Well, this is embarrassing.

[berg80]

Fact check: Musk, Trump deceive about a Trump-era Pentagon contract for ‘social deception’ defense​

President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon defense contract that was awarded during Trump’s first presidency.

The $9.1 million contract was awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services, a company that provides “data-driven solutions” to the federal government and other clients, to work on defenses against “social engineering” cyberattacks, which use “social deception” tactics to trick humans. In a Wednesday social media post that didn’t explain what the contract was actually for, Musk insinuated that the Reuters news agency, which has the same parent company as Thomson Reuters Special Services, was paid by the government to engage in deception.

And neither Musk nor Trump, who made a Thursday post amplifying Musk’s claim, noted that the contract began under Trump in 2018.

Asked for comment, Thomson Reuters Special Services chief executive Steve Rubley said in a Thursday statement to CNN that “recent public discourse” has “inaccurately represented the nature of the business between TRSS and the Department of Defense,” and has incorrectly conflated Reuters News with TRSS, a separate legal entity that has its own board of directors and “operates independently from Reuters News.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/musk-trump-reuters-pentagon-defense-contract-fact-check/index.html

Elon's penchant for conspiracy theories got the better of him. He's just plain trying to hard to defend his reckless dismantling of the government. And trump, well, no one ever accused him of being familiar with the truth. He runs from it at every opportunity when he isn't trampling on it.

 

[MarathonMike]

Keep nit picking, DOGE is going to GUT the Pentagon and that is decades overdue. I grew near Washington D.C. and I worked for company that did Pentagon subcontracts. I remember my bosses laughing about how screwed up and bloated that place was. They called it the Puzzle Palace and that was in the late 70s!!

 

[Oddball]

XiNN & Reuters....Two purveyors of USAID agitprop...

 

[Rawley]

Fact check: Musk, Trump deceive about a Trump-era Pentagon contract for ‘social deception’ defense​

President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon defense contract that was awarded during Trump’s first presidency.

The $9.1 million contract was awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services, a company that provides “data-driven solutions” to the federal government and other clients, to work on defenses against “social engineering” cyberattacks, which use “social deception” tactics to trick humans. In a Wednesday social media post that didn’t explain what the contract was actually for, Musk insinuated that the Reuters news agency, which has the same parent company as Thomson Reuters Special Services, was paid by the government to engage in deception.

And neither Musk nor Trump, who made a Thursday post amplifying Musk’s claim, noted that the contract began under Trump in 2018.

Asked for comment, Thomson Reuters Special Services chief executive Steve Rubley said in a Thursday statement to CNN that “recent public discourse” has “inaccurately represented the nature of the business between TRSS and the Department of Defense,” and has incorrectly conflated Reuters News with TRSS, a separate legal entity that has its own board of directors and “operates independently from Reuters News.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/musk-trump-reuters-pentagon-defense-contract-fact-check/index.html

Elon's penchant for conspiracy theories got the better of him. He's just plain trying to hard to defend his reckless dismantling of the government. And trump, well, no one ever accused him of being familiar with the truth. He runs from it at every opportunity when he isn't trampling on it.

What was Musk and Trump's deception?

 

[toobfreak]

Well, this is embarrassing.​

What's wrong, Berg, come up a bit SHORT again last night? Trump and Musk are taking receipts no matter where the programs started or when, the important thing is that the program is not working as intended and in the greater picture, a mere 9 million dollar contract is CHUMP CHANGE compared to the billions and trillions in waste we are uncovering.

BOTTOM LINE is they are finding it; Biden found and did SQUAT.

 

[hjmick]

Fact check: Musk, Trump deceive about a Trump-era Pentagon contract for ‘social deception’ defense​

President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon defense contract that was awarded during Trump’s first presidency.

The $9.1 million contract was awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services, a company that provides “data-driven solutions” to the federal government and other clients, to work on defenses against “social engineering” cyberattacks, which use “social deception” tactics to trick humans. In a Wednesday social media post that didn’t explain what the contract was actually for, Musk insinuated that the Reuters news agency, which has the same parent company as Thomson Reuters Special Services, was paid by the government to engage in deception.

