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Satire masquerading as scandal

This is theater built on a tiny grain of fact. Yes, Biden drew down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve heavily in 2022, which is defensible policy (released oil during price spikes) but politically terrible. Some sites had maintenance issues. But the quoted tweet then warps this into: Biden personally oiled himself on a beach, snuck into Trump's bedroom to inflate his body, and rewrote the English language. The whole thing is conspiracy fiction dressed up as outrage. The maddening part is how it works. Start with one real problem, add six invented ones, repeat it enough times, and people stop distinguishing between the grain of truth and the fiction wrapped around it. Trump gets to claim cleanup heroism on a problem that's actually about managing a strategic reserve, not defeating sabotage.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
🚨 WTF?! It's been exposed that the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been DESTROYED by the Biden admin, with one site left "INOPERABLE," forcing President Trump to clean up the mess and surge investments to fix everything "The previous administration also left one of the four sites in operable...this forced the Trump administration to invest more money to move equipment that blocked access to that site." "They purchased equipment and left it on surface and did not install it. Some of that equipment, due to the weather it was exposed to, is no longer useful. So we've completely wasted taxpayer dollars on that equipment that the last administration sat on surface and didn't install." "They also failed to maintain some of the sites." "The Biden administration drained it of 180 million barrels before the midterm elections in 2022 and never fully refilled it." Trump is CLEANING UP the mess YEARS after Democrats made it!
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