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the White House and they just did one of those
things where they, you know, sit in the chairs in
front of the fireplace, and they bring it all the
media and they throw a bunch of questions at people.
If you've just become politically aware during the Biden administration,
you probably have. You probably don't know what I'm talking about,
because Biden really didn't do any of these things. But
Trump actually answers questions of the media when they come
in to take the pictures. So yeah, so this just
happened apparently action to the.
Speaker 3: New Time magazine cover that has Elon Musk sitting behind
your resolute desk.
Speaker 1: So there's the translator for the Japanese Prime Minister.
Speaker 4: Is Time magazine still in business. I didn't even know
that Elon is doing a great job. He's finding tremendous
fraud and corruption and waste. You see it with the U.
Speaker 3: S A I D.
Speaker 4: But you're going to see it even more so with
other agencies and other parts of government. He's got a
staff that's fantastic. He's wanted to be able to do
this for a long time, and everybody else knew it
was existent, but I think never so much. When you
look at US A I D. That's a uh, that's fraud.
The whole thing is a fraud. Very little, very little
being put to good use.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: So that was Donald Trump standing by Elon Musk and
not taking the bait, which is what reporters and the Democrats,
but I repeat myself, we're hoping would create friction between
Trump and Musk, this idea that they're both big egos
and they'll eventually have a falling out by Trump has
had with all of those people from his previous administration.
And so if they can just drive this wedge between
them that oh, Elon's are actually the president, and then
that would you know, rattle Trump and he would fire Musk.
Speaker 1: And it's not working.
Speaker 2: And I suspect it's not working because the people that
gathered around Trump for Trump Version two point zero, like
they're all on board with the same mission, and they
they are on board because of him, so like they
are empowered to do these things because it aligns with
what he wants. This from John or sorry from Stephen
Richards over at justthnews dot com, which is the outlet
that was created by John Solomon who was an award
winning top notch journalist until he started noticing the corruption
surrounding the resistance and the way the government was being weaponized,
and then all of a sudden he was like, oh,
he's just a right winger, so he went off and
started his own publication called just thenews dot com. Stephen
Richards has the story that before Trump began the purge
at USAID, there was a memo that warned that agency
that it had created quote vulnerabilities in the way that
it was doling out the foreign aid. Just days before
Elon Musk began a purge at USAID, the Agency for
International Development, the foreign agency was warned in a stinging
memo from its own internal watchdog and it had created
serious vulnerabilities by doling out billions of dollars tax dollars
to overseas countries and groups without fully vetting for terrorists
and fraudsters or demanding transparency from recipients of America's largesse.
The memo, which was published by the Inspector General of
the US Agency for International Development in late January, details
some long standing concerns about house safeguards against misuse of
funds and the proper authorities to hold and the proper
authorities to hold violators accountable are missing from the Office
of Inspector General's toolbox. So what does that mean. It
means they can't track the money and they don't know
where it's going, and they're not vetting these sub awardees
is what they call them. So when they award a grant,
they award some NGO something, and then the NGO passes
the money on to somebody else. They can't they can't
keep track of that, they can't stop it, and maybe
they find out later on, oh, actually it went to
feed hamas fighters, you know, stuff like that. Fred Flights,
a former Trump National Security Council official, told Just the
News that a key concern of the administration now is
ensuring that the money is being spent wisely and on
causes benefiting US interests. There is a look, I understand,
there is a philosophy, There is an outlook or an
argument to be made that we shouldn't be doing any foreign.
Speaker 1: Aid at all. I have heard the argument. I understand
the points.
Speaker 2: But as I said the other day, the bang for
the buck is much higher if you know, unless you're
saying that like we're just going to be isolationists and
we are not going to take any interest in helping
anybody else outside of our borders, and then you know
we'll be fine if you know, we don't need any friends.
