USAID EXPOSED For Paying POLITICO? Not So Fast! Robby Soave

Robby Soave delivers radar on the false claims that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds Politico. #MSM #Trump #usaid
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[@nj1537]

Then why pay through USA ID why not pay through a legitimate source?

[@Some_call_me_Tim]

This is a very good question.

[@ehoffman2260]

The right question.

[@joerussell9574]

BINGO!

[@S1ph3r]

Exactly! Where is the the expense reports within that depts budget report?

[@les0101s]

It wasn't all paid through USAID.

[@bropitt]

does the Hill receive any funding from USAID? It's question we should ask every journalist institution forward.

[@ExtraordinaryLiving]

Yes, very sussssssss ..........

[@LastnameFirstname-j7p]

No they get Aipac money that is funded by Usaid

[@Kshthymyla]

You should be able to check, actually. Now, anyway.

[@CameraMystique]

Regulations are slow, it's not like the stock market, it's never "minute-to-minute". This guy in the video is trying to protect them.

[@jasoncavari]

My question exactly

[@theRealBMF-zk7jm]

Sounds like the Hill must have a premium product the government buys that we need to hear about.

[@JasonFoster-h6k]

One should wonder.

[@ozgecko4050]

Honestly the defence suggests politico owns them

[@JohnChildressURock]

The politico thing doesn’t bother me as much as trying to force transgender idea on other countries. Yet, if you use the US money to push Christian ideas on other countries they would be outraged.

[@hiltonchapman4844]

@@ozgecko4050 @ozgecko4050: Re your "Honestly the defence suggests politico owns them". Yep! Looks that way to me, too! Just a f'rexample- Robby: Buying a Politico Premium subscription is like buying a printer... Bad analogy! A printer is a physical item, it's hardware; a subscription to what is essentially "a news service" is not physical in the same sense - it is software. The word "premium" just indicates that is priced higher than normal - over-priced, expensive. ... and another f'rexample- Robby: 8 million is the TOTAL govt. tab from 2016. Almost 1 million USD per year! That's a pretty handsome billing! And that it is spread over many departments and offices doesn't reduce that figure - $1,000,000 per year! ... and for what? Essentially "news" in electronic form (maybe paper too, but I don't know). And the main point is - was this 8 million dollars GOOD value-for-money? That is the 8 million dollar question! Let DOGE find out! Bottom line: "Buying" premium subscriptions for NEWS is a laundered route to buying influence OF the news! HC-JAIPUR (08/Feb/2025) .

[@moena760]

This segment makes me think the Hill is going to be on one of these funding lists.

[@TheDarkLasombra]

I trust Robbie enough to dismiss your opinion.

[@synthmaven]

BOOOM !!!!!

[@eii7316]

😅say what I want or you are lying .....literally the "right" wing mindset smh.

[@liuj88]

Your comment makes me think you're just not very logical.

[@eii7316]

@@liuj88 Explain why my comment was not logical?

[@timhovey6847]

8 million dollars for "subscriptions" Robbie pretending he doesn't understand how to launder money

[@user-sm4mq9nt6t]

Obviously The Hill has this same type of "subscription."

[@puttinontheritzcrackers3301]

Remarkable. It is a big story. The government buying news subscriptions as foreign aid is bizarre.

[@OneWildTurkey]

Over an 8 year period? That's a pretty poor success rate.

[@MrWhiterunGuard]

Maybe they should investigate if the USAID is paying for The Hill subscriptions. We as taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for any subscription to anything, you want a subscription you pay it yourself out of your own wallet, don’t ask tax payers to foot the bill.

[@deeveevideos]

I wonder if the hill got any of that money

[@AlexanderEalley]

Well folks, it looks like The Hill is also receiving funds for subscriptions as well.

[@fredhancock7836]

“It’s just a subscription, a lot of them, way overpriced”. Such a swampy answer.

[@Alarik52]

Well, the thing is, both parties are drowning in it - but that's corporate business. Contracting tasks out to distribute responsibility and accountability. Not 'government efficiency'. Because the government used to be efficient - but then privatized - and costs went up.

[@RustyYorkThievery]

Subscriptions regardless were of no benefit to taxpayors who fund USAID

[@shawnsdrumcave]

"It's only a small part of the budget" is garbage too.

