Donald Trump’s administration is planning to spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in Europe, part of a package of at least $25 million for civil society groups working on conservative causes in the region, according to four people familiar with the funding.
The grants risk deepening tensions between the Trump administration and European governments, some of which have already accused Washington of interfering in their domestic politics.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) says the funding is meant to strengthen transatlantic ties and promote free speech. It comes as European countries prepare for elections over the next couple of years, and as the Trump administration openly backs Europe’s populist right-wing and far-right parties.
So they’re funding the right-wing…
This is how those with the power have done it for ages and want it to remain. Scapegoat minorities and immigrants for all issues, make people angry, offer only hope of fix is to double down and be more harsh, austerity, sacrifice for country, etc, which gets more people fearful and go against what actually works better for healthy humanity, and for the dictatorship. Look at other current countries and in the past, and how maga has caused regression on human health and democracy measures. It’s a pattern visible if you’re awake.
Which is definitely why there should be laws in place that are enforced and respected to prevent this obviously depraved behavior.
Isn’t this the shit they accuse Soros of?
And Russia
You don’t understand. They say Soros uses his own money. Trump is using ours.
I don’t know why that’s better, but it seems to be.
I made a meme echoing the hypocrisy and double standards of the right. They’re asleep when billionaires fund apocalypse-accelerating movements but roar when it’s billionaires funding progressives.
Why are tax dollars being spent for this? This is bullshit.
If Europe made a similar statement about bolstering left wing media in the US he’d go nuts accusing them of election interference.
That is actually a stroke of brilliance.
4 million is a lot of money, but it is also a pathetically low amount if you’re trying to make a dent in European politics
In fact, there are so many leftists in Europe -who would jump at the chance of publicly humiliating Trump- that I honestly believe you could raise 4 million just by starting some sort of kickstarter.
They literally did this with a Canadian commercial airing a Raegan area
terrortariff statement and tried to blame us for interfering.Their kettle is charred.
Edit- Corrected spelling
They’re going to use that to grow lemmy.
Laughable amount compared to what Russia is spending on disinformation outlets in the EU. I am pretty confident that they would fund mostly those that are already supported plentifully by Russia anyway.
Lol $4 million. Good luck getting literally anything done in that space with such a small amount.
like an iceberg, what you can see (the $4m) is just a tiny part.
