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Senator Claims $50M in Condoms Needed to “Keep Malnourished Babies Alive in Gaza” And the media is lying about it
FPM ^ | 1.31.25 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/02/2025 6:28:26 PM PST by Words Matter

Sen. Chris Murphy (D – Tehran) doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo that the famine hoax has fallen apart and Hamas tossed it aside after the Biden – Witkoff deal allows it to claim victory. But after the Trump administration froze the gravy train of aid, including $50 million in condoms for Gaza, Sen. Murphy tweeted that “It’s a lie. Made up. There was no U.S. funding for condoms in Gaza. What he stopped is programs to keep malnourished babies alive in Gaza. Aid groups say infants will start to die next week.”

Everyone knows the perpetually malnourished infants in Gaza can’t live without condoms. That then get turned into bombs.

In fact the government’s own website shows $45 million being sent to the UNFPA to “SUPPORT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (SRH) CARE CLOSE TO THE DISPLACED POPULATIONS” under the State Department’s BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION. The UNFPA is the United Nations Population Fund which acts as the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. None of this has anything to do with ‘malnourished babies’. The media quickly went into ‘fact check’ mode.

Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true – CNN Trump Administration Makes Unsupported Claim About $50 Million for Condoms to Gaza – Fact Check

The ‘fact checking’ had the media play its usual game of declaring that the claim was ‘unsupported’, nitpicking at the details and diverting attention away to the International Medical Corps for Gaza (which is where Sen. Murphy got his starving babies nonsense) and direct shipments rather than the UNFPA. This is a game that the media’s fact-checking ops routinely play. It’s called playing dumb.

Biden’s former guy on the scene came closest to admitting the truth.

Andrew Miller, who served as deputy assistant secretary for Israeli-Palestinian affairs under former US president Joe Biden, calls the claim “outlandish.” “It’s possible that $50 million is put aside for sexual health or something of that nature, which would include gynecology and many other services, but definitely not condoms alone,” he tells The Times of Israel.

Multiple lefty sites (and CATO’s libertarian Reason spam factory) quoted Miller’s ‘outlandish’ claim, but not his follow-up admission. It appears to even be reasonably accurate in that the $50 million didn’t just cover condoms, but ‘sexual health programs’ aimed at various forms of birth control.

Selectively quoting Miller demonstrated the media’s calculated dishonesty.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 50millioncondoms; cato; chrismurphy; cnn; dtehran; factheckers; gaza; wapo
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1 posted on 02/02/2025 6:28:26 PM PST by Words Matter
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To: Words Matter

That’s $50 millon that needs to be clawed back....


2 posted on 02/02/2025 6:30:13 PM PST by lgjhn23 (Sšš)
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To: lgjhn23

maybe- i am in favor of anything that will stop these monsters from procreating; condoms, involuntary sterilization, whatever....


3 posted on 02/02/2025 6:31:52 PM PST by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: lgjhn23

Pronto.


4 posted on 02/02/2025 6:32:19 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Words Matter

....so babies in Gaza are eating condoms?


5 posted on 02/02/2025 6:32:26 PM PST by Tzimisce ( )
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To: God luvs America

Even castration (whether physical or chemical).


6 posted on 02/02/2025 6:32:46 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Words Matter

Ahhhh. It depends on what the meaning of “is” is. Is that it, Chris?


7 posted on 02/02/2025 6:33:22 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Words Matter

Why aren’t these undernourished Arab children living in Cairo?

They could have walked there by now.


8 posted on 02/02/2025 6:34:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: God luvs America

Your list is incomplete, JDAMS, 155mm howitzer shells, flame throwers, etc… should be included.


9 posted on 02/02/2025 6:35:49 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: God luvs America

shucks, napalm works better.


10 posted on 02/02/2025 6:36:54 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Words Matter

Welp, now we know who slipped that 50 mil into the spending bill. Thanks for outing yourself, Murph.


11 posted on 02/02/2025 6:37:01 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Words Matter

....
“or something of that nature”....


12 posted on 02/02/2025 6:38:22 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true

They're right.

Only $5k were spent on condoms.

The other $49,995,000 went to Democrat-aligned NGO grifters for the costs of sourcing and dispersing the condoms.

13 posted on 02/02/2025 6:39:00 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Words Matter

Reminds me of John F’n Kerry claiming we have to cut food production in half or people will starve.


14 posted on 02/02/2025 6:39:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Words Matter

We can offer Murphy the chance to deliver condoms bought with private funds in person…


15 posted on 02/02/2025 6:40:19 PM PST by BigEdLB (Adults are in charge )
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To: Drew68

Supposedly they can be used for bombs


16 posted on 02/02/2025 6:41:29 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Words Matter

Condoms needed to feed babies?

Does this guy know what condoms are used for? Maybe he doesn’t understand.


17 posted on 02/02/2025 6:46:42 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Words Matter

Gaza terrorists and their supporters babies are not our problem.


18 posted on 02/02/2025 6:52:44 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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Supposedly they can be used for bombs

Yup. $50 million for balloons that take bombs into Israel. Anyone who thinks they're being used as intended is inhaling too much helium.

19 posted on 02/02/2025 6:52:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Words Matter

Trump needs to fill a prison or two with crooked politicians.


20 posted on 02/02/2025 6:53:42 PM PST by SpaceBar
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