Posted on 03/12/2025 2:52:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
First, it was ABC’s Martha Raddatz. Then, it was CBS’s Margaret Brennan. And now, Military.com’s Patricia Kime is the latest member of the propaganda press to get a well-deserved scolding from the Trump administration for masquerading her left-wing activism as reporting.
The moment came during a newly released sit-down exchange between Kime and Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins. The former congressman was sworn into the position last month following a bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate.
“I need your help on something. I need your help because all I seem to be doing lately is fighting back against innuendo and rumor stories,” Collins told Kime. “In fact, Patricia, part of it is with you.”
The VA secretary took specific aim at a Feb. 5 story authored by Kime titled, “Elon Musk Aide Is Now Working at VA and Accessing Its Computer Systems.” Citing unconfirmed reports, the Military.com reporter wrote in her piece that, “Rumors began circulating Tuesday that DOGE representatives visited the VA on Tuesday with an intent to mine data on disability compensation and benefits.”
Passing what appeared to be a copy of the article to Kime, Collins criticized the so-called “journalist” for sensationalizing the unconfirmed rumors about the VA’s operations and asked her to commit to not publish similarly shoddy work in the future.
“When you start headlines with ‘there’s a rumor going around,’ and … ‘we’ve heard that,’ that hurts my veterans. That scares my veterans. That scares my employees, because it’s not true,” Collins said. “Will you commit to not doing that in the future?”
“Well, there was a DOGE representative [at the VA] that day,” Kime replied.
The VA secretary quickly shot back, saying that he...
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That's going to leave a mark.
This is what the left does, create fear with false assumptions based on rumors, unidentified leakers and stuff they just make up.
Hopefully most of the nation knows the legacy media does nothing but lie and cannot be trusted.
Every time I hear or read Martha Raddatz’s name, the first thing I think of is how she “preached” against Donald Trump when he was a candidate in 2016, that he would get us into a war.
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Get this to DOGE and new media for investigation. Take out the roots.
Gotcha journalism is all they know.
Even Military.com has fallen into the gutter and can’t get up.
Fake News...All they know.
Trump loves His Vets!
Trump doing his Job.
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