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Trump’s attack on the Deep State is spectacular and almost certainly legal
American Thinker ^ | 3 Feb, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 02/04/2025 5:24:43 AM PST by MtnClimber

In the last few days, Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the General Services Administration (GSA) tech division, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Treasury, and fired corrupt people in the FBI—and that’s just the short list. With the war on USAID, GSA, OPM, and the Treasury alone, DOGE is saving taxpayers at a rate of one billion per day. All of this has driven the Democrats into a frenzy as they insist that an elected president managing the government is a coup. Unfortunately for them (but not for us), they don’t have a legal leg to stand on.

President Kennedy founded USAID via Executive Order 10973 in November 1961: “Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related Functions.” It was meant to be a permanent clearing house that would work with the State Department to distribute money intended to help advance technology and financial competence in low-income countries. It reflected the fact that, in 1961, the U.S. was still the last country standing after WWII. The vision was to benefit America by fortifying poor countries against Soviet depredation.

USAID has strayed far from that mandate. The Daily Mail assembled a helpful list of examples of USAID’s hard-left blank check policy. This list includes:

- $30 million to study HIV in Africa among sex workers and so-called “transgender” people.

- $38 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other Chinese research labs.

- $1.5 million to an LGBTQ+ group in Serbia.

- $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam, with only one battery station built.

- Money for a “trans” care clinic in Vietnam.

- $25,000 for a “trans” opera in Colombia

- $32,000 for “trans” comic books in Peru.

- $500,000 to expand atheism in Nepal.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: doge; musk; takeoutthetrash; trump; trumpmas; winning
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1 posted on 02/04/2025 5:24:43 AM PST by MtnClimber
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Publius
@OcrazioCornPop

The Clinton Foundation raked in Millions from USAID.

In 2010, USAID managed $4.4 billion for Haiti under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Clinton Foundation was a significant player in those Haiti “efforts”.

Where did the money go?

@DOGE

@elonmusk


2 posted on 02/04/2025 5:25:23 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Clinton Foundation raked in Millions from USAID.

In 2010, USAID managed $4.4 billion for Haiti under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Clinton Foundation was a significant player in those Haiti "efforts".

Where did the money go?@DOGE @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/EU0fklFNHQ— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) February 3, 2025


3 posted on 02/04/2025 5:25:54 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

The Clinton Foundation raked in Millions from USAID.

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Say it isn’t soooo!

Biden gave Hillary a run for her money due to the egreegiousness of selling out our country for personal gain, but no one will ever come close to her in terms of long term corruption. 4 decades of it. An enormous laundry list of it. And while there were many many incidents, the clinton foundation was the master-grift.


4 posted on 02/04/2025 5:29:38 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: MtnClimber

USAID is a slush fund for corrupt Democrats and globalists. It spends hundreds of millions of dollars on things like paper coffee cups. This is all being exposed.


5 posted on 02/04/2025 5:32:03 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber

Trump’s team has been working 4 years to do everything by the law. They have a plan - trust the plan !


6 posted on 02/04/2025 5:33:00 AM PST by 11th_VA (More people died on Jan 29 than Jan 6)
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To: 11th_VA

Why would it ever be illegal to weed out waste, fraud and corruption?


7 posted on 02/04/2025 5:35:27 AM PST by fhayek
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To: MtnClimber
Something to think about before you head out to work today…ISIS, holding an RPG, while standing in a tent provided by USAID.
8 posted on 02/04/2025 5:35:55 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Trump:


9 posted on 02/04/2025 5:36:09 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Deep State itself is so immersed in extralegal operations and strategies that an honest and non-partisan application of existing law is sure to bring out all their inconsistencies and outright malfeasance of assigned duties.

They want lawfare, they may just end up on the wrong end of that stick.


10 posted on 02/04/2025 5:37:00 AM PST by alloysteel (This is yet another test. There are no right or wrong answers, only the correct response for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

Lets do a little math exercise concerning USAID!

They give away 40 billion US taxpayer dollars per year.
They were established in 1961

That is 64 years of giving away US taxpayer money.

40 billion x 64 = 2.56 TRILLION

Do you know how many cities there are in all of America?
according to google 19,500 total cities in the US.

If you gave every single incorporated city in the US (including ALL of those dying towns you drive through on road trips)

that would equal 131 million for EVERY SINGLE TOWN IN AMERICA!!!!!!!

Imagine how great America would be if we had spent that money on ourselves instead of funding transgender comic books in the congo or whatever!


11 posted on 02/04/2025 5:38:43 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MtnClimber

$25,000 for a “trans” opera in Colombia is, in the grand scheme of things, meaningless.

The USAID story, when properly told, isn’t about small change. It’s about hundreds of billions, maybe trillions, of taxpayer dollars disbursed outside of the legislative process on bribery, treason, subversion of foreign governments and probably our government as well, and maintenance of the infrastructure of an illegal shadow government inside our own executive branch.

I know the stupid gay comic books crap catches the eye, but don’t miss the chance to broadcast the big picture, because there’s only going to be one chance, and ready or not, it’s right here, right now.


12 posted on 02/04/2025 5:40:15 AM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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And it's not just USAID...

Data sleuth, Data Republican, just found HHS and FEMA linked to refugee programs: While debugging, I found an interesting UEI—not USAID, but HHS, including FEMA—heavily tied to refugee programs. No wonder we ran out of money for Helene victims!

Damn, I wish I had my Twitter/X account back...

13 posted on 02/04/2025 5:41:39 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
instead of funding transgender comic books in the congo

Please read my #12 on this thread. The loose change on "trans" stuff tells you who these people are, but it's not really the point.

14 posted on 02/04/2025 5:43:14 AM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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.We know it will all be challenged in the courts sooner or later. Rats aren’t going down without a fight. Right now they are shell shocked but that won’t last.


15 posted on 02/04/2025 5:54:04 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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“””All of this has driven the Democrats into a frenzy as they insist that an elected president managing the government is a coup.”””


In the business world the shareholders of a corporation expect the Chairman of the Board to effectively manage the income and expenses of the corporation.

In the Federal Government ‘we the people’ should expect the President to effectively manage the income and expenses of the Federal Government.

State Governors, County Administrators, and City Mayors should be held to the same standard as the President.


16 posted on 02/04/2025 5:58:15 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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So many items are related to deviant sex. What is up with that? Can some just not keep it in their pants?


17 posted on 02/04/2025 6:00:24 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


18 posted on 02/04/2025 6:00:43 AM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: fhayek
Why would it ever be illegal to weed out waste, fraud and corruption?

Because the corruption and fraud enrich the people who write the laws.

19 posted on 02/04/2025 6:04:51 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: bk1000
So many items are related to deviant sex. What is up with that?

Possibly CIA operations to destabilize countries.

20 posted on 02/04/2025 6:06:06 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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