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Here’s how the USAID grift works
X ^ | 2/3/25 | Ian Miles Cheong

Posted on 02/03/2025 7:45:17 AM PST by hardspunned

1) If you want taxpayer dollars from the government, be a serial grifter like Bill Kristol. 2) Create an institute dedicated to “defending democracy.” 3) USAID then gives you money to “defend democracy.” Spend a portion of what they give you on kickbacks to Democrats’ campaigns and unpaid PR, and push their agenda domestically or internationally. 4) Pay yourself a salary through the institute and profit.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: billkristol; billthegrifter; deepstate; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; grift; griftkristol; misappropriation; sarahlongwell; thebullfart; thebulwark; usaid
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“Hello Mr. Kristol,

For you, the deep state is preferable because you are listed as the President of Defending Democracy (EIN 831567380) which is an indirect beneficiary of USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

You are exposed.”

https://x.com/datarepublican/status/1886161143108149298?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA

1 posted on 02/03/2025 7:45:17 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

https://x.com/datarepublican/status/1886161143108149298?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


2 posted on 02/03/2025 7:45:42 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: hardspunned

Lots of exposure and full drawers as a result these days.


3 posted on 02/03/2025 7:49:23 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: hardspunned

The more you know (:rainbow)


4 posted on 02/03/2025 7:50:06 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: hardspunned

And don’t forget -
Step 5: Get the new agency classified so you keep it secret.


5 posted on 02/03/2025 7:50:34 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: hardspunned

Excellent post.

Notice they had a SCIF in the USAID HQ.

That means that CIA (and probably other intelligence agencies) were running operations out of there.

The administration has cut one finger off the Deep State monster.


6 posted on 02/03/2025 7:51:34 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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That means that CIA (and probably other intelligence agencies) were running operations out of there.

Totally

7 posted on 02/03/2025 7:53:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: hardspunned

This particular Kristol play is notable for the hundreds of thousands paid to Sarah Longwell, the nasty never-Trumper who started a never-Trump organization and is publisher of the never-Trumper “Bulwark” (think Jonah Goldberg and Mona Charen).

Notably as well, this org reports hundreds of thousands in lobbying costs.

(Source: 2022 990)


8 posted on 02/03/2025 7:57:20 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: hardspunned

I wonder if gitmo is really for these guys like Bill Krystal. We should compromise with them offer them: exile to remote island or charges of treason with a chance that you will be put to death.


9 posted on 02/03/2025 7:59:37 AM PST by tiki (To)
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To: hardspunned

oh! and dont forget the 10% for the “big guy”


10 posted on 02/03/2025 8:01:54 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: hardspunned

There are approximately 1.5 million NGOs in the USA, all grifting for taxpayer money - kicking back what they need to the politicians to keep the grave train rolling.


11 posted on 02/03/2025 8:08:46 AM PST by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
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People do wonder how Kristol and NR manage to make their money, considering their fan base is 5%-10% of what it was in the past, as MAGA has taken the rest.

...now we know.


12 posted on 02/03/2025 8:13:47 AM PST by BobL
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To: PMAS

Trump is sending the rolling “grave train” to where it belongs! :)


13 posted on 02/03/2025 8:22:37 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! Thereon)
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To: hardspunned
But, but, but, but.... Bill is a neoconservative.

Should be non-conservative.

14 posted on 02/03/2025 8:30:10 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: BobL

NYT and WaPo and others make money the same way? Is that how the lefty media stays in business?


15 posted on 02/03/2025 8:36:34 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: hardspunned

I suppose there are a lot of Democrats consoling themselves that they only lost 50-47% in the last election. But that was with a 2:1 spending advantage, driven by the massive amounts of plunder from American taxpayers and debt financing going to leftist organizations, bureaucrats and the like. Trump is taking a broadsword to those financial flows. If they think continuing to act crazy while losing all their illicit financing is a winning strategy, they are in for a rough couple election cycles.


16 posted on 02/03/2025 8:53:03 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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I bet Elon got to DC, asked where all the money was going, and nobody could answer.

So he asks how payments are made and it turns out one department does them all. Obviously he’s like, “great, there, I want to go there.”

What’s crazy is no previous admin *even thought to ask*— Charlie (@_charlienoyes) February 3, 2025


17 posted on 02/03/2025 8:54:00 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: hardspunned
It's all a connected conspiracy. "The History of the Intelligence State" -- an essential 40 min lecture on the origin story of The [Deepstate Intel] Blob.
18 posted on 02/03/2025 8:56:01 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: virgil

“NYT and WaPo and others make money the same way? Is that how the lefty media stays in business?”

OBVIOUSLY this is going on. Which leads to the question: How can we claim to have a ‘free’ legacy media with this crap going on?

By the way, if you want to see how bad it’s become, watch a 2024 Election Day video - during the day, they kept reporting that Trump was getting killed in every demographic based on Exit Polling. One guess as to why they lied about that.


19 posted on 02/03/2025 8:57:53 AM PST by BobL
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To: hardspunned

Kristal is/ was a huge supporter of the failed Ukie war, the endless corruption, the endless lies, need we say more?


20 posted on 02/03/2025 8:58:39 AM PST by delta7
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