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He may have a fault or two but his work in USAID has been uncovering some serious corruption. If you refuse to acknowledge that then i don't know what to tell you.
Can you give some examples? Genuinely curious
Well, if you want to take it from the horses mouth , its supporting DEI and LGBTQ+ rights internationally. Which sounds less like "corruption" and more like "the point", but what do I know?
And to save everyone a click, here is the link I posted's full list of "corruption" :
edit: they say the list goes "on and on", but I couldn't find anything. Presