The Voice of Radical America

By The White House | Created at 2025-03-15 23:00:08 | Updated at 2025-03-16 20:25:49 21 hours ago

President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on Friday will ensure that taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.

Dan Robinson, a 34-year veteran of Voice of America and its former White House correspondent, wrote last year: “I have monitored the agency’s bureaucracy along with many of its reporters and concluded that it has essentially become a hubris-filled rogue operation often reflecting a leftist bias aligned with partisan national media. It has sought to avoid accountability for violations of journalistic standards and mismanagement.”

  • Voice of America’s management told staff not to call Hamas and its members terrorists, “except when quoting statements.”
  • Daily Caller: “Multiple Voice Of America Reporters Have Posted Anti-Trump Content On Social Media”
    • “Multiple Voice of America (VOA) reporters have repeatedly posted anti-Trump comments on their professional Twitter accounts, despite a social media policy requiring employee impartiality on social media platforms.”
  • Rep. Scott Perry wrote in a 2022 letter that Voice of America has “grown exceedingly partisan over the past several years.”
    • A 2016 report from Office of Personnel Management cited by Rep. Perry revealed that Voice of America Persian employees said that outlet tolerated “coercion for partisan political purposes.”
    • The Washington Free Beacon: “VOA Misallocates Funds and Suppresses Negative Stories About Iran. This Lawmaker Wants To Investigate.”
  • Voice of America: “What Is ‘White Privilege’ and Whom Does It Help?”
    • “Today, the phrase is used passionately and widely in the context of racial profiling — police treatment of people as criminal suspects based on their race.”
  • A 2022 lawsuit claimed Voice of America has “been infiltrated by anti-American, pro-Islamic state interests, and that the message of VOA had been compromised in a manner that was biased toward the Islamic state factions in Iran.”
  • In October 2020, Voice of America wrote that the “allegations that Russia played a role in perpetuating the scandal to benefit Trump could undermine the emails’ credibility” downplaying the validity of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
  • In July 2020, Voice of America faced criticism for “sharing a story and video appearing too favorable to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.”
  • In September 2019, the Daily Caller reported that Voice of America employed a Russian anti-U.S. propagandist.
  • In May 2019, Voice of America fired reporters for their roles in canceling a broadcast midstream after pressure from the Chinese government.
  • In March 2019, Voice of America ran a segment about transgender migrants seeking asylum in the United States.
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