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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
"Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by President-elect Donald Trump's team, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter."
That those charged with national security are culled for lack of loyalty should be very concerning - even to those who voted for this person.
He's an asshole, I get it. But half of what is said about him is false (pee pee tapes?) that Americans don't give a darn about what is true.
The reasonable reaction to a dubious unsupported claim is immediate out-of-hand dismissal. In asking for a citation, they are giving you the benefit of the doubt; i.e. doing you a favor.
He's one of the most public figures in the world right now, with hours of video "evidence" widely and easily available. Asking someone to prove he did an obvious thing in public is demanding unpaid labor.
This is not the same as expecting someone to back up a claim of a homeopathic treatment for brain cancer.
Then you should easily be able to link to one. Hand-wavy accusations are irrefutable, and it is therefore irresponsible to make them. Once a specific case can be examined, it can be properly debunked and/or debated. But a vague accusation with the source of “everybody knows it” is worthless. Or in other words: Links or it didn’t happen.