{"id":1471676,"date":"2022-05-11T13:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471676"},"modified":"2022-05-11T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T17:15:47","slug":"sen-rand-paul-reaffirms-criticism-of-the-biden-admin-s-disinformation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-reaffirms-criticism-of-the-biden-admin-s-disinformation-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rand Paul reaffirms criticism of the Biden admin.\u2019s disinformation board"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-rand-paul-reaffirms-criticism-of-the-biden-admin-s-disinformation-board%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471676&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2719698\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2719698\" id=\"longdesc-return-2719698\" class=\"wp-image-2719698 size-full\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/800-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com?longdesc=2719698&#038;referrer=2719691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/800-1-1.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/800-1-315x210-1-1.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/800-1-656x437-1.jpeg 656w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/800-1-768x512-1-1.jpeg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2719698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this March 5, 2019 file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., pauses during a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Paul says he underwent lung surgery in a procedure he says stems from injuries suffered when a neighbor tackled him outside his home in 2017. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster, FIle)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:00 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, May 10, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reaffirmed his criticism of the Biden administration\u2019s disinformation board in a tweet Monday. Paul reiterated the government is responsible for spreading misinformation for political purposes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t trust government to figure out what the truth is. Government is largely disseminating disinformation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GWZqBii8O1\">https:\/\/t.co\/GWZqBii8O1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1523682821319000065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes after the senator grilled Director of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over Democrats ongoing claims of Russian disinformation. Paul said the government can not be trusted to determine what disinformation is and what it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cAre you familiar with George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction?\u201d he asked. \u201cAre you familiar with the Iran Contra? Do you think the American people are so stupid, they need you to tell them what the truth is?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Paul stressed the government has lied to the American people so many times in the past that its claims about disinformation have no credibility whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/biden-revives-wwii-era-lend-lease-act-to-arm-ukraine\/\">Biden Revives WWII-Era Lend-Lease Act To Arm Ukraine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this March 5, 2019 file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":740,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}