[@VoxMachina8]

Robbie is disappointing

[@chuckysmaria6466]

@@Alarik52 "hur dur both parties". You think we don't know. Why do you think many RINOs were booted out in the republican party? Why do you think RINOs who are still in power are siding with Dems? Why do you think MAGA movement is threatening to primary them? Trump and MAGA movement IS the 3rd party. Instead of figthing both parties at the same time, trump went after Republicans in the primary and Dems in the general election.

[@craigentrekin5883]

Please explain how, according to the BBC 8% of their yearly revenue comes from US government sources including agencies like US AID...

[@user-sm4mq9nt6t]

The government is buying off the media. The media is spreading whatever lies the government tells them to. Best example. Hunter Biden laptop right before the 2020 election.

[@JasonFoster-h6k]

They can't argue it away so they will just ignore it.

[@grimepilogue2831]

BBC International, that's GB's USAID (who likely gave money to far left organizations in the US in turn). Every time you hand a buddy money to give to another person, that buddy can keep x% without people being bothered. That's why they like passing it around like this. I donate 10 million to you, contract 5 friends to bring it to you, the last guy giving you 8 million dollars- you then thank me, state that you would like to find one of my projects for 8 million dollars, contract 5 friends to bring it to me, and give my tax payers back 60% of their money, which I then give to Malawi for malaria pills which makes anyone that complains racist.

[@craigentrekin5883]

It's a slush fund used for covert political influence peddling... which is why liberals are melting down.

[@Matt_H_]

The BBC also gets mandatory license fees from every household in the UK that watches live TV too...

[@exposingthetruth3821]

Oh yeah. 2500 dollar subscriptions are normal.... Hunters' paintings are worth millions.... Nothing to see here

[@ellencox8415]

Right!? Why... are our tax dollars... going to buying subscriptions? Period!

[@Anonimo1337x]

This is a scandal on par with how scandalous it is that college research institutions pay academic journals so that their pupils and alumns can gain institutional access to research published by said journals.

[@HLStrickland]

@@ellencox8415 Bingo. Use their OWN money then.

[@kevinlang9792]

Similarly, Jared Kushner's services to Saudi Arabia and Israel were worth a billion dollars.

[@DonaldJoeKennedy]

Yeah, not millions or even close to that! But his art is good though. Hate the guy all you want, with good reason, but the work is in fact quite good...

[@tonybrown512]

$10,000 for a subscription? $20,000 for a hammer? $30,000 for a toilet seat?

[@MrMagnaniman]

Nothing to see here!

[@chesscomsupport8689]

The latter two, if true, are deeply suspicious; however, the first is not too far out of line with what organizations pay for subscriptions. You can't compare the cost to an individual person's subscription.

[@MrMagnaniman]

@ Any amount of money is too much for our government to be spending on a blatantly dishonest propaganda outlet.

[@carmenschubert5001]

Brilliant comment!

[@TheBooban]

@@chesscomsupport8689you sound like this guy. No, it’s totally inexcusable to pay for these services with tax dollars. How subscriptions did they pay for Gox? It’s not ok.

[@brianm-g6l]

Oh, so millions of our tax dollars were only being spent on "subscriptions" to publications that lie and propagandize us. Thanks Robbie, I feel much better now!

[@smitrotti]

Excellent comment!

[@liuj88]

Looks like you didn't watch or understand the segment.

[@brianm-g6l]

@@liuj88 Did both.

[@liuj88]

@@brianm-g6l 04:16 I don't think so.

[@MrMagnaniman]

@@liuj88 Why don't you explain it, then? What did Brian say that was incorrect? Politico IS dishonest propaganda. Millions of dollars WERE spent on overpriced subscriptions.

[@sideshowamit]

This is idiotic Robbie. Politico is not some blind machine providing straight information on legislation etc. They have a political bend and you gave very good examples of it. This is outrageous. If Politico just wants to give the nuts and bolts to people in DC, they can do that, but they didn’t.

[@ozgecko4050]

Just checked, politico owns the hill. They should have mentioned this before providing his info

[@coleshores]

@@ozgecko4050 Woah that is a huge conflict of interest.

[@simonmackenzie6230]

​@@ozgecko4050 Where did you check? Wikipedia lists Politico as being owned by Axel Springer (a German company) since 2021.The Hill is listed as being owned by Nexstar Media Group, an American company. I can see no overlap.

[@richcotton4974]

But the important work Politico does is worth all the embezzlement and corruption. If not for Politico we wouldn't know that JD's beard is toxic masculinity that threatens women.

