'Scandal' Is Object Lesson on How Coordinated Propaganda Campaigns Workhttps://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/04/18/catholic-charities-scandal-is-object-lesson-on-how-coordinated-propaganda-campaigns-work-n3814048Ten days ago, Democratic strategist and consiglieri David Axelrod met with the Pope for a nice chat.
The meeting was notable for a number of reasons, not least that Axelrod is Jewish, not Catholic. His audience with the Pope is, we are told, at least tangentially related to a potential visit from Barack Obama to meet with the Pope. Obama is not Catholic, and one wonders why there needs to be negotiations with the Pope directly about a potential meeting between a former president and the leader of the Catholic Church.
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All of this would be of only minor interest but for the fact that almost immediately subsequent to that meeting, the Pope went on the warpath against Donald Trump. His comments weren't vague and weren't even consistent with Catholic doctrine. Asserting that God doesn't listen to soldiers on the battlefield was a remarkably odd statement, inconsistent with centuries of Catholic doctrine.
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Above all, the oddest thing has been his arguing that Lebanon and Algeria are examples of how Christians and Muslims can live together. In both places, Christians have been persecuted by Muslims, both killed and driven out of the lands by Muslims who are quite clear that Christians aren't welcome.
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After the kerfuffle with the Pope, a story popped up strongly implying that Trump canceled a contract with Catholic Charities to manage the care of unaccompanied minor illegal aliens, amounting to many millions of dollars of revenue lost.
Almost everything about the story was false, most especially the implication that the timing suggested that it was pure retaliation.
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There are many reasons why this story cannot possibly be as portrayed by the propagandists, not the least of which is that the cancellation took place weeks before there was any back and forth between Trump and the Pope. There simply could be no connection, unless you believe that Trump is clairvoyant.
Trump may be magic, but not that magic.
The idea that Robert Prevost's (Leo XIV's) attacks were coordinated via Axelrod is certainly a CT, but the context is at least suggestive. Axelrod appears to be a non-religious Jew - raised in a liberal Jewish synagogue, but no public religious involvement, educationally or in public action.
Axelrod and Prevost and Axelrod have both been active in Chicago.
Even before being elected Pope, Prevost had been very publicly anti-Trump. The timing, the attacks starting after Axelrod's visit rather than in the immediate aftermath of the war on Iran is obviously suggestive.
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