That's essentially what you're saying is I am a rock,
I am an island. I don't need any friends.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: That's I think part of that argument, because if you
just give people aid and support, right, much like the
in marketing or PR, it's called the halo effect. You
get a halo effect when you do things that are
good for other people, and then people associate you with
being good. And so that's the idea behind helping people
is we are a good people, we are a good country,
and so we will help you when you need help,
and when you start infecting that aid and assistance with
political ideology or with covert CIA operations underneath them, Like,
when you start doing that, you are working across purposes
to what the intention is, which is to help people.
But if you're just using that in order to further
your own goals, and particularly goals that are not great
for the people you're helping, that's wrong and people will
eventually sniff that out and then they're not going to
have a positive view. You have no halo effects. So
what's the point. Well, democrats realize the point is enriching themselves.
They give themselves the jobs inside these NGOs and they
survive off of those grants doing the quote work right.
And I mentioned this yesterday, the Mott and Bailey argument
that we are seeing right now that oh my gosh,
you can't cut the Peruvian transcomic books because then starving
people won't get their rice, and that's how they cover
for the corruption. But people see it. It's all out
in the open USAID this according to Fred Flights. He
says USAID is incredibly politicized for leftist political goals by
the Democrats. It's become a politicized boondoggle, and we saw
that over the last forty eight to seventy two hours.
We know that USAID officials were trying to subvert Trump's
effort more on that I won't get to or his
order to freeze foreign aid for ninety days. That's what
Marco Rubio talked about. When they tried to do it
from the top down, and you had these USAID staffers
and they just kept pushing money out. They were ignoring it,
and they're like whoa, whoa, ooh. We said stop and
they're like, no, we're not stopping flight, says so we
can see what our tax dollars are being paid for.
We wanted to freeze and is it in the interest
of the United States? So I would submit that the
halo effect is in fact in the interest of the
United States.
Speaker 1: Is it America first? Or is it not?
Speaker 2: Inspector the Inspector General Paul Martin is his name, identified
three main areas of vulnerability resistance from UN agencies and
foreign based energy. To share the information with the OIG.
The Office of Inspector General limitations on the vetting of
these aid organizations for ties to designated terrorist organizations and
known corrupt actors. And the third area was limitations in
obtaining data about USAID funded subawardes. So, in other words,
the end user of the largess who gets it after
you've passed it through an NGO or two or twenty.
Where does the money or the aid eventually land? And
when you can't see that, then you don't know if
you're actually doing good work. You could be actually doing
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Speaker 1: Let's talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: Hey Pete, Hey, what's going on? Yeah? Irs, you know
I started thinking about all this unless you you saved
money going everywhere in the world, and you know there's
got to be intermediaries. Pete, I'm talking to Americans now,
and large American companies involved with disseminating a lot of
this money. And I got to think when the irs
out there these this money flowing around, you know, just
how involved and excited do they get trying to follow
up on it? Reporting not And so you know, it
raises a big flag right there. And then I got
to think about this Office of Management buzz budget and
I think you just mentioned the Spectra General's Office. You
know those organizations order to be staffed and appointed by
the American people through a commissions whatever. I don't mind
it being partisan as long as it's always like this,
a six member board, three rs and three d's. But
we need to get the oversight of this monster behooma.
There's never been anything like it in the history of
mankind from a scope in size. There needs to be
independent outside oversight of this money and these entities up
there in DC as to what they're doing.
Speaker 2: So I think that's well, Jim, I think that's what
we are seeing right now. The oversight is supposed to
be done by Congress, and Congress has refused, along with
very virtually all other aspects of their responsibilities, they have
refused to do their jobs. And so that's what I
think Elon Musk is doing with his doge dudes. They're
coming in there and they're stripping all this stuff away.
I heard there was a report I heard that basically
this kind of an operation would not even have been
possible like two years ago. The technology with AI is
now at such a point where they can run this
kind kind of massive data collection and tracking operation because
of the current technology, and so like this is like
this I think this is a like a fork in
the road, like for like a historical at a societal level,
I think that whatever we can do to put tech
in the middle here to be tracking this stuff and
posting this stuff. And by the way, this is what
this is what this was a bipartisan thing like fifteen
years ago. The whole point was to make all of
these expenditures public so everybody could see it and that
would help act as a watchdog.