[@Chibabachacho]

Sớ you just gonna throw away all the explanations he made that this was for politico bro subscription which is more like a bloomberg terminal for legislators?

[@VishalSharma-wu5ln]

The Hill seems very sympathetic to USAID. I wonder why. 🤔🤔

[@johnfry2474]

We know! Birds of a feather flock together.

[@TimPeterson]

they weren't funding it, they were just taking money from their budget and giving it to them

[@sn5806]

LOL

[@jeremiahdillard9201]

I heard they can't make payroll without government funding. Make of that what you will.

[@wingman3570]

🤣🤣

[@Alster763]

No kidding, how do all off their employees get to spend taxpayer dollars on their favorite media subscriptions.

[@mike-ws3jl]

This sounds like Fauci explaining funding gain of function research

[@lewispedraza996]

Nope, I'm not buying what both of you are selling. That's just a cover for the money to flow.

[@HLStrickland]

Exactly.

[@Chibabachacho]

You want to believe that so you might as well continue to believe that is that helps you sleep

[@lewispedraza996]

@@Chibabachacho thanks for the support

[@DustinStich-k4l]

@@Chibabachacho Can you point me to any good journalism at politico?

[@_aweshit]

How come they only started getting funds from government from 2019 to 2024? They failed to pay their employees after the funds was cutoff. Nothing to see there? 😂

[@cryptophoenix2023]

Pretty sure it was 2016, not 2019...

[@CameraMystique]

Regulations are slow, it's not like the stock market. This guy in this video is trying to protect them.

[@vankwisher]

Hardly anything was done prior to 2020. It gradually ramped up until the 2024 election year when it exploded. A bunch of new agencies were added including the US forestry service who suddenly needed $846,000.00 dollars in plus subscriptions. I've seen the data.

[@CameraMystique]

@@vankwisher Same stuff happened in Greece in the 80s (as if they are reading the same manual). Enormous government expenses to "their own voters", outrageous number of hiring in the government with all sorts of new agencies, etc. Greece during that time received free money from the EU equivalent to its annual GDP, and raised taxes too, and still got bankrupt. To the extent that it is now mortgaged to the "Triad" of lenders for 99 or so years. *Let alone the discouragement of young people who do not feel encouragement to work in an unfair environment, and thus are leaving.* More than 450,000 young people, many of them highly educated, have left that country of 10 million in the last 25 years. They come here and work hard, they don't want to work in unfair countries, it's not worth it to them. Sad.

[@mikeeslami1746]

We are not buying your soft walking of Politico's financial stats!! Do you have something else to sell or do we need to scrutinize The Hill!?

[@ozgecko4050]

Politico owns them

[@itslikelava]

How does The Hill get funding??

[@jaredmatthews9403]

Merch and youtube ads

[@ellencox8415]

​@@jaredmatthews9403 are we sure?

[@LanceFulbright]

GOOD QUESTION @itslikelava

[@EGarrett01]

Probably in a similar way given how indignant they're acting about it.

[@blackjackjester]

Babysitting ridiculous progressive hosts

[@timgorski]

Why exactly does USAID staff need $5000 subscriptions to Politico Pro?

[@kaleiohu]

If all the staffers need such a service, my question would be why isn't the government providing it themselves? It seems like the exact type of information that should be tracked internally. Why does a 3rd independent party (Politico) have better information on what the government is doing than the government itself?

[@leroyrodgers6089]

There is no way to rationalize how much money each subscription cost.

[@exposingthetruth3821]

Sounds like the Hill is worried about losing subscriptions....

[@andypandy5224]

Based on this video we are gonna 100% see The Hill on that list of media companies.

[@Rodimusbill]

Robby, you can't be that naive! Of course they were told to find politico subscriptions. It's called money laundering ! Same thing fanni did with her lover boy DA in georgia

[@theresa94010]

Robbie's credibility is gone. Won't believe anything he says from now on. Unsubscribed.

[@thingsido6303]

@@theresa94010 Yep!

[@blackjackjester]

if I were going to subversively want funding for something, id set up a subscription service that lets people pay lots of money for ostensibly nothing. This is exactly what they did

[@GattacaKain]

Hundreds of employees from the same, relatively small federal agency were giving tax dollars to the same media outlet. This required a coordinated effort. It was corruption.

