Trump Thinking About Putting USAID Under The State Department

[Rightguide]

Both USAID And The CIA Were Behind The Impeachment Of Trump in 2019​

A US government-controlled group did the research that linked Rudy Giuliani to former Ukrainian prosecutors


Michael Shellenberger
and
Alex Gutentag
Feb 05, 2025

The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.

Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times.

The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were “key hidden actors behind a plan” by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats’ impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times.

In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP’s dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP’s “annual work plan” and approves new hires of “key personnel.” NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States.

https://www.public.news/p/both-usaid-and-the-cia-were-behind

USAID was the cash cow of the Deep State,

 

[Lance_Castro]

USAID paid Ben Stiller 8 Million to bug Melania’s panties during the filming of Zoolander to get intel on Donald.

But he never got close enough to be recorded.

Lol

 

[HisArpy]

Just wait, it won't be long before the denials and lies about how untrustworthy the reporting source is.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Just wait, it won't be long before the denials and lies about how untrustworthy the reporting source is.

Deep State!

Run away!

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ll74]

This guy knows what he's talking about

Former USAID chief blasts Trump and Musk's gutting of agency - CBS News https://search.app/ViDX5MrFPmTGzEGG9

 

[DeluxAuto]

Nothing like billionaires gutting programs that don't affect them with no backup plans or even a concept of a plan.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[MajorRewrite]

“USAID” is the MAGAs’ new favorite buzzword. Right wing propagandists have told MAGAs that USAID is the enemy and is full of demons. Gullible MAGA sheep are very upset.

It’s easy to upset MAGA sheep.

 

[DeluxAuto]

“USAID” is the MAGAs’ new favorite buzzword. Right wing propagandists have told MAGAs that USAID is the enemy and is full of demons. Gullible MAGA sheep are very upset.

It’s easy to upset MAGA sheep.

Everything is a distraction away from the felon failing on every single campaign promise to the gullible dipshits.

 

[ll74]

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This has nothing to do with cutting excess waste. We will be seeing the impact of this stupid move for decades.

And all you fuckers will be talking about is how Politico was a deep state grifter. (Which they weren't ....just ask Rep Boebert who spent $2500 on a subscription with taxpayer money.)

 

[Rightguide]

This guy knows what he's talking about

Former USAID chief blasts Trump and Musk's gutting of agency - CBS News https://search.app/ViDX5MrFPmTGzEGG9

Of course he would, from atop the biggest criminal money laundering organization in history.

 

[Rightguide]

“USAID” is the MAGAs’ new favorite buzzword. Right wing propagandists have told MAGAs that USAID is the enemy and is full of demons. Gullible MAGA sheep are very upset.

It’s easy to upset MAGA sheep.

You're the only on that seems to be upset.

 

[Rightguide]

This has nothing to do with cutting excess waste. We will be seeing the impact of this stupid move for decades.

And all you fuckers will be talking about is how Politico was a deep state grifter. (Which they weren't ....just ask Rep Boebert who spent $2500 on a subscription with taxpayer money.)

AS was the NYTs.

 

[ll74]

AS was the NYTs.

Yes, I know that you believe that, which reinforces my point.

This won't work out the way you think it will. Nvm....you're too transactional to care.

 

[Rightguide]

Yes, I know that you believe that, which reinforces my point.

This won't work out the way you think it will. Nvm....you're too transactional to care.

They were receiving a subsidy from USAID, ostensibly to be a government news source.

 

[ll74]

They were receiving a subsidy from USAID, ostensibly to be a government news source.

There is much more to the ways the money is given as well as the reasoning for those who receive those grants.

But you are too transactional and don't spend enough time to understand the purposes. (Not to mention it hits the right biases for you)

Overall a political winner for the maga base that will fuck our country long term in ways that you don't have the imagination to realize.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

This has nothing to do with cutting excess waste. We will be seeing the impact of this stupid move for decades.

And all you fuckers will be talking about is how Politico was a deep state grifter. (Which they weren't ....just ask Rep Boebert who spent $2500 on a subscription with taxpayer money.)

Do tell us exactly how we’ll be seeing the “impact” of this? Saving $50mil (or whatever the number is…I’ve seen two, but both are too much) by not giving condoms to our enemies?

