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  Barron Trump    Commentary @BarronTnews · 17h MIND-BLOWING EXPOSURE Senator John Kennedy just laid it all out on what Elon Musk uncovered about USAID – and it’s staggering: •$40 BILLION a year given away by USAID’s 10,000 employees •American taxpayer money flowing to Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria •Millions for electric vehicles in Vietnam •Funding a transgender clinic in India •$1.5 million for an LGBTQ group in Serbia to push DEI in workplaces •$164 million for radical organizations worldwide – $122 million of it to groups tied to terrorists •Money funneled into Hamas-controlled groups in Gaza •$2 million for sex changes in Guatemala •$20 million to make a Sesame Street show in Iraq •$4.5 million to fight “misinformation” in Kazakhstan •$10 million of meals sent to al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front •$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists to erase gendered language •$1.5 million for LGBT advocacy in Jamaica •$1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem •$1.5 million fo...

 Trending Politics: Roderick Watson, a former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employee who worked under the Biden administration, and three businessmen have pleaded guilty to participating in a $550 million bribery scheme involving the embattled agency. Watson, a Maryland native, is alleged to have received bribes valued north of $1 million in exchange for using his position as a trusted overseer of taxpayer money to direct 14 prime federal contracts to two consulting companies, Apprio and Vistant, which were contracted with USAID. Watson, 57, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official and faces up to 15 years in federal prison. He is currently scheduled to be sentenced this upcoming October. As part of the wide-reaching scheme, Vistant owner Walter Barnes and Darryl Britt, owner of Apprio, used Paul Young, the president of a subcontractor used by both Vistant and Apprio, as a middleman in order to facilitate some of the bribes that went to Watson, the Justice...

 Headline USA: Founder of Ukraine-Linked USAID Contractor Busted for Massive Bribery Scheme Barnes paid “various bribes” to receive the USAID contracts, including cash, iPhones, laptops, tickets to an NBA game, as well as benefits such as jobs for relatives... ... It’s unclear whether any of the Ukraine contracts were linked to the bribery scheme. ... See also:  Towson consultant, USAID official plead guilty in bribery scheme involving $550M in contracts It is hard to imagine how such a big scam could go unnoticed for so long.  The lack of internal controls on the spending is remarkable.  In my experience working for the State of Texas in the past, there were several ways to control this kind of spending.

 Red State: After Secretary of State Marco Rubio took to X on Monday to declare that 83 percent of the USAID programs would be cancelled and contracts rescinded, a curious memo from a USAID senior staffer obtained by Politico, instructed remaining staffers to convene at the former agency on Tuesday for destruction of “classified safes and personnel documents." Rubio  said :  After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.  The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.  In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.    Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform. And now,  accor...

  Post Reply See new posts Conversation Marco Rubio @marcorubio · 4h After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In Show more 3.7K 10K 55K 1.6M Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1 EXPOSED: The ACT BLUE - USAID Money Laundering Scheme You’re Not Supposed to Know About! USAID sends money to shady foreign countries. Foreign countries send money as a donation on a gift card to ActBlue. Act Blue gives it to Democrats to get elected. A MASSIVE SCAM. Foreign cash flows in, gets a nice little rinse, and voila—it’s laundered right back to them. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok · 11h Anti-Elon protester admits he gets paid to protest outside a Tesla location. Groups linked to Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue, which is funded by Soros, are paying people to protest against...