The Trish Regan Show - JUST IN: Four Plead GUILTY—$550 MILLION USAID Bribery BOMBSHELL!
Aired: 2025-06-21
Duration: 03:08


=== USAID Money and Politico (02:42) ===

[00:00:00]  USAID, look at that.
[00:00:02]  You guys, the camera going out again.
[00:00:04]  Hopefully, you could hear me.
[00:00:04]  Hopefully, the microphone didn't go.
[00:00:06]  Hopefully, that's good.
[00:00:07]  Okay, I'm going to rely on you to tell me.
[00:00:09]  A USAID scheme being uncovered.
[00:00:11]  Don't forget, like, this USAID has been a source of a whole lot of concern, right?
[00:00:18]  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.
[00:00:25]  And we learned there was all this money going to all these crazy projects, kind of pet projects.
[00:00:30]  You know, the DEI musical in Ireland, for example, or, you know, the trans comic book or whatever you have it.
[00:00:38]  I mean, just in Peru, like weird kind of stuff.
[00:00:40]  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?
[00:00:47]  Is this where they go?
[00:00:49]  Is this like, you know, that I don't know.
[00:00:51]  I mean, it didn't really make any sense, frankly, at all.
[00:00:55]  You know, I get it.
[00:00:58]  They want to advance the US agenda, but when did the US agenda become all that?
[00:01:02]  People are saying, hmm.
[00:01:03]  And there's been this backlash against it.
[00:01:05]  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.
[00:01:14]  And you're trying to deal with healthcare costs and rising inflation, this, that, and the other.
[00:01:19]  Do we really have money to be focused on all of these weird projects all over the world?
[00:01:25]  And the short answer is no.
[00:01:27]  Anyway, one of the concerns in all of this was just exactly what the kickbacks were like who was getting what.
[00:01:33]  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?
[00:01:50]  I get it on Wall Street, you kind of need it for trading.
[00:01:53]  People have like a Bloomberg terminal.
[00:01:55]  Well, here you need like a Politico terminal?
[00:01:58]  I don't think so, but they were getting all this money.
[00:01:59]  And if you looked, it actually coincided with the election.
[00:02:04]  Don't forget, Politico was actually the group that they put the letter, right?
[00:02:07]  For the 51X spooks, we were just talking about that who believes what is misinformation or disinformation.
[00:02:12]  They kind of had them on speed dial.
[00:02:14]  And then they had some of these other organizations, like Reuters, for example.
[00:02:18]  They were getting a lot of USAID money.
[00:02:20]  All these organizations, New York Times was getting USAID money.
[00:02:23]  And then you wonder why everybody spots the same darn narrative over and over again.
[00:02:28]  We're not getting any USAID money here on the Trish Regan Show.
[00:02:30]  No, right?
[00:02:32]  Fully independent.
[00:02:33]  But you got to say to yourself, is this why they all sing a Chorus all the time.
[00:02:38]  And I think the short answer to that is yes.
[00:02:40]  And so we're learning more and more by the day.

=== Media Organizations on Speed Dial (00:25) ===

[00:02:42]  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.
[00:02:54]  What do you know?
[00:02:55]  Okay, let's listen.
[00:02:56]  Here's a Fox report on it that just came forward.
[00:02:59]  Well, four people are pleading guilty, all part of a half billion dollar bribery scandal involving USAID.
[00:03:05]  Mike Emanuel has the story from Washington.