'Not even remotely true': White House snags major media in 'easily debunked lies'

 February 4, 2025

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

The White House chore of calling out legacy media organizations for their misrepresentations of the administration of President Donald Trump seems to be a daily routine now.

Trump, who described those media outlets during his first term as president as "fake news," and often clashed verbally with activist reporters who took advantage of their postings at the White House to badger him, has exhibited little patience with inaccurate claims.

For example, in a report issued on Tuesday, it was AP, PBS, NBC and NPR who all claimed "operatives" from the Department of Government Efficiency "attempted to gain access to secure (government) spaces." The claims implied that classified information was "somehow at risk and being accessed without proper clearance," the White House explained.

"FACT: White House Communications Director Steven Cheung confirmed the reports were 'FAKE NEWS. Not even remotely true at all,' while top DOGE advisor Katie Miller noted 'no classified material was accessed without proper security clearances.'"

Then there was the false claim from Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., who has been one of his party's key attack dogs against Trump.

He claimed, "Until today you could file your taxes FOR FREE. Trump just took that away from you."

Explained the White House, "That's an easily debunked lie – the official IRS Direct File website remains online and is accepting tax returns. It's such an egregious lie, even the Associated Press admits 'the free filing program is still available.'"

The White House noted, "The onslaught of Fake News is coming at record speed as legacy media finds itself unable to process the speed at which President Donald J. Trump is working for the American people."

Then was the claim by a "random wannabe journalist," that the administration "Illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information."

"FACT: Top DOGE advisor Katie Miller declared there is 'nothing illegal and no server, just more made up tall tales from uninformed career bureaucrats who probably telework.'"

Then there was the claim from Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., that said the Trump administration is "what the beginning of a dictatorship looks like."

She was inserting herself into what has become a massive scandal, the spending of U.S. tax dollars by USAID on "transgender comic books … DEI in Serbia, and transgender operas (whatever those are) in Colombia."

Actually, that's just "holding unelected bureaucrats accountable for their spending decisions," the White House said.

Further, it released a list of some of the most egregious USAID spending offenses found … so far.

Those would include $1.5 million to "advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces, " $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland and $2.5 million for electric vehicles in Vietnam.

There also were expenditures for a transgender opera and a transgender comic book and sex changes in Guatemala.

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