Washington, D.C (Special to ZennieReport.com) Clearly anything but done in his effort to remake America via Executive Order and bypass Congress (let’s see how that works), President Donald Trump has signed an another illegal executive order – this one that goes after The Voice of America.
Yep.
The organization that is The Voice of America is part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the government agency that oversees all non-military, U.S. international broadcasting. The Voice of America is funded by the U.S. Congress, and that’s why Trump’s Executive Order is illegal.
For decades The Voice of America has been relentlessly non-partisan, but in it’s completely wacko lens of the World, The Trump Administration sees the organization as “radical”. To the end of stopping that noise, all worker have been placed on paid leave or until a judge steps in and tells the Trump Administration to send them back to the office.
“The Voice of Radical America” Says Trump
The Trump Administration press release reads as follows and is a result of cherry picking here and there to prove an untenable point:
President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on Friday will ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.
Dan Robinson, a 34-year veteran of Voice of America and its former White House correspondent, wrote last year: “I have monitored the agency’s bureaucracy along with many of its reporters and concluded that it has essentially become a hubris-filled rogue operation often reflecting a leftist bias aligned with partisan national media. It has sought to avoid accountability for violations of journalistic standards and mismanagement.”
- Voice of America’s management told staff not to call Hamas and its members terrorists, “except when quoting statements.”
- Daily Caller: “Multiple Voice Of America Reporters Have Posted Anti-Trump Content On Social Media”
- “Multiple Voice of America (VOA) reporters have repeatedly posted anti-Trump comments on their professional Twitter accounts, despite a social media policy requiring employee impartiality on social media platforms.”
- Rep. Scott Perry wrote in a 2022 letter that Voice of America has “grown exceedingly partisan over the past several years.”
- A 2016 report from Office of Personnel Management cited by Rep. Perry revealed that Voice of America Persian employees said that outlet tolerated “coercion for partisan political purposes.”
- The Washington Free Beacon: “VOA Misallocates Funds and Suppresses Negative Stories About Iran. This Lawmaker Wants To Investigate.”
- Voice of America: “What Is ‘White Privilege’ and Whom Does It Help?”
- “Today, the phrase is used passionately and widely in the context of racial profiling — police treatment of people as criminal suspects based on their race.”
- A 2022 lawsuit claimed Voice of America has “been infiltrated by anti-American, pro-Islamic state interests, and that the message of VOA had been compromised in a manner that was biased toward the Islamic state factions in Iran.”
- In October 2020, Voice of America wrote that the “allegations that Russia played a role in perpetuating the scandal to benefit Trump could undermine the emails’ credibility” downplaying the validity of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
- In July 2020, Voice of America faced criticism for “sharing a story and video appearing too favorable to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.”
- In September 2019, the Daily Caller reported that Voice of America employed a Russian anti-U.S. propagandist.
- In May 2019, Voice of America fired reporters for their roles in canceling a broadcast midstream after pressure from the Chinese government.
- In March 2019, Voice of America ran a segment about transgender migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
President Trump’s Claim That The Voice Of America Is “Radical” Not Backed By Evidence
A simple online review calls into question President Trump’s claim that the Voice of America is the picture of “radical media”. The survey platform AllSides reports that “Voice of America (VOA) is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Center.” Then it continues:
Respondents who rated their own bias as Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, or Right, all rated Voice of America as Center, on average. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents rated Voice of America as Center.
A total of 618 people across the political spectrum took the survey. Each survey participant was asked to self-report their personal political bias – 45 participants with a self-reported Left bias; 158 with a Lean Left bias; 184 with a Center bias; 178 with a Lean Right bias, and 53 with a Right bias took the survey.
But while that’s the case, the Voice of America is told to get paid for being silent. Here’s Phil Williams:
Donald Trump is determined to destroy America, and has declared war against it. That’s Treason, and he should be punished. Meanwhile. The Voice Of America Executive Order will be reversed because, like many of Trump’s E.O.s, it’s illegal.