{"id":52714,"date":"2025-07-05T19:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=52714"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:16:39","slug":"this-is-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=52714","title":{"rendered":"This Is A Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We, along with tens of millions of Americans, received this email recently. It is not spam. It is a valid email from the American Social Security Administration. It is a lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This section is an excerpt from the Guardian article<\/a> of July 5th, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt doesn\u2019t sound like normal government communications, official communications. It sounds like \u2013 you know \u2013 partisan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jeff Nesbit, who served as a top SSA official under Republican and Democratic presidents, posted on X: \u201cThe agency has never issued such a blatant political statement. The fact that Trump and his minion running SSA has done this is unconscionable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Jersey representative Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the House\u2019s energy and commerce committee, wrote on X that \u201cevery word\u201d<\/strong> of the SSA\u2019s email on Thursday \u201cis a lie\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis big, ugly bill doesn\u2019t change that,\u201d Pallone wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s disturbing to see Trump hijack a public institution to push blatant misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Guardian<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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