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The corporate media is taking flak for setting off a panic on social media after an unofficial CBS News television pool falsely reported ambulances accompanied by United States Secret Service (USSS) leaving President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. In reality, the emergency vehicles and USSS presence were part of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s motorcade.
“The press has set up a fake, unofficial “pool” because they want to feel important about themselves,” Steven Cheung, the incoming Trump White House Communications Director, wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He continued: “In this case, some idiot at CBS overreacted and set off the fire alarm for no reason thinking they were going to get the…