Leavitt RUNS TO HIDE This Trump Video … IT STILL LEAKS!
The Transparency Lie: Trump’s Blacklist, Hegseth’s Crimes, and the Crisis of Accountability
The most egregious and sustained lie peddled by the Donald Trump administration and its acolytes is the notion that they represent the pinnacle of transparency in American history. This assertion is not just false; it is a grotesque reversal of reality, a desperate attempt to gaslight the public while the administration is actively engaged in cover-ups concerning everything from Trump’s own health to the still-shrouded secrets of the Epstein files.
The brazen hypocrisy hit a new low with the actions of a senior aide who was caught deleting a pathetic, authoritarian video designed to openly attack and “blacklist” journalists. This isn’t transparency; this is the predictable playbook of a weak, insecure regime trying to control the narrative by declaring the press “the enemy.”
📰 The Authoritarian Blacklist and the Attack on Media Trust
The deleted White House video—a low-effort, AI-generated piece of “slop”—featured a “naughty list” scroll naming prominent journalists and outlets, including CNN’s Jake Tapper and MS Now reporters. The stunt, described by a legal expert as “positively authoritarian,” is not a joke. It is a deliberate, calculated campaign to erode trust in the media, a strategy that authoritarians have historically deployed as a precursor to more severe suppression.
This effort to malign the press is doubly ironic given the administration’s own penchant for misinformation and its persistent shielding of critical information. They claim the media is “untrustworthy” because of a supposed “left-leaning bias,” but the real issue is the billionaire ownership that pushes corporate propaganda, and, crucially, the press’s willingness to hold power accountable—a scrutiny the current administration desperately seeks to avoid.
The hypocrisy is further underscored by the bizarre, drunken-sounding defense offered by Secretary Pete Hegseth, who wrongly blames the press for leaking sensitive information. Hegseth wants the public to believe that reporters are obtaining and sharing classified data, when, in reality, leaks like the sensitive Signal chat information were not published by journalists, proving his narrative is a cynical fabrication. The White House’s decision to publish a list mocking its critics, and then hastily delete it, is the height of embarrassment—it demonstrates their malicious intent while simultaneously revealing their amateurish incompetence.
💣 Hegseth’s Reckless Incompetence and the Specter of War Crimes
The media assault serves as a perfect distraction from the truly dangerous scandals plaguing the administration, chief among them the catastrophic failures of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Senator Mark Warner painted a chilling picture of an official whose actions have directly and repeatedly endangered American service members and undermined global trust in the U.S. military.
Endangering Troops: Hegseth initially “screwed up” by using classified information on a personal device, an action the Inspector General determined put troops in harm’s way.
Political Purge: He has repeatedly tried to fire uniformed military and intelligence professionals for purely political reasons, disrupting the non-partisan function of the intelligence community.
The War Crime Policy: Most horrifying is the policy of equating drug runners with terrorist organizations like ISIS and al-Qaeda, which authorized the second strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As Senator Warner noted, the legal theory is nonsensical, especially coming from an administration that pardons actual drug traffickers. The shocking video of the strike, which Trump promised to release and then will likely suppress, raises the serious possibility of a war crime, an act with catastrophic ramifications for America’s reputation abroad.
Hegseth’s tenure is a masterclass in incompetence. He is a man who would have been fired multiple times in any prior administration. The fact that he was narrowly confirmed—with JD Vance casting the deciding vote—has forced the nation to pay for his reckless abandon. The private concerns of Republican colleagues, who are forced to rely on Democrats to be their “conscience,” shows a party paralyzed by its own fealty to Trump, slowly starting to crack under the moral weight of Hegseth’s actions.
💡 The Forward-Leaning Failure: AI, Oligarchs, and the Generational Divide
Senator Warner’s conversation also exposed the administration’s catastrophic lack of vision for the future, particularly concerning Artificial Intelligence. The administration’s goal appears to be letting “tech oligarchs run wild” by pushing for a completely unregulated AI industry. This isn’t just about privacy; it’s an economic and social emergency.
Job Dislocation: Warner projects that AI will be a massive job killer, particularly for those straight out of college. He warns that the current 9% unemployment rate for recent college graduates could skyrocket to 25%—a rate disproportionately higher than the rest of the workforce—creating a massive cohort of disillusioned young people and angry parents who financed expensive, now-devalued degrees.
Cost and Regulation: Trump’s deregulation agenda fails to address who pays for the massive electricity consumption of data centers—a cost that will inevitably be passed onto consumers—or the urgent need for guardrails against chatbots encouraging self-harm in children.
The administration’s anti-future stance is compounded by the larger, generational crisis of representation in government. While Senator Warner defended his own re-election bid based on a record of delivery, energy, and the ability to fight against an authoritarian Trump agenda, the underlying frustration of voters—who are rightfully wary of nonagenarian governance—remains valid.
Ultimately, the confluence of these crises—the open assault on the free press, the flagrant incompetence that risks war crimes, and the ideological paralysis regarding the future of AI—demonstrates that the Trump administration’s only claim to transparency is its openness in pursuing an authoritarian, anti-accountability agenda that serves only the most powerful.
