Feds using anti-terror money for propaganda attacking Trump

By Bob Unruh

(Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash)
(Photo by Pepi Stojanovski on Unsplash)

The federal government has used $700,000 of money designated for opposing terrorism to fund propaganda attacking President Donald Trump.

A report from the Daily Wire explained the findings of a project undertaken by the Media Research Center.

It found that the Department of Homeland Security used funding from the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Program to pay the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab for what the lab itself called “propaganda.”

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“Propaganda can also be used for socially beneficial purposes. Indeed, because the public has long been recognized as being suggestible, the United States has long made use of beneficial propaganda during WWI, WWII, and the Cold War,” the lab confirmed in its request for the federal money.

The Daily Wire already had reported that the lab and a “closely linked activist group, Media Literacy Now” are involved in a “sprawling, government-funded campaign to run propaganda on Americans to create a mandate for increased censorship.”

The money was used for an attack campaign against Trump and other conservatives, under the pretense of “media literacy,” the MRC found.

The MRC explained Biden’s goals appears to be a “demand” for “literacy” that actually is a supercharged censorship industry.

The Daily Wire noted the anti-terrorism grant program was created during the administration of Barack Obama, when Biden was vice president.

The report noted Miles Taylor, the DHS chief of staff under Donald Trump “who gained notoriety for writing a New York Times op-ed admitting to undermining Trump from within,” saw to it that the program continued even though Trump opposed it.

And it explained that despite bans on federal money being used for lobbying, the Rhode Island lab paid individuals $250 each to write, online, about “misinformation, disinformation, media literacy… and more!”

All demanded more leftist policies.

One federally funded post wildly claimed, “We are all living in a darker, scarier, angrier, less hopeful country thanks to Mr. Trump’s influence. Are we on the verge of civil war?”

IMPORTANT NOTE TO WND READERS: For America’s ruling elites, nothing is more precious, wonderful and life-giving to their great cause than the Jan. 6, 2021 “insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol. It’s irrelevant that the events didn’t come remotely close to constituting an actual “insurrection,” or that both police and over 200 undercover FBI assets provoked the riot – which Tucker Carlson calls a “set-up.” Yet Vice President Kamala Harris still insists the minor riot was just as horrific as the 9/11 terror attacks and Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

WHY are the elites doing this?

It’s not just because convicting, imprisoning, torturing and destroying the lives of hundreds of Trump supporters is meant to terrify and intimidate millions of Americans into submission. And it’s not just because activist judges and bureaucrats in over 30 states are absurdly trying to keep Trump off their state’s election ballots by citing the 14th Amendment’s prohibition against anyone who “engaged in insurrection” from holding elective office.

It’s because the elites’ destruction of America is so rapid, horrendous and obvious that they feel compelled to turn their opponents into monsters – or lose power at the next election. But that doesn’t mean just calling conservatives and Christians “racists,” “white supremacists,” “radical extremists” and “domestic terrorists” as they do continually. They know much more is needed.

Question: What if, far from being horrified by a half-baked riot they absurdly claim is worse than any domestic disturbance since the Civil War, the left actually LOVES the idea of violence on the right – the worse the better – since it perfectly serves their agenda? Increasingly, all the evidence strongly suggests today’s power-mad leftist elites not only intend to intimidate and discredit their political opponents by calling them terrorists, they mean to provoke actual violence.

The secret strategies and shocking tactics of today’s ascendant far-left elites are exposed as perhaps never before in the January issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, headlined “INCITING VIOLENCE: DEMS’ SECRET STRATEGY FOR STAYING IN POWER.”

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Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.


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