And neither Musk nor Trump, who made a Thursday post amplifying Musk’s claim, noted that the contract began under Trump in 2018.

Asked for comment, Thomson Reuters Special Services chief executive Steve Rubley said in a Thursday statement to CNN that “recent public discourse” has “inaccurately represented the nature of the business between TRSS and the Department of Defense,” and has incorrectly conflated Reuters News with TRSS, a separate legal entity that has its own board of directors and “operates independently from Reuters News.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/musk-trump-reuters-pentagon-defense-contract-fact-check/index.html

Elon's penchant for conspiracy theories got the better of him. He's just plain trying to hard to defend his reckless dismantling of the government. And trump, well, no one ever accused him of being familiar with the truth. He runs from it at every opportunity when he isn't trampling on it.

Embarrassing to whom? Sure as hell it's not the two people referenced in your post. People who lack shame and a conscience rarely, if ever, feel embarrassed.

 

[Oddball]

Embarrassing to whom? Sure as hell it's not the two people referenced in your post. People who lack shame and a conscience rarely, if ever, feel embarrassed.

You really think those who are on the receiving end of gubmint payola are going to tell you the truth?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Fact check: Musk, Trump deceive about a Trump-era Pentagon contract for ‘social deception’ defense​

President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon defense contract that was awarded during Trump’s first presidency.

The $9.1 million contract was awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services, a company that provides “data-driven solutions” to the federal government and other clients, to work on defenses against “social engineering” cyberattacks, which use “social deception” tactics to trick humans. In a Wednesday social media post that didn’t explain what the contract was actually for, Musk insinuated that the Reuters news agency, which has the same parent company as Thomson Reuters Special Services, was paid by the government to engage in deception.

And neither Musk nor Trump, who made a Thursday post amplifying Musk’s claim, noted that the contract began under Trump in 2018.

Asked for comment, Thomson Reuters Special Services chief executive Steve Rubley said in a Thursday statement to CNN that “recent public discourse” has “inaccurately represented the nature of the business between TRSS and the Department of Defense,” and has incorrectly conflated Reuters News with TRSS, a separate legal entity that has its own board of directors and “operates independently from Reuters News.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/musk-trump-reuters-pentagon-defense-contract-fact-check/index.html

Elon's penchant for conspiracy theories got the better of him. He's just plain trying to hard to defend his reckless dismantling of the government. And trump, well, no one ever accused him of being familiar with the truth. He runs from it at every opportunity when he isn't trampling on it.

Right. Reuters operates independently of Reuters!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Fact check: Musk, Trump deceive about a Trump-era Pentagon contract for ‘social deception’ defense​

President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon defense contract that was awarded during Trump’s first presidency.

The $9.1 million contract was awarded to Thomson Reuters Special Services, a company that provides “data-driven solutions” to the federal government and other clients, to work on defenses against “social engineering” cyberattacks, which use “social deception” tactics to trick humans. In a Wednesday social media post that didn’t explain what the contract was actually for, Musk insinuated that the Reuters news agency, which has the same parent company as Thomson Reuters Special Services, was paid by the government to engage in deception.

And neither Musk nor Trump, who made a Thursday post amplifying Musk’s claim, noted that the contract began under Trump in 2018.

Asked for comment, Thomson Reuters Special Services chief executive Steve Rubley said in a Thursday statement to CNN that “recent public discourse” has “inaccurately represented the nature of the business between TRSS and the Department of Defense,” and has incorrectly conflated Reuters News with TRSS, a separate legal entity that has its own board of directors and “operates independently from Reuters News.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/musk-trump-reuters-pentagon-defense-contract-fact-check/index.html

Elon's penchant for conspiracy theories got the better of him. He's just plain trying to hard to defend his reckless dismantling of the government. And trump, well, no one ever accused him of being familiar with the truth. He runs from it at every opportunity when he isn't trampling on it.

 

[MagicMike]

What was Musk and Trump's deception?

Rawley needs color pictures to understand.