The Trump administration introduced Wednesday {that a} group of far-right media shops have been given press entry to the Pentagon.
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth
Among the many Pentagon’s new pool of shops is Timcast, conspiratorial racist Tim Pool’s podcast, on which he has claimed that “multiculturalism” is behind mass shootings and that girls ought to face public disgrace for what number of sexual companions they’ve had.
Pool has been given Pentagon entry although—or maybe as a result of—he was amongst a gaggle of right-wing influencers paid by the Russian authorities to unfold disinformation. He acquired funds from the Russian Tenet Media to make politically divisive movies to weaken the U.S. authorities and its opposition to Russia.
Russia seemingly had no concept that, with Donald Trump changing into president, one among its paid stooges can be given a front-row seat to the inside workings of the U.S. army.
Equally, MyPillow founder and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s outlet, LindellTV, will now regurgitate Hegseth’s nonsense to the general public. Lindell was among the many Trump sycophants who’ve falsely insisted that Trump received the 2020 election.
MyPillow founder and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell
Gateway Pundit, the conservative weblog based and operated by Jim Hoft, additionally acquired Pentagon credentials. Hoft, as soon as described by the media watchdog group Media Issues for America because the “dumbest man on the internet,” has spent a long time selling debunked right-wing conspiracy theories and different falsehoods.
Extra just lately, Gateway Pundit paid out a settlement in a 2024 defamation lawsuit introduced by two Georgia election employees after it falsely accused them of rigging the 2020 election outcomes.
Pentagon reporting is of dire significance in the intervening time.
The Trump administration is engaged in warfare in South America, which some specialists say is illegitimate. In the meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ignored Trump’s halfhearted try to finish Russia’s warfare on Ukraine, which has most just lately included the bombing of a kindergarten with youngsters current. And within the Center East, Israel’s battle with Hamas has continued regardless of Trump’s claims that he secured a “peace deal.”
The Pentagon’s new right-wing press corps is past ill-equipped to deal with unbiased reporting. However with regards to producing tales that get Hegseth’s approval, it’ll go with flying colours.
