Trump Administration Revoked Award for Female Journalist Who Criticized Him, Says Watchdog
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Trump Administration Revoked Award for Female Journalist Who Criticized Him, Says Watchdog
Fri, September 25, 2020, 11:43 AM EDTThe inspector general’s office obtained meeting notes that showed senior U.S. officials saying Aro’s invitation to the State Department’s International Women of Courage Awards should be withdrawn. The acting director of the Office of Global Women’s Issues noted that Aro had made social media posts criticizing Trump and the “media could highlight the tweets and Facebook posts during the ceremony.” The reasoning was that if the posts were highlighted, it would embarrass the department, as well as first lady Melania Trump, who was involved with the awards. The press highlighted the posts anyway: Foreign Policy reported last year that Aro’s award had been canceled due to her criticism.
A State Department spokesperson said in an email to Foreign Policy at the time that Aro was “incorrectly notified” that she would be getting the award, calling it a mistake caused by “a lack of coordination in communications with candidates and our embassies.” The IG report found that Aro’s work on Russian propaganda had been selected, but, as Foreign Policy reported in 2019, she was booted from the list after her social media posts were discovered.
Aro told Foreign Policy that the withdrawal left her feeling “appalled and surprised.”
“The reality in which political decisions or presidential pettiness directs top U.S. diplomats’ choices over whose human rights work is mentioned in the public sphere and whose is not is a really scary reality,” she said at the time.
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trumpturd is such a vengeful, hateful, petty, vindictive, whiny little bitch.
It's the micro-petty-shit that really defines him.
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Guess someone missed this...................
Sound reasonable to me............but that's........oh hell no It's a lot of people. LOL
Senior US officials under trumpturd.
Of course, no criticism of trumpturd is allowed.
That was already done by the article inserting Trump into the headline. And, once again, we have a story dug up for something that happened a year ago. But, i guess if one digs hard enough, one can find something and do an article on it like it happened yesterday. Not disputing the source, more like the timing............again.
Looks like the State department and Office of Global Women’s Issues.........but of course, "Trump Administration" Trump in a headline draws the moths to the flame.
The shit is never ending when it comes to trumpturd.
Never ending trumpturd splanations.
Breaking news, read all about it!!
LOL
I protest
Now that it is known that he did not take his own S.A.T's, his degree should be also revoked.
He didn't? He really is an asswipe