EPA tried to discredit retirees after The Washington Post published their criticisms
By Joe Davidson
July 27 at 7:00 AM
When you have a liar in the White House, it should be no surprise when mendacity afflicts the agencies.
The current case involves an effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to denigrate retirees who spent decades serving taxpayers.
Documents obtained through a lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility demonstrate how the EPA sought to counter unfavorable stories by going after retirees with false information. That effort involved the White House, Republican National Committee and conservative media.
Calling the EPA’s Office of Public Affairs “a nasty fake news factory,” PEER said the agency worked to “discredit employees who sounded the alarm as they left the agency” in 2017. PEER general counsel Paula Dinerstein said the documents obtained through a lawsuit against the EPA “detail distasteful disinformation campaigns directed against distinguished public servants.”
Speaking of disinformation, it flows from President Trump at an amazing and dangerous clip. He made 3,251 false or misleading claims in the first 497 days of his presidency, according to The Washington Post Fact Checker. That’s 6.5 a day — quite an example for his staff.
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