Speaker 3: Well to to other quick points, these big co American corps,
you know, they get so called quote unquote independent audits
heavy here from the so called biggest accounting firms in
the world. And there are accounting principles right now in
existence about interoperability, status of arms, late transactions, all kinds
of so called footnotes to financial statements where you list
those things. I have to think, Pete, that these big
accounting firms have just been weink weak and turning their
heads when they see these billions of dollars head and
overseas courtesy of the books of some of the biggest
corps in America. I just have to think that's happening.
And I'll make one more I'll make one more point.
P that we've got to get the offices a lot
of these agencies out of d C. I mean out
of DC. We need to get them in somewhere in
the middle of Kansas somewhere or why. I mean, they
don't need to be in DC anymore.
Speaker 2: Right, I agree with that. Yeah, I agree with that too, Jim.
I appreciate the call on the auditing firms. I have
no confidence in audits and auditing firms.
Speaker 1: Zero confidence.
Speaker 2: And I was I remember covering these stories like when
you know, the city of Charlotte when I was a
beat reporter, and I would you know, they'd come in
like we have a clean audit everybody we had the
auditing firm, and the auditing firm would be up there
and they would be talking about, you guys have great
books all this stuff. And I always thought, oh, okay,
well that's good. Right, here's some experts outside eyes looking
at the books. Everything's hunky dory. And then I went
to Asheville, where I remember years ago somebody told me
they bury their politician's feet first because she got to
screw them into the ground.
Speaker 1: They're so crooked.
Speaker 2: And the county manager, Wanda Green at the time, was
embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of
dollars out of the county coffers in Bunkham County and
had conspirators inside county government. And she was convicted. By
the way, she went to federal prison, but it was
during COVID, so they basically let her right back out.
They passed their audits every single year, and that's why
I don't have confidence in these audits at all. Unless
it's like a forensic audit, I don't have confidence all right.
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takeaway here is that the Office of Inspector General inside
the agency, inside USAID told them, you guys do not
have safeguards for your funding, so we can track where
all of this is going.
Speaker 1: There's a guy named Mike Bens. You probably have seen him.
Speaker 2: He has now become a very hot commodity on the
interview circuit because he is a former State Department official
and now the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online.
And he has been ringing the alarm on USAID for
years and now he's an overnight sensation. That's usually how
that goes. He has chronicled how USAID spent fun encouraging
censorship around the globe. He said the agency's record of
funding controversial or freedom damaging projects had eroded its trust
across the globe. He says, USAID has systematically corrupted the
American and world trust in the institutions that keep society going.
See this is not a right wing position. This is
a position that if anything would be held by the
people at USAID, the people that are funding it, the
very people that are out there now marching on every
single federal building they can spot, you would think they
would be the most outraged at the waste of the
money that's not going to the purpose that it's originally
intended and instead is undermining America, unless, of course, that's
the point. The Inspector General's report that was released in
January said a quarter of USAID's programming, around eight billion dollars,
goose through what are called public international organizations, which include
un agencies and development banks, and because these programs often
occur in emergency environments, the OIG relies on those organizations
to self report any potential fraudulent activities. But despite the
fact that they have contractual obligations to report potential fraud
or mismanagement, those un agencies delay notifications. If they give
any notification at all. For example, the World Food Program
reported five hundred nineteen instances of potential misconduct to USAID,
but the Inspector General was only told about twenty nine
of them. But there's a contractual obligation to promptly notify
the OIG, but they did not. Additionally, the Inspector General
said that the AGENC did not have the mechanisms needed
to ensure that any individuals accused of corruption or misconduct
would not be recirculated to other UN agencies that are
being funded by USAID. Which makes sense, right, Like somebody
is a corrupt actor, you find out they're corrupt, so
you cut off their funding directly. But oh no, they
just bounce over to another NGO and get a grant
through that NGO and they just keep recirculating through that network.
Among those who have benefited from USAID funding, Hayatahir al
Sham or HTS does that acronym ring a bell? Does
the name ring a bell? They're the ones that are
now in charge in Syria. I'm sure it's just a
coincidence their former Al Qaeda. In twenty twenty three, there
was a scheme to divert USAID sponsored food aid in Ethiopia.
