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Is Elon Musk Staging a Coup? Billionaire Seizes Control at Treasury Dept.
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huh, I'm definitely not finding that anywhere ...
I wish I could find one of the articles, because I sent a link of one to a buddy of mine who works with a trans girl who's a MAGA idiot so he could show her what Trump thinks of people like us. But there's a reason that he spews so much garbage every day, and it's for this exact circumstance - to overwhelm and bury us in a constant stream of outrage.
maybe, but there are advanced methods of searching that allow you to filter by exact phrases or key-words, to search within a particular timeline, etc. and nothing with the word "genocide" is showing up associated with Trump and trans people even going back months and years. Do you know who published the article, like what website it may have come from? Anything to help narrow the search can be helpful.
Unfortunately, I don't. I remember seeing 2 articles immediately pop up when I searched for a link for my friend, but I couldn't tell you what news sites they were and when I tried to find them again I had the same results as everyone else - I couldn't find the articles about that quote, just generalized statements possibly implying it, at most.
It was back in December, though, after the election, and it came from somebody in his administration, not Trump specifically, which makes it harder to find. Especially with the ongoing flurry of anti-trans legislation being passed right now.
I searched through several pages of search results for every explicit mention of "genocide" between December 1st and December 31st of 2024, but without reference to Gaza, Palestine, Rwanda, or Uyghur.
At some point most of the results are just instagram and tiktok links - most of the news articles are in the first page of results. Nothing mentions trans or gender, etc.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22genocide%22+-Gaza+-Palestine+-Rwanda+-Uyghur&t=ffab&df=2024-12-01..2024-12-31&ia=web
I tried lots of other searches, such as just looking for Trump official or Trump administration official, etc.
This was notable, but genocide is not explicitly mentioned: https://glaad.org/trumps-nominees/
There was a lot of talk about Trump's nominees for various positions in December, could the article have been related to that?
Was the person who said it a part of Trump's prior administration? (Trump had no administration in December.)
They could have been, I honestly have no idea. Not only has it been roughly a couple of months since I saw it, but I don't think the person quoted was ever explicitly named.