I attempted to use “The Google”, a contraption that seems to give you fits, this a.m. I put “What was USAID monies funding?” Want to guess how many entries it took to even get a half honest answer?

The NYT, NPR, MSN, blah blah blah, only wanted to wag their finger at me in their articles. Never once did they touch where that money goes. I wonder why.

So I ask you. Where is that money going?

 

[ll74]

Do tell us exactly how we’ll be seeing the “impact” of this? Saving $50mil (or whatever the number is…I’ve seen two, but both are too much) by not giving condoms to our enemies?

We don't give condoms to our enemies.

I attempted to use “The Google”, a contraption that seems to give you fits, this a.m. I put “What was USAID monies funding?” Want to guess how many entries it took to even get a half honest answer?

Google doesn't give you answers, it gives you results to searches.
That's probably your first issue. Information is not the same thing as knowledge

The NYT, NPR, MSN, blah blah blah, only wanted to wag their finger at me in their articles. Never once did they touch where that money goes. I wonder why.

It's because it's not something that can.be fully explained in a single article.

So I ask you. Where is that money going?

The answer is lots of places. Drug research,.disease prevention, diplomatic outreach, political research, infrastructure development, advance notification networks for disasters, coordination with foreign governments to contain major disruptions

I've heard it called the number three most.important agencies in the government.

But if someone tells you that money went to politico pro or ny times, that makes you mad.

I get it. Government is important. Even the part you may not understand and may not like

Burning it down doesn't make anything more efficient.

 

[Bray123]

USAID was investigating Musk's support of Russia in the Ukraine invasion, by switching off the Space X communication satellites when they might be used by the Ukrainian population to find out what was going on. Putin destroyed the internet links across the country, Musk only allowed Russia to have access.

This is why Musk and Trump have shut down the entire agency; simple Trumpian revenge lawfare.

 

[Rebel5soul]

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Now you know why ALL of the CIA employees were offered resignation buy outs. The next step will be involuntary unemployment.

 

[ChloeTzang]

USAID was investigating Musk's support of Russia in the Ukraine invasion, by switching off the Space X communication satellites when they might be used by the Ukrainian population to find out what was going on. Putin destroyed the internet links across the country, Musk only allowed Russia to have access.

This is why Musk and Trump have shut down the entire agency; simple Trumpian revenge lawfare.

Now THAT is a conspiracy theory and a half.

 

[ChloeTzang]

DOGE sends firing notice to 9,0000 USAID employees as Trump pledges to 'CLOSE DOWN' entire agency​

President Donald Trump will fire about 9,400 workers from USAID, deeming only 611 as essential employees and bringing about the near total elimination of the government agency. His administration originally planned to keep fewer than 300 staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development but that number has now risen, according a notice sent to the agency late Thursday night. Trump said he was closing down the entire agency.

When the original 300 number was floated, staff at the agency had pushed to keep more people on board, citing critical lifesaving humanitarian work. Senior staff submitted a list of around 600 people to State Department leadership, calling their work essential and saying it could not be disrupted. Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the list of employees who are staying. But about 800 awards and contracts administered through the agency are being canceled. USAID's Washington D.C. office has been closed.

Trump has said of it: 'It's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we're getting them out.'

Rubio was blunt: 'I'd have preferred not to do it this way,' he noted. 'When we tried to do it from the top down by getting cooperation from the central office and USAID, what we found instead are people trying to use the system to sneak through payments and push through payments despite the stop order. We found people that were uncooperative in terms of giving us information and access.'

Rubio emphasized that the Trump administration will still be issuing foreign assistance. 'The United States will be providing foreign aid,' he said. 'But it is going to be foreign aid that makes sense and is aligned with our national interest.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14372711/DOGE-trump-musk-usaid-fired-workers.html

 

[Rightguide]

There is much more to the ways the money is given as well as the reasoning for those who receive those grants.

But you are too transactional and don't spend enough time to understand the purposes. (Not to mention it hits the right biases for you)

Overall a political winner for the maga base that will fuck our country long term in ways that you don't have the imagination to realize.

Not at all. It will save the American taxpayer billions and redirect other funds to help the American people.