[@YonnotRichL]

Politico authors are big donors of the democratic party too. pretty sure asmongold did a segment on it a couple weeks ago.

[@sunnylo6081]

The question is: what were the payments to Politico BEFORE the Biden administration? WHY does the government agency need Politico to tell it what the government is deciding? It’s like if you work for GM, why do you need an outside agency to tell you what GM is doing?! RIDICULOUS!

[@floyd79-c6x]

Sounds like The Hill is owned by Politico!

[@michelleerwin3833]

USAID is still paying Politico millions of $.😂

[@excellentcomment]

For the sake of argument, let's say that USAID staffers need to be informed politically in order to do their jobs--not for insider gossip & employment leads. Then to which conservative political publications did they subscribe? None? Now back to reality: pay for your own subscriptions.

[@MnJaLo]

Robby uses a flawed point that I keep hearing, that since it doesn’t represent a large portion of our spending it somehow isn’t important. Trudeau argued the same, only 1% of illegal immigration comes from Canada so it’s unreasonable that we would want them to do something about it. Foolish argument that only makes sense if you believe you are arguing with fools.

[@alopam]

Simple fact: Congress pays for a subscription to NYT - it's one shared account, that everyone there can access. Meanwhile, the White House paid the equivalent of roughly 220 pro accounts to Politico. Why would the WH need 220 separate accounts to Politico in order for the WH employees to better keep track of the executive orders signed by the president? - That's the question Robby forgot to answer to :P Oh, yeah - And the fact that Mikey J. pays kickbacks to Politico doesn't make it all kosher...

[@johnj.todora4128]

Lost in all of this is...the government pays Politico to tell them about new regulations that are passed....by the government. That, ladies and gentleman, is government 🤠

[@jasoneggleston1879]

Should not the federal government be able to gather its own information about what it itself is doing? Instead of Outsourcing it to propaganda organizations?

[@cryptophoenix2023]

Seems like the logical conclusion to all this. Whether this is a something-burger or a nothing-burger, the government should be capable of providing real-time updates to the decisions being made that is accessible via a public website, rather than forcing everyone to pay for similar services from a politically biased news company. One developer could probably create a Python script that scrapes all government websites for news updates, categorizes them, and then posts them in a publicly accessible database--then charge $5/month per user to keep the server running. Might be a good source of passive income, for the developer too.

[@AdamWild572]

Lol, that sounds like an even bigger problem. Govt that doesn't even know what it's doing.

[@worldlyviewer]

just cause you call it a "subscription" doesn't mean it's not a scamy way to do legal pay offs

[@thehonesttruth8808]

Explain to me then why payments are being paid via USAID instead of directly from the subscribers? I am calling BS on this spin

[@johnlerner5346]

What else did you expect from the corrupt party of the sick and evil?

[@TheOtherShoe-o3w]

You won the “calling the tea kettle black” award. Nothing more corrupt than Trump and his cronies. IE meme coins. But keep buying the lies like most of Republicans do since it makes you feel good.

[@kimberlyhopkins1662]

Why would an independent agency that is for international humanitarian and development aid pay for US government political subscriptions to a news agency? Why hide these subscriptions in Usaid funds?

[@johndearborn5360]

So the government that makes regulations has to pay a news organization to tell them what they as the government are doing? Come on robbie thats just as dumb as what comes out of aoc's mouth

[@KenAlbertson]

Corruption is corruption. The details are less important than the fact.

[@smitrotti]

If Politico reported that Hunter's laptop was Russian propaganda, that's enough to raise serious questions about taxpayers' money going to them.

[@GlitchDotCraft]

Unless… hear me out…unless you are on their payroll

[@bropitt]

I wonder how many milliseconds it would take for Niail to set what's left of his hair on fire if he found out USAID was paying Fox News for any service?

[@ThePzrLdr]

The counter argument is pointless. NO subscriptions should be paid for with taxpayer money. Those should be bought and paid for by INDIVIDUALS out of their personal bank accounts, NOT the governments.

[@doreeneclose6295]

It’s a run around Constitutional separations. Outrageous trying to defend this laundering scheme.

[@AmberAnderton-t3y]

They received funding. Don't refute it.

[@rollyvincoy3848]

wink, wink. you get this contract if you post this in your newspaper. wink, wink. also, robbie just admitted that it is not an efficient spend. therefore, doge is right in closing that account. so what is the issue, robbie?

