White House Account Insults Acyn Torabi Over $2.4 Million Fraud Photo Mix-Up
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Updated · The Daily Beast · Jul 9
White House Account Insults Acyn Torabi Over $2.4 Million Fraud Photo Mix-Up
3 articles · Updated · The Daily Beast · Jul 9
Summary
White House Rapid Response 47 called Acyn Torabi a “dumb a--,” wrongly accusing him of shielding a woman convicted of stealing $2.4 million in taxpayer-funded benefits.
The post followed JD Vance’s Milwaukee speech, where he pointed to a placard about healthcare fraud but venue lighting and the board’s placement left the woman’s image obscured on camera.
Torabi’s six-second X clip highlighted that mismatch, and MeidasTouch quickly argued the White House had effectively insulted Vance for an error created onstage, not in editing.
The episode undercut an account created to fight what the administration calls fake news, turning a message about benefit-fraud enforcement into a communications blunder.