Sen. Chris Murphy (D – Tehran) doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo that the famine hoax has fallen apart and Hamas tossed it aside after the Biden – Witkoff deal allows it to claim victory.
But after the Trump administration froze the gravy train of aid, including $50 million in condoms for Gaza, Sen. Murphy tweeted that “It’s a lie. Made up. There was no U.S. funding for condoms in Gaza. What he stopped is programs to keep malnourished babies alive in Gaza. Aid groups say infants will start to die next week.”
Everyone knows the perpetually malnourished infants in Gaza can’t live without condoms. That then get turned into bombs.
In fact the government’s own website shows $45 million being sent to the UNFPA to “SUPPORT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) CARE CLOSE TO THE DISPLACED POPULATIONS” under the State Department’s BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION. The UNFPA is the United Nations Population Fund which acts as the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.
None of this has anything to do with ‘malnourished babies’.
The media quickly went into ‘fact check’ mode.
Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true – CNN
Trump Administration Makes Unsupported Claim About $50 Million for Condoms to Gaza – Fact Check
The ‘fact checking’ had the media play its usual game of declaring that the claim was ‘unsupported’, nitpicking at the details and diverting attention away to the International Medical Corps for Gaza (which is where Sen. Murphy got his starving babies nonsense) and direct shipments rather than the UNFPA.
This is a game that the media’s fact-checking ops routinely play. It’s called playing dumb.
Biden’s former guy on the scene came closest to admitting the truth.
Andrew Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under former US president Joe Biden, calls the claim “outlandish.”
“It’s possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,” he tells The Times of Israel.
Multiple lefty sites (and CATO’s libertarian Reason spam factory) quoted Miller’s ‘outlandish’ claim, but not his follow-up admission. It appears to even be reasonably accurate in that the $50 million didn’t just cover condoms, but ‘sexual health programs’ aimed at various forms of birth control.
Selectively quoting Miller demonstrated the media’s calculated dishonesty.