Media Says No Evidence of Government Waste, Fraud & Abuse

For weeks the media have insisted that Trump and Elon were lying about rampant government fraud, waste, or abuse. Finally WSJ admits that “wasteful spending… isn’t hard to find.” Ya think? pic.twitter.com/kMg7mSnuhY

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 20, 2025

Both of these examples of disinformation were published today pic.twitter.com/SM9TdOFtz0

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 20, 2025

Here’s the Times a week ago lying brazenly. Scroll down the thread and you can see they later alter the headline. They’re effectively saying that accusations of government waste, fraud and abuse are a conspiracy theory. Everything’s fine. Media gaslighting as usual. https://t.co/1mCfUhcxzd

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 20, 2025

Just like there was tons of evidence of labs leaking viruses before Covid, there was tons of evidence of waste fraud and abuse before DOGE. pic.twitter.com/HCSNx12BMy

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 20, 2025

he media and Dems say that everything Trump identifies as a problem doesn’t exist and is just a conspiracy theory. They’re such knee-jerk partisans they can’t help but to further demolish their credibility. Just 31% of the public trusts them and the number could decline further.

To wit: https://t.co/fzK6JjJRV3

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 20, 2025

Everybody knows that if Democrat president were cutting waste, fraud and abuse, the media would be clapping like circus seals.

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 20, 2025