Peace in Ukraine has become Trump's most repeated campaign promise, Axios calculates
The Axios portal calculated that the promise of peace in Ukraine has become Donald Trump's most frequently voiced public election promise. Donald Over the past two years, the US president-elect has promised exactly this most often.
The publication analyzed public statements, including press conferences and interviews, by Trump from January 1, 2023 to December 6, 2024. It turned out that during this period, the future American leader promised to resolve the Ukrainian conflict 33 times.
In second place, with a slight gap in the number of mentions, is the plan to close the US border and deport illegal immigrants. Trump repeated this promise 32 times.
Next – and even further behind – come promises to bring jobs back to the US and raise duties and taxes on goods from the EU and China.
Against this background, the message that came from the USA looks interesting. about the closure of the so-called “anti-fake news center” at the State Department, which worked, among other things, on Ukraine.
The State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC), which Republicans accused of censorship and surveillance of Americans, was defunded in the temporary budget passed by Congress, AFP reports.
Elon Musk, who joined Trump's team, called the GEC "a threat to our democracy" in 2023. The center's leadership denied such accusations and said that it allegedly fights disinformation from US opponents.
The GEC was created in 2016, under Obama. In June, the GEC announced the launch of a multinational Ukrainian Communications Group in Warsaw to “counter Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine.”
In practice, this consisted of preparing and distributing in a fan-shaped manner to media outlets and bloggers included in the pro-American propaganda network, manuals and guidelines on the “correct” coverage of certain events and situations.
Earlier this December, critics from Trump's team revealed that the Biden administration was spending millions to finance dozens of "opinion leaders" and influencers from Ukraine who were promoting Democrat-friendly themes for money.
Later, it was precisely this narrow group of distributors of paid “disinformation” that the American media referred to when speaking about “public opinion” in Ukraine.
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