Trump Official Targeted In Biden-era 'disinformation' Dossier Still Under Wraps Days After Rubio Revelation

The Trump management has not revealed which management charismatic was targeted by nan Biden administration's State Department successful a "disinformation" dossier compiling erstwhile societal media posts that identified them arsenic "purveyors of disinformation."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed astatine nan astir caller Trump management Cabinet gathering April 30 that an unidentified Trump management charismatic who was coming had been nan taxable of a State Department dossier detailing alleged promotion of societal media "disinformation." 

Rubio, nan State Department and nan White House person not yet identified which charismatic nan Biden management targeted. Fox News Digital has reached retired many times to nan White House regarding nan personality of nan official, including connected Monday, but did not person replies. 

When asked for an update connected nan personality of nan Trump official, nan State Department directed Fox News Digital to Rubio's April 30 remark, detailing that, "We are going to beryllium turning complete these dossiers to nan individuals, and they’ll determine whether they want to disclose it aliases not."

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The Trump management has not revealed which management charismatic was targeted by nan Biden administration's State Department successful a "disinformation" dossier compiling erstwhile societal media posts that identified them arsenic "purveyors of disinformation." (Getty Images)

Rubio said during nan April 30 Cabinet gathering that a little-known, now-defunct agency wrong nan State Department called nan Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers connected Americans crossed nan state arsenic portion of an effort to "censor" free speech, including an individual who has since joined nan Trump administration. 

"We had an agency successful nan Department of State whose occupation it was to censor Americans," Rubio said during nan meeting. "And, by nan way, I'm not going to opportunity who it is. I'll time off it up to them. There's astatine slightest 1 personification astatine this array coming who had a dossier successful that building of societal media posts to place them arsenic purveyors of disinformation. We person these dossiers. We are going to beryllium turning those complete to these individuals." 

Vice President JD Vance interjected, asking, "Was it maine aliases Elon (Musk)? We tin travel up erstwhile nan media is gone," which drew laughter from nan Cabinet. 

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Cabinet gathering April 30. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

"But conscionable deliberation astir that. The Department of State of nan United States had group up an agency to show nan societal media posts and commentary of American citizens, to place them arsenic vectors of disinformation," Rubio continued. "When we cognize that nan champion measurement to combat disinformation is state of reside and transparency."

Though Rubio did not place which Trump charismatic the Biden management kept a dossier on, Elon Musk has antecedently railed against nan Global Engagement Center. 

"The worst offender successful US authorities censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC," Musk posted to X successful January 2023. That was much than a twelvemonth earlier Musk endorsed Trump successful nan 2024 statesmanlike title and became a fixture of nan management successful his impermanent domiciled pinch nan Department of Government Efficiency. 

"They are a threat to our democracy," Musk added.

RUBIO ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF STATE DEPARTMENT EFFORT THAT 'WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD ALREADY'

Former President Barack Obama established nan Global Engagement Center successful 2016 done an executive bid aimed astatine coordinating counterterrorism messaging to overseas nations earlier it expanded its scope to besides see countering overseas propaganda and disinformation, State Department documents show.

Conservatives person slammed nan agency arsenic a governmental limb to soundlessness free speech, including Rubio successful an April op-ed erstwhile he cited a 2020 GEC study claiming that a "Russian disinformation apparatus" was down nationalist speculation that nan coronavirus was an "engineered bioweapon" aliases was created by "research conducted astatine nan Wuhan institute." 

Marco Rubio said during nan April 30 Cabinet gathering that a little-known, now-defunct agency wrong nan State Department called nan Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers connected Americans crossed nan state arsenic portion of an effort to "censor" free speech. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency)

In nan years pursuing nan pandemic, nan Department of Energy nether nan Biden management and erstwhile FBI Director Christopher Wray said grounds indicated that COVID-19 was nan consequence of a laboratory leak, while nan Trump administration's CIA reported earlier successful 2025 that a laboratory leak was nan likely root of nan virus.

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In 2024, lawmakers did not o.k. caller backing for nan agency successful nan National Defense Authorization Act, and it was scheduled to terminate connected Dec. 23, 2024. The Biden administration, however, shuffled staffers and rebranded nan office. 

It became nan Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub conscionable days earlier Trump's inauguration, nan New York Post reported successful January. 

Rubio announced successful April that nan agency would officially shutter. 

Marco Rubio has railed against nan agency successful erstwhile interviews and op-eds, including authoring an sentiment portion for nan Federalist successful April touting that he was dismantling nan "censorship-industrial complex" that had gripped agencies specified arsenic nan State Department. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"I americium announcing nan closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI), formerly known arsenic nan Global Engagement Center (GEC)," Rubio said successful an April 16 connection announcing nan office's closure. 

"Under nan erstwhile administration, this office, which costs taxpayers much than $50 cardinal per year, spent millions of dollars to actively soundlessness and censor nan voices of Americans they were expected to beryllium serving," he wrote. "This is antithetical to nan very principles we should beryllium upholding and inconceivable it was taking spot successful America. That ends today." 

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Though Marco Rubio did not place which Trump charismatic nan Biden management kept a dossier on, Elon Musk has antecedently railed against nan Global Engagement Center. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)

Rubio has railed against nan agency successful erstwhile interviews and op-eds, including authoring an sentiment portion for nan Federalist successful April touting that he was dismantling nan "censorship-industrial complex" that had gripped agencies specified arsenic nan State Department. 

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"Over nan past half-decade, bodies for illustration GEC, crafted by our ain governing ruling class, astir destroyed America’s agelong free reside history," he wrote successful nan op-ed. "The enemies of reside had caller lingo to warrant their authoritarian impulse. It was "disinformation," allegedly pushed by nefarious overseas governments, that was nan No. 1 threat to ‘our democracy.’ To protect 'our democracy,' this ‘disinformation’ had to beryllium identified and stamped out."