The Inspector General also found USA does not maintain a
comprehensive internal database of all of the sub awardees, meaning
the US can't identify them, or vet them, or track
the organizations that ultimately get the US funding after it
goes through the international organizations. They say this delays OIG
investigative activity and our ability to check with trusted foreign
law enforcement partners to see if fraud allegations are finding
against a local entity involve USAID funds. Now, in recent days,
the Trump administration US has identified USAID programs ranging from
contraceptives for Afghanistan to LGBTAD diversity programs for European countries
like why are we doing that in European countries? Just
thenews dot com has previously reported how USAID was intimately
involved with the censorship industry that emerged during the COVID
nineteen pandemic. I believe us AID money went to a
group called the was a Hamilton sixty eight? Remember them
so before it was shuttered? Oh wait yeah, yeah, before
it was shuttered. This is also just the news USAID
routed funds to Souros aligned causes, terrorists and drag queens.
The agency came under scrutiny over failures to ensure transparency
and its funding across the globe, and was not responding
to explicit policy directives from the State Department and the
wider executive branch to align its programs with Trump policies
and the US national interest. Right, And so what we are.
Speaker 1: Seeing now like shrieking vampires recoiling in the sunlight. Well,
actually it's exactly like that, right. They've been sucking.
Speaker 2: Dry the lifeblood of our economy, which is money people.
You could say, yes, the people, but like they're they're
sucking it dry, and they are now exposed and they're
running around shrieking because it's existential to them. They they're
losing their access to the gravy train. And so just
thenews dot com tracks all of these funds that have
been run through the Soros Open Society Foundation or is
funding programs and NGOs that the Soros Open Society Foundations
also fund. It's a very lengthy list. Albanian judicial reform
proposal that was run in twenty seventeen. Rex Tillerson identified this.
At the time, there was an operation in neighboring Macedonia.
Soros backed program there. Soros backed organizations that received funding
and USAID funding include the Anti Corruption Action Center in Ukraine,
part of the overthrow of Victor Yanuk who was a
little too Russia friendly.
Speaker 1: That's what I said the other day.
Speaker 2: USAID has been operating in conjunction with, if not under
control by like CIA Color Revolution operations, helping to destabilize
other countries. And I don't think that's what USAID was
supposed to be about. And if you listen to the
defenders that are shrieking in the sunlight, they're all talking
about food to Africa. But that's not what you were doing.
You were doing other things with it, and that's the problem.
Well that's one of the problems. So again that's at
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in Trump's impeachment. Man the layers of the Onion Never
end Matt Vespa at town hall dot com, Like honestly,
like I could make probably every single show for the
next three months about the USAID scandal. USAID shut down
on Friday, absorbed into the State Department. Oh and by
the way, Luke Rosiack, he pointed this out. Rosiack is
now with Daily Wire. Obama created the.
Speaker 2: USDs and it was this office specifically designed to hire
Silicon Valley types and to be exempt from hiring rules
and stuff. In twenty seventeen through twenty twenty. That staff
then undermined Trump from within the White House, and then
Biden put it under the control of political appointee Matt Cutts.
He him pronouns. And now Trump comes in and he
has renamed it to DOGE. And so this is the
Democrat's own creation. They did this, Okay, they did this
to themselves, which makes it all the more rich. Under
the president's direction, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE
unearthed a web of corruption, waste, and fraud that wasn't
necessarily shocking but jarring. Nonetheless, not just all the crazy
grants that we have seen, but they seem to have
subsidized and played a significant role in the twenty nineteen
impeachment of Donald Trump over the perfect phone call with Zelensky, who,
by the way, now says he may be willing to
trade some rare earth minerals access for support in their
war effort, which.
Speaker 1: Well, that's nice. Why didn't you offer that before?
Speaker 2: The agency appears to have been pulling the strings of
the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project or the oc CRP,
or the AKRP as I like to call it, which
was cited multiple times by the CIA whistleblower, which sparked
the quid pro quo circus surrounding Trump, Ukraine and military AID.