[@BrandonPitt]

I'd be more sympathetic to the "iT's NoT a SuBsIdY" argument if it weren't such a brazen undisclosed conflict of interest.

[@spademan8681]

2 subscriptions for 2 years for 44 grand, WOW

[@Bryan-od7nv]

Even the mafia couldn’t come up with a better money laundering scheme.

[@gnewkirk5377]

Sounds like they are also on the payroll.

[@micahstory]

Yeah, totally normal…$10k per login. Sounds worth it.

[@joelcawthon1365]

The hill quickly losing what little credit they had

[@rawrrrz]

yeah, don't care how badly they want to be 'informed', it ain't worth thousands of taxpayer dollars. they can get their news the same way the rest of us normies do, for much less. there's simply no subscription service on the planet actually worth thousands of dollars..

[@JacobHimmelhaver-m8g]

10 thousand dollars per subscription! And they are trying to say this is not wrong.

[@rivernorthhomes]

Lol cmon Robby, ur better than this.

[@pnwlady]

Wait, congress has to pay Politico for updates on regulations made by congress and the fed? Why not just build their own system?

[@oreillysc1]

Sounds like someone is on the same USAID payroll as politico.

[@bestowisdom]

Robbie, what happened? It is $26 million since 2021 and $8 million last year. These subscriptions cost in excess of $10,000 dollars and provided source information to the same people that would likely be the source of said information. 🤔

[@Alster763]

Robby we have diverge on this, as a libertarian I don't believe in most of the government departments in the first place, but individuals getting premium media subscriptions as part of their jobs, you have lost me there.

[@johnthomas8731]

$8M - Waste, fraud and abuse...

[@metatechnologist]

So it's not the Politico subscriptions for the product they sell per se. Before Biden took office it was just a few USAid Politico subscriptions. It swelled to dozens when Biden took office which brings us to the millions dollar figures which brings up all sorts of questions.

[@chrissauter7501]

Such subscriptions shouldn't cost approximately $34k per subscription. This sounds like money laundering.

[@DomSchiavoni]

Source?

[@LanceFulbright]

@@DomSchiavoni COMMON SENSE IS A SOURCE SOME TIME USE YOUR BRAIN IF YOU HAVE ONE THAT WORKS

[@DomSchiavoni]

@@LanceFulbright Lashing out at someone for asking for a source? Interesting. When approaching the half of my people that didn't vote for Trump with bombshell info like this I like to have a source to minimize their scepticism. At this point, contributing to increasing support for Trump 2.0 is more important than gloating.

[@chrissauter7501]

@DomSchiavoni multiple news outlets have covered this along with multiple yputubers.

[@charlie-qh2ll]

I get what you're saying Robby, but using taxpayer money, no matter the amount, in that way is wrong and should be stopped immediately.

[@Kehvan]

That's a straw man argument, Robert. (I can't call you Robby, because _transexuals_ say shortening a name and putting a "Y" at the end is derogatory.) The argument is that USAID giving Politico money at all is wrong.

[@thunar33]

This poor fella doesn't understand how DC works. They pay for subscriptions. Which is just a fancy way to give money to someone without actually just giving it to them.

[@ericdevarney4089]

spin baby spin

[@stephaniecarmichael5941]

The government should not be paying for subscriptions to media period

[@tonyzuco6144]

Exactly right..!

[@BruceNewhouse]

Time to unsubscribe from The Hill Rising.

[@timokuusela5794]

So, if the money is delivered "in a right way", while it looks like a really bad excuse, there is nothing to see here... And the 44000 is ok? One dollar would be a waste, it does not matter how much.

[@janegerard5604]

Whether it is for subscriptions to Politico or paid directly to Politico, the $ still ends up in the pockets of Politico so there's no real difference. It is wrong.

[@jonahrains7483]

Sorry, but given what's coming out this past week? Nah, we're not buying it - we're just paying for it.

[@dagwood1969]

Robby is just making sure that The Hill will have no problem selling govt employees overpriced subs in the future. See how he did that? (See “bootleggers and baptists”)

[@vanillamidget8560]

8 million for subscriptions? Come on

[@sandeepkumar-ke9cg]

Across govt agencies… example NASA paid 500k and they just stopped them now ..

[@AmberAnderton-t3y]

The government shouldn't be giving any news outlet of money.

[@swallman]

The source of the funding was tax payers, subs are direct subsidy.

