Well, well, well—looks like the swamp just lost one of its most useful slush funds. USAID, the long-time darling of the D.C. elite and globalist establishment, is officially dead. What’s left of it has been absorbed into the State Department, with its overseas operations gutted and most of its bureaucrats sent packing. And naturally, the Left is in full meltdown mode, mourning the loss of their international piggy bank under the guise of “humanitarian aid.” Because nothing says “helping the world” quite like funneling millions of taxpayer dollars into corrupt foreign governments, shady NGOs, and conveniently well-connected media organizations.
Of course, the real reason for the panic isn’t about aid work. It’s about power, influence, and—most importantly—cash. USAID was a primary vehicle for politicians to push favors and fund pet projects, all under the warm and fuzzy cover of “development.” In reality, it was a giant money-laundering machine that benefited the political class, ensuring taxpayer dollars kept flowing into the right pockets. But that all came to a screeching halt thanks to President Trump and the Department of Government Ethics (DOGE), who ripped the mask off and exposed just how rotten this operation really was.
And let’s not forget USAID’s starring role in the anti-Trump deep-state theatrics. Turns out, this agency wasn’t just about foreign aid—it was also deeply embedded in pushing the Russian collusion hoax and helping set up Trump’s first impeachment. USAID had its fingerprints all over the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), an “independent” investigative outfit that turned out to be anything but. The agency funded OCCRP, approved its staffing, and coordinated its action plans—yet we’re supposed to believe this organization was just doing honest journalism? Please.
OCCRP was instrumental in pushing the Russia-Trump money laundering conspiracy, feeding stories into the media pipeline that conveniently aligned with the Democrats’ narrative. The infamous Alfa Bank hoax? OCCRP reports were in the mix. The Steele dossier? OCCRP-linked information found its way into the DOJ. The so-called Russian Laundromat? That was an OCCRP project, carefully designed to create an international echo chamber of speculation and innuendo, all of which the media eagerly ran with.
And here’s where it gets really convenient: OCCRP and other USAID-funded groups somehow always managed to find “evidence” of Trump’s shady dealings, but when it came to Hunter Biden and the blatant corruption of the Biden family, suddenly there was nothing to see. The same organizations that spent years trying to fabricate Trump-Russia ties had no interest in investigating how Hunter raked in millions from foreign entities while selling access to his father. Funny how that works.
USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over…
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 8, 2025
But USAID’s reach went far beyond smearing Trump. This agency, along with the State Department, was at the center of a massive global propaganda operation, using taxpayer money to manipulate media coverage, silence dissent, and control the narrative. They funneled nearly half a billion dollars to Internews, an international media training outfit that conveniently pushes the same left-wing talking points as the rest of the corporate press. Internews was active in 30 countries, training thousands of journalists and helping establish nearly 4,300 media outlets worldwide. In other words, the U.S. government wasn’t just influencing the news—it was creating it.
And in case you thought this was all just a happy accident, Internews’ CEO, Jeanne Bourgault, was front and center at the World Economic Forum, pushing for “exclusion lists” to silence disfavored viewpoints. That same WEF later declared “misinformation” (translation: anything they don’t like) the number one global threat. So, let’s get this straight: a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization worked to train and control journalists, promote a specific political agenda, and advocate for censorship on a global scale. Sounds an awful lot like state-run media, doesn’t it?
USAID funded an organization that fabricated evidence which was used to impeach President Trump.
The Deep State frequently funds regime change efforts abroad, but when it uses taxpayer money to undermine our own government, isn’t that treason? pic.twitter.com/7ow55Z5sqY
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 13, 2025
This is the reality of what USAID was really about—not helping the poor, not promoting democracy, but ensuring that the right people held power and the right narratives dominated the conversation. And that’s why its demise has sent shockwaves through the establishment. The slush fund is gone, the influence machine is broken, and the D.C. elite are in a blind panic.
But the work isn’t done. USAID was just one arm of the deep state’s global network, and there’s still plenty left to uncover. The Internews racket alone—a half-billion-dollar state media project disguised as journalism—needs far more scrutiny. But one thing is clear: the swamp just lost a major asset, and no amount of media spin can change the fact that their racket has been exposed.
