The White House press office on Tuesday slammed the "hoax machine" of the mainstream media, surfacing and then rebutting the fake news it said is coming at "rapid speed" in the two-plus weeks that President Donald Trump has been in office.
In an email blast titled "Fake News: Hoax Machine Keeps Running" sent Tuesday, the White House press office shot down four recent stories generated by Democrat lawmakers and legacy media.
The first detailed an assertion by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., that said the Trump administration took away the ability to file taxes for free.
"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 press office wrote.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., this week likened the Trump administration to a "dictatorship" for its move to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.
"Ending U.S. taxpayer funding of transgender comic books in Peru, DEI in Serbia, and transgender operas (whatever those are) in Colombia is not akin to a 'dictatorship' — it's holding unelected bureaucrats accountable for their spending decisions," the WH replied.
The third involved media reports that Department of Government Efficiency "operatives" were trying "to gain access to secure [government] spaces."
"White House Communications Director Steven Cheung confirmed the reports were 'FAKE NEWS. Not even remotely true at all,' " while top DOGE adviser Katie Miller noted " 'no classified material was accessed without proper security clearances,' " read the email.
Finally, the WH responded to an independent report that DOGE had "illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information."
" ... Miller declared there is 'nothing illegal and no server, just more made up tall tales from uninformed career bureaucrats who probably telework,' " the WH responded.
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