Posted on 02/05/2025 9:54:55 PM PST by texas booster
“If you live by executive order, you can be canceled by executive order,” says Victor Davis Hanson on this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” when talking about the Trump administration’s decision to restructure the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), originally created by President John F. Kennedy via executive order in 1961.
“It's been released that they were subsidizing everything from trans festivities overseas to gay comic books. But what was very interesting was there was a $40 million-plus grant to the Wuhan virology lab and channeled, apparently, through EcoHealth, Peter Daszak’s organization.
This is important because under testimony, we were under the impression that Anthony Fauci only had his hands on $600,000.”
00:00 Introduction: Trump's USAID Cancellation
00:50 Trump's Rapid Actions and Democrat Reactions
01:15 Funding Controversies and Hidden Agendas
02:38 Trump's Unorthodox Moves and Opposition Disarray
04:57 The Audacity Strategy: Full Speed Ahead
06:55 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
One of the wonderful Prof Hanson video's that incudes quotes from Gen Patton: "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace."
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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me too :)
I see no such movement in their actions and words yet.
I hope they NEVER change.
But as usual with the dem party...a “hero” will come out of nowhere, speak of being in the middle but not mean it and climb the dem ranks of power.
We shall see.
By all appearances of the DNC convention they are not just stuck on stupid but they are doubling down on it. I hope they stick to their agenda.
VDH is an interesting character. I still have not figured out the schedule to his podcasts if there is one. He can be a bit cheeky in a nerd like way but he is most assuredly very much with it. I never understood the mind and intellect of classicists. Being what some consider a hard core engineer I suppose that is normal. His span of knowledge is wide but on the edges not often complete or even accurate. Not that he is not capable of better if he wants to be.
“If you live by executive order, you can be canceled by executive order,”
This is my fear. They have two years to find a way to encode the EOs into hard law so the corruptocrats can’t just put it back when they get back into power.
At the same time, the CEOs and Board members of the legacy media who have been giving cover to the Democratic Party in exchange for USAID monies need to be indicted for being Enemies of the State.
As VDH states...do NOT take your foot off the accelerator for a minute. It needs to happen quickly to wake up our friends and family members who have fallen under the spell of the mainstream media's lies and distortions.
Samantha Powers wasn’t she involved in some Barack Hussein Obama scandals ?
Multiple arrests need to be made then we can just sit back and watch the rats tear each other apart.
And I hope it costs them big time in 2026 and 2028.
VDH: It’s been revealed that USAID was subsidizing
everything from trans festivities overseas to gay comic books.
But what was revelatory is its $40 million-plus grant to the
Wuhan virology lab and channeled, apparently, through EcoHealth.
“We were under the impression that Anthony Fauci only had his hands on $600,000.”
I agree. VDH is a historian who has morphed into a social and political commentator. He seems to be late to the dance most of the time. His commentary doesn’t add anything new. It’s just a rehash of things we already know.
Every local DNC building should be encircled with crime scene tape.
Exactly—this is not just a disagreement on issues and ideology.
The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
Now we have the receipts to prove it.
Apparently Trump has already done something about Daszak. Recently the United States Department of Health and Human Services debarred Daszak five years, for his involvement in virus research in China.
I've often wondered who came up the idea of using a Virus to steal an election and if history will ever reveal the name. Fauci remains as my main suspect.
Please put me on VDH ping list.
@nataliegwinters-———
“The secrecy of the USAID grant database is by design.
Look up the addresses of entities receiving millions of tax
dollars on Google maps and you’ll find shacks or empty land.
It’s pure money laundering.”
USAID has been used as the Democrat Left’s get rich quick organ for more than a generation.
Its easy.You go on a Congressional junket to a 3rd World country and offer “help” via USAID for building schools for destitute children , out in the jungle, then you arrange for
supervision of the funds through a Congressmen’s/woman’s office.The proceeds go out and a few schools are built but the corrupt third world politician gets his arranged cut and reserves another portion for the Congress critter in a numbered bank account somewhere in the Soros banking network.
If a Congress critter gets three or four of these USAID grifts going, they get rich very quickly as the gravy train just keeps on rolling.And if that 3rd world buddy politician starts to turn, just call up the CIA and have him shaken down or killed, to be replaced by another. Then a CIA spook gets /her cut of the vigorish. DOING this with Hamas paid big for some politicians.
Big money. So big that some politicians have to set up a foundation, like the Clinton Foundation.
And Trump is rolling it all up.I pray that Divine Providence keeps Trump and his family safe. Hitting those deep state wallets puts them all into further jeopardy.
Dems like Maxine Watters and Chuck The Schmuck Schumer are frothing at the mouth, threatening to fight in the streets, NOT because their USAID give-aways are gone, BUT because their get rich kick back schemes are no longer pouring money into their wallets.
They need to tackle the issue of vote integrity. Find the algirithim and do more than just hold a few hearings. Take the matter before the Amercian people. Remove the backdoor access to our process that has allowed this to happen. Demand full transpearancy. Every polling station should have live stream cameras, and anyone removing or attempting to remove election observers should be treated like Brandon’s thugs treated the J6 crowd. No more counting and finding ballots in a back room. Election fraud should have Harsh consequences. No more flipping votes or manufacturing ballots in the back rooms.
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