it. Not the government. If they want to be better informed they can pay for it themselves.
Journalism Politico? Really? Is that what you guys call your slanted leftist bile?
If Alex Jones had a “special service” with corporate and government rates and the government shelled out thousands and thousands of dollars to keep it afloat would you be ok with that—or would you suspect something foul was afoot?
That is why you should drop using AI.
From the government’s own site. Probably much more than this too. Just over the last 12 months...
Politico LLC
Total Awarded Amount
$8.2 million
The graph here is REAL interesting if someone wants to grab it and share it here... Almost Flatline from 2008 to 20019. Then in 2019 the government started throwing money at them with the most given to them in 2024. Then in 2025 it drops off back to nothing again. Coincidence it was before, during, Biden’s term and then the most leading up to the election? Check it out, it is so obvious it could never be denied...
https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/fa0cefae-7cfb-881d-29c3-1bd39cc6a49e-P/latest
picking nits.
In other words, government subscribes to Politico to learn what’s going on in government.
In other words..
100 PRO subscriptions.. gets you OFF the front page.. Or any pages..
2019, double tapped zero...
I guess we could change the name DOGE to DOGE-PRO.
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