Campaign to discredit Trump s enemies
The story was first broken by The New York Times, who were able to talk to several people involved in the operation. Veritas was reportedly encouraged to conduct the operations after Trump s frequent attacks on the FBI, CIA, State Department and others who he was convinced were trying to undermine him. The unelected deep-state operatives who defy the voters to push their own secret agendas, he said in 2018, are truly a threat to democracy itself.
It is unclear if anyone in the White House had knowledge of the efforts, but according to the Times, at least one person with access to McMaster s calendar was roped in. That was confirmed by Barbara Ledeen, a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ledeen was confirmed to have a role in the operations. Leeden told the Times, I am not part of a plot and insisted she was merely a messenger.
Biden, GOP senators optimistic, plan more infrastructure talks By: Associated Press May 14, 2021
8:47 am
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday in Washington. From the left are Secretary of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
By LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) After meeting at the White House, President Joe Biden and a group of Republican senators agreed to talk again early next week as negotiations intensified over a bipartisan infrastructure proposal that could become one piece of the administration’s ambitious $4 trillion public investment plan.