Posted on 04/26/2025 5:00:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger says that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the CIA and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) helped orchestrate President Trump’s 2019 impeachment.
In an interview on Fox News, Shellenberger recounted how the impeachment case was brought about based on the word of a CIA analyst, left over from the Obama administration, who claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in a phone call, to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.
Shellenberger said that a memo written by that analyst, which served as the basis for Trump’s impeachment, relied heavily on a report done by the OCCRP organization, was funded by USAID using taxpayer dollars.
According to Shellenberger, the OCCRP, which was created as an extension of the State Department and USAID, received tens of millions of dollars in funding which were used to attempt regime change abroad and here at home.
Shellenberger described the OCCRP’s efforts, saying, “It was a kind of public facing part you know, regime change operation like CIA, but not covert, more overt — They were doing this sort of thing abroad, creating a predicate essentially for Trump’s impeachment.”
OCCRP has claimed to have journalistic independence, yet does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that it’s goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change according to Shellenberger.
If Shellenberger is connecting the dots correctly, it would help to explain why the Democrats are so desperate to protect USAID from further fiscal scrutiny and accountability at the hands of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team members.
If a major organ of the U.S. government was using taxpayer money to try to make the case that a sitting president should be impeached, that would be highly illegal and possibly treasonous.
“Was the Pope a Communist?” Well, he certainly was a Jesuit. Think I’m crazy? Check out Georgetown U.
I agree. Jail is too little for what they did to the Republic.
On 9-11, the shield of the U.S. collapsed. It’s been downhill from there. I say that no one goes to jail because in my lifetime, no one has ever gone to jail. There was that couple who smuggled out nuclear secrets in the 1950’s and were put to death. Other than that no. So excuse me if I’m realistic. God can do whatever He wants.
G. Gordon Liddy went to prison.
The exception which re-enforces your point.
Becoming the same as our enemies is not winning.
Plenty of people very recently have not only done things worthy of prison, if it were the 1950’s their fate would be much worse. George Soros and his son wake up every day plotting how to weaken us, and they roam free, occasionally stopping to pick up an award.
In all the blathering about that phone call, I have never learned why it would have been illegal for Trump to suggest that Zelensky investigate Joe and Hunter’s activities re Ukraine. Can anyone help me out?
In a just world the culprits would be held accountable, but much has been Dione by simply pulling the plug on USAID and ending the funding of such activities is still positive. Now if DOJ can end the money laundering at Act Blue, the Democrats will be hard pressed to funnel either taxpayer dollars or foreign influence money into their schemes.
Unfortunately, the Dems know the ActBlue game is up, and have had plenty of time to destroy evidence and look to their future “needs”. I’m all for crushing the ActBlue operation, but DoJ also needs to find and derail the NEXT generation of Democrat money-laundering/election subversion.
Yup, "Three Days of the Condor" was the user manual not a fictional spy novel/movie.
Great movie. I’ve never watched the whole movie from start to finish, just parts of it at different times. What a cast and edge of chair kind of film. On my list of rainy day ideas to watch from start to end.
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