Elon Musk and Doge investigate a $550 million USAID bribery scheme involving kickbacks to Politico, Reuters, and the New York Times. The scandal includes funding for controversial projects like an Irish DEI musical and a trans comic book in Peru, while four individuals recently pleaded guilty regarding country club access and sports tickets. This revelation highlights urgent concerns over wasted taxpayer funds during Social Security insolvency and rising inflation, suggesting deep corruption within federal aid distribution. [Automatically generated summary]
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USAID Money and Politico00:02:42
USAID, look at that.
You guys, the camera going out again.
Hopefully, you could hear me.
Hopefully, the microphone didn't go.
Hopefully, that's good.
Okay, I'm going to rely on you to tell me.
A USAID scheme being uncovered.
Don't forget, like, this USAID has been a source of a whole lot of concern, right?
Elon Musk and Doge, they went in there and they started peeling back the layers and they started getting down to nitty gritty really fast.
And we learned there was all this money going to all these crazy projects, kind of pet projects.
You know, the DEI musical in Ireland, for example, or, you know, the trans comic book or whatever you have it.
I mean, just in Peru, like weird kind of stuff.
And you're like, is this how they employ everybody, you know, that's coming out of academia with a PhD and who knows what, right?
Is this where they go?
Is this like, you know, that I don't know.
I mean, it didn't really make any sense, frankly, at all.
You know, I get it.
They want to advance the US agenda, but when did the US agenda become all that?
People are saying, hmm.
And there's been this backlash against it.
And in an environment where we can't afford a whole lot, we get news that Social Security is on the brink and it's going to go belly up faster than we ever thought.
And you're trying to deal with healthcare costs and rising inflation, this, that, and the other.
Do we really have money to be focused on all of these weird projects all over the world?
And the short answer is no.
Anyway, one of the concerns in all of this was just exactly what the kickbacks were like who was getting what.
It certainly was a question on the media front when we saw, for example, that Politico was getting millions of dollars and it was all tied to their Politico subscriptions that you get like a Bloomberg subscription, right?
I get it on Wall Street, you kind of need it for trading.
People have like a Bloomberg terminal.
Well, here you need like a Politico terminal?
I don't think so, but they were getting all this money.
And if you looked, it actually coincided with the election.
Don't forget, Politico was actually the group that they put the letter, right?
For the 51X spooks, we were just talking about that who believes what is misinformation or disinformation.
They kind of had them on speed dial.
And then they had some of these other organizations, like Reuters, for example.
They were getting a lot of USAID money.
All these organizations, New York Times was getting USAID money.
And then you wonder why everybody spots the same darn narrative over and over again.
We're not getting any USAID money here on the Trish Regan Show.
No, right?
Fully independent.
But you got to say to yourself, is this why they all sing a Chorus all the time.
And I think the short answer to that is yes.
And so we're learning more and more by the day.
Media Organizations on Speed Dial00:00:25
Now, this breaking story just coming to us four people have pleaded guilty in this USAID scheme, which sounds quite colorful involving country clubs and sports tickets.
What do you know?
Okay, let's listen.
Here's a Fox report on it that just came forward.
Well, four people are pleading guilty, all part of a half billion dollar bribery scandal involving USAID.