This past Sunday’s 60 Minutes segment promoting German censorship as a model of good governance was easily the worst of this particular show. However, its segment on the Trump treatment of USAID shows 60 Minutes in its partisan propaganda mode. John Nolte’s Breitbart column lays out the propagandistic deceptions of the segment in “Disgraced ’60 Minutes’ Misleads Viewers on USAID Staff Reductions” (links omitted). Here is the segment.
“Twelve days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were going to pay for their kids' daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight,” says Kristina Drye, who was fired in the USAID shutdown. https://t.co/cysOqteb8p pic.twitter.com/bUcOAnhMjs
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 17, 2025
Nolte writes:
The entire angle of the 60 Minutes clip below is a laughable attempt to turn public opinion against Trump and DOGE because those poor bureaucrats at USAID lost their oh-so-vital jobs.
Except.
Poor Kristina Drye and poor Adam Dubard are not USAID employees.
Granted, 60 Minutes doesn’t identify them as USAID employees, but there is no question the interview is rigged to make it sound as if they were. And nowhere in that clip or in the CBS News write-up are we told who they really are.
Drye was a USAID contractor who wrote speeches for Samantha Power, who was appointed to run USAID by the Biden administration.
Oh, and here is video from last week of Drye admitting that when DOGE entered the agency, she removed books that she “felt would be incriminating.”
Here is the Drye video Nolte embeds with his column.
ABC actually aired a USAID employee's description of the scramble as DOGE rolled up to the office, and their hurried removal of woke iconography a la the documents burning scene in Downfall:
"@DOGE was in the building. We started — we took down our pride flags, we took down- I… pic.twitter.com/gSsx3H6Mgc
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 4, 2025
Here are the two Drye videos side by side.
60 Minutes aired an interview of 2 USAID Contractors last night—one was Kristina Drye—the same woman ABC interviewed who confessed to taking “incriminating books” with her after @DOGE entered the USAID building.
Strangely, Kristina Drye has deleted her X account. pic.twitter.com/rMBantPFMb
— Lindsay Penney (@TexasLindsay_) February 17, 2025
Nolte continues with Adam Dubard’s sad story (not).
The United States would be better off if CBS News did not exist.
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