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.
If the democRATs are panicking that means Elon is over the target.
will anyone go to jail or suffer any consequences whatsoever? No. Just like always.
And still, nothing will/would come of it if proven. On the other hand, just what was the 'High Crime and Misdemeanor' that Trump statutorily violated?
Somebody needs to go to jail!
It is thoroughly disgusting what the lefties/DIMs have done to this country. I only wish this were the middle ages when consequences for criminal behavior were a tad different.
YES! Going medieval on these individuals would be appropriate. Otherwise, civilization suffers.
Funneling taxpayers dollars from one agency to another to some disguised org. to some other disguised org, then into the hands of traitors. Right out of money laundering, espionage, treason and crime novels, except it’s not fiction. Just goes to show we really have no idea where our tax dollars go. Politicians with no conscience, no morals, will do anything to remain in power and control of their sheep. Drain the swamp and the deep state!
I want to see Vindman held up to the light.
amazing the one track minds of doom and gloom on FR.
what’s the benefit of instantly speaking negatively and not making room for God to do some thing out of the ordinary? it’s like some people are addicted to whatever feeling they get from thinking worst all the time.
That my FRiend is not of God but lies of the devil, who has a lot of people snared.
PRAY!! have FAITH!
It would certainly give any maggot in the future pause before they tried to do it again, that’s for sure.
He’ll block the sun and cause global cooling if that happens
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.
It is Treason. It’s an operation by the CIA, against the people of the United States on US soil. They need to swing people, or it’s going to keep gettting worse. Not joking, government must serve the public, or it’s not a Republic. Democracy dies, when the CIA runs operations against taxpayers and lies.
I agree.
The used Five Eyes to help impeach Trump, as well.
Let's be real, it's going to be very difficult to find a jury that will convict. We've become that polarized.
The only way we're going to win is if Trump succeeds in bringing back jobs and eliminating government waste. That is where the battle must be won, and we've got to do what we can to help him.
Desperate Democrats manipulated a major organ of the US
govt, using tax dollars to make the case for impeachment?
That would be highly illegal and possibly treasonous..........and btw,
just what was the ‘High Crime and Misdemeanor’ statute Trump allegedly violated?
The people responsible for this need to have accidents - falling off of buildings and getting crushed/blown up in car accidents.
That's the kind of justice I imagine happening!
Was the Pope a Communist?
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