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Conflict between Argentine journalist and minister over private flight

Journalist Marcelo Grandio publicly accused Cabinet Chief Manuel Adorni of funding a private flight to Uruguay with public money. In response, Adorni called it a "gaffe" and claimed the video was fabricated from within.


Conflict between Argentine journalist and minister over private flight

A heated argument took place, and it was not on good terms. This led the communicator to take a step a few days later: still irritated by his friend's reaction, he decided to speak publicly about the incident and emphasize that the flight was paid for with public money. He made this clear. "He paid for it with state money, he paid me and I have the receipt, I paid the company myself," he commented in a journalistic interview. In turn, he promised to show the bills of his expenses in the Uruguayan resort city, "if required". Not only that: he was also involved in the planning of a cycle of interviews conducted by the national official before his arrival in the libertarian cabinet. At this time, it has been revealed that the state channel could terminate the contracts signed by the person whom Adorni described as a friend and who, according to the ruling party member, made a "gaffe" when he had to speak about the controversial trip to the Uruguayan city. The Head of Cabinet, regarding the images, is convinced that the video was generated from "within". "The video came from the inside out, they were on that side of the airport glass," he said. On top of that, it became known that Grandio, with his production company Imhouse, put together two programs that the Public TV broadcasts. Although shortly before he had said that Adorni "paid with his own money, not with state money". Those words became a new trigger to complicate the situation of the coordinating minister. There was a compelling reason that led the Public TV host to speak out against the former press secretary: he involved him gratuitously in a problem. According to what the Argentine News Agency learned, the journalist was upset by Adorni's initial reaction when it became known that he had shared a private flight with him to Punta del Este, Uruguay, last February. But he did not specify when or to whom he would do it. "Every time an error is made, we will sit down, explain it and apologize for the case, because we are not gods, we are human," highlighted the man of trust of the General Secretary of the Presidency, Karina Milei. He felt that "he did not defend him". Buenos Aires, March 16 (NA) – The journalist Marcelo Grandio's phrase against the Head of Cabinet, Manuel Adorni, was not random and was not a gaffe as the official said.

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