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Media Watch · The White House · Sourced Claims

Sydney Sweeney Targeted by the White House? One Source Is Threatening to Blow the Whistle

A senior administration official says the President’s tastes have changed — and that the messaging is expected to change with them.

An illustration of the President at the Resolute desk, pointing at a tablet propped up in front of him showing a red-carpet photograph of an actress.
Photographed — The President reviewing promotional stills in the Oval Office, in an image the White House declined to authenticate.Photo: Supplied

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The textile analyst this paper retained compared the pleats and found that the gold hanging in the disputed frame — the one your uncle captioned “Obama’s Muslim prayer curtains” — is not the East Room curtain, and no federal office will produce the invoice for whatever it is.

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