Rubio: Biden State Dept Had Dossier on Trump Official

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a Cabinet meeting Wednesday that the Biden administration had been keeping a dossier on “at least one” current member of the Trump leadership team, the Hill first reported.

Rubio did not announce the name of the individual, nor the particulars of the documentation but did indicate it was someone in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and had been identified by the previous State Department as a “purveyor of disinformation.”

“Was it me or Elon?” someone in the room off camera quipped. Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk fell out of favor with Democrats following his embrace of then-candidate Donald Trump in 2024.  In May of 2022, the Biden administration briefly flirted with a separate task force on disinformation to combat alternative views following the purchase of what was then Twitter by Musk. The “Disinformation Governance Board” was led by Nina Jankowicz who the Biden White House labeled a “disinformation expert.”

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