[@williamsmith306]

Great point, sounds like wrong color of money.

[@cliffd8380]

I don't want a single taxpayer cent going to Politco. Let those Fed employees pay for their own subscriptions.

[@NickFromDetroit]

Wait until you find out how many federal offices use taxpayer money for subscriptions to the Washington Post, New York Times, Time Magazine, etc.

[@bullboombap]

So, rather than a simple internal memo service, the government needs to pay a third party to tell the government what is happening inside of the government... and that third party has been guilty of disinformation from the government... but everything is fine. This is a bad look Robby.

[@KenPaul-w7q]

Nice try but we are not dumb. We do not want to subsidize you or politico or anyone like you.

[@donnybrooks71]

Please keep in mind that this government audit by Musk was a campaign promise from President Trump. The majority of America voted yes for this!

[@williamsmith306]

I still don't buy it, sorry. It sounds like someone convinently found that one tiny legitimate paint brush with which to paint the whole thing legitimate with. Time will tell I can wait.

[@jayb7503]

Who authorize them to single out certain network then? Why not blanket it including fox and right wing media? Oh that’s right because they wanted certain narrative

[@jarchewa85]

I think you're missing the point of this DOGE audit, Robby. You're just nitpicking.

[@brasidas2011]

Premium Politico is just an easy way for them to provide lobbyist contact data to subscribers. Why does USAID need that?

[@k.s.nichols4060]

Robby is right, but why is the government paying private companies to find out about the government?

[@billngatuere8775]

Absolutely hilarious how these two clowns try their darndest to extricate, Politico & the Hill from USAID.

[@TonyGizer]

Look up the word, "fungible".

[@thefunksoulplumber22]

It is not about the message you are bringing, it's the acting that comes along with it. Your system is crumbling where you think your view is stronger than that of the people and you are quite mistaken. We can tell you are frustrated with the doom and gloom your producers put onto you, but the rest of us having fun seeing common sense return and hopefully free speech

[@ValuableShort]

Amen!

[@DCelente]

Explain why money is funneled through thousands of NGO’s? I’m waiting boys……

[@billchadwell2319]

$2,000 to $13,000+ a year for a yearly subscription? Lol the government cant keep tract of their own regulatory notifications?

[@TexasVagabond]

That’s my question. Why does the federal government need to pay for a subscription service that informs them of what they are doing. I know departments act independent of one another, but it seems any laws or regulations that affect a department could be sent automatically to them once it becomes active. We live in a world of technology, but why use it if they can just rip off taxpayers?

[@aprilized]

Come on... how do you think money laundering works? Do you think that gov't workers need 100+ $30 000 pro subscriptions? I'm disappointed with you, really.

[@tteegarden]

Keep your head in the sand Robby

[@jimh3500]

My fellow Libertarian leaning Republicans, let’s hold the line when the elected RINOs start to squirm.

[@danielrutschman4618]

"Paid subscriptions don't 'fund' Politico." As a staunch defender of capitalism how can you make such a ignorant argument about how business works, Robby? You just lost a lot of credibility.

[@bropitt]

how about 0 dollars spent on Politico

[@richardgarzon977]

Of course its a huge story.. at worst why wouldn't gov negotiate a fixed rate. $8 million is an obvious payoff

[@amlord3826]

The government is changing regulations "minute by minute" but has no mechanism for letting itself know about these changes? Does anyone else see a problem with this?

[@TheSpokenWizard]

Politico should be paying the government for access, not the other way around.

[@brianevans5616]

You both sound as if you're on USAID payroll too.

[@spalding1968]

hang on !!! the question remains how you justify spending $8 million dollars on premium news ?????? How can you justify a membership of $10000-$20000 per year for news no matter how upto date that news is ? Thats still massive government waste !!!

[@Turtle_dove_voltiare]

Math doesn’t math

[@ashleyvmoore]

investigate the hill its clear they are also on the payroll

[@victorGarcia-cw8mq]

The hill is reporting on this particular podcast that it is okay. The government pays a news outlet

[@danielbauer9027]

Insert meme of cartoon dog sipping tea whist flames engulf cafe, saying "This is fine".

[@jf_knows_nothing]

I love how the comments are just roasting this… “ but wait it wasn’t technically just handed to them”…duh that’s how money laundering works lol.

[@Dallascountryband]

Robby, does politico post pro democrat media? Are they against Trump? You just played yourself.