So the oc CRP, the AKERP. Independent journalists Michael Schellenberger
and Alex Guttentag did a deep dive into this sordid
government web where the purpose of AKERP was in your
usual investigative journalism. USAID seems to have had massive sway
regarding agenda, hiring practices, and mission. The story on Schellenberger's site,
called Public ruffled the AKERP feathers, which then threatened Schellenberger
and the company with a lawsuit claiming their premise was
false and defamatory. So now they're trying to create set
drop site News, an outlet that was as led by
former intercept reporters. That was Glenn Greenwald's operation did well
to piece together the CD relationship. They too, now have
been slapped with threats of a lawsuit. USAID was the
perfect vehicle for the deep state and other anti Trump
staffers at government agencies to farm it out to In
the complaint, the whistleblower at the time claimed to have
heard from White House staff that Trump had a phone
call directed Ukrainian President Zelenski to work with his personal
attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate the bidens The whistleblower who
triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first
brought into the White House by the Obama administration. Is
this that Chirelma Cherealma Cimarella guy Anyway. Reporting by drop
site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied
on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called
the aker P, which appears to have effectively operated as
an arm of USAID, which Trump has just shut down.
The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a very lengthy report by
AKERP four times. Last year, there was a documentary that
a German television broadcaster called NDR made about akerp's dependence
on the US government, and AAID official confirmed in that
documentary that USAID approves akerp's annual work plan and approves
new hires of key personnel. But the documentary was censored
before broadcast after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co founder
and the head of AKERP, put pressure on the broadcaster
NDR management, and made false accusations against the broadcasters' journalists
involved in the project. On December sixteenth, just a couple
months ago, Drop Sites Ryan Grimm posted a link on
Twitter to the twenty six minute long documentary quote NDR,
Germany's public broadcaster is facing a censorship scandal and has
defended itself by saying it never killed a news report
about AKERP and its State Department funding because no report
was ever produced to kill and that's absurd. Here it is,
this is the documentary. Dozens, maybe hundreds of journalists knew
that was false, and now, of course somebody has leaked
the documentary. AKERB does not operate like a normal investigative
journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering
in foreign political matters, including elections. Aimed at regime change. Sullivan,
the guy who heads up AKERB. Yeah, Sullivan told the
NDR in that documentary that his organization had probably been
responsible for five or six countries changing over from one
government to another government and getting prime ministers indicted or
thrown out. As such, it appears that CIA, Usaid, and
Aker were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump
in ways similar to the regime change operations that all
three organizations engage in abroad. See this is why I
keep saying that they are part of and help color
revolutions as they're called. You work from the inside through
the institutions that exist.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: You get together coalitions and you overthrow the government, and
you make it appear as if this is some thing
that the people are clamoring for. You bring down governments
in a hopefully mostly peaceful way. The difference is that
it is highly illegal to do that to your own government.
It's even treasonous. Now, how many of these people knew it,
How many of these people were involved in that?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: I read that transcript of the Zelensky phone call with Trump,
and I didn't find anything in there to be impeachment worthy.
And by the way, Trump was apparently correct in asking
Zelensky to say, Hey, like, what exactly is going on
with all this?
Speaker 1: Can you can you.
Speaker 2: Guys get to the bottom of what the Biden relationship
is with Beisma and all that stuff going on. USAID
kept the Democrat media complex subsidized in the tens of millions,
via Politico Associated Press, New York Times and Reuter's being
some of the outlets who got that government sugar daddy cash.
Speaker 1: It was only for subscriptions.
Speaker 2: These outlets are exactly the ones that you would need, though,
to push a narrative, and that's what they did. He
concludes a lass where at the nexus point where a CI,
a whistle blower who set the beat of the impeachment drums,
cited a report from Aker, which has deep ties to USAID,
which allegedly controls most editorial and managerial aspects of that organization,
which produced content that was weaponized against our duly elected
president in twenty nineteen. All right, that'll do it for
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