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crickets

(25,983 posts)
2. Everything trump touches dies.
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 07:22 PM
Aug 2020

In this case, the killing of VOA is intentional.

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/18/21295549/trump-bannon-pack-global-media-china-wednesday-massacre

Trump and Steve Bannon want to turn a US-funded global media network into Breitbart 2.0
Michael Pack’s purge of the US Agency for Global Media, and his effort to produce tough-on-China journalism, explained.

Gee, wonder how involved Bannon is now?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213674450

Does this explain the recent purges at VOA?
BUSTED: Trump engaged in 3-week ‘flurry of communication’ with Putin this year – and the White House hid some of the calls
Published 4 hours ago on June 29, 2020 By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

“President Donald Trump engaged in an unprecedented – and previously unknown – “flurry of communication” with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a three-week period earlier this year, according to a sister-network of Voice of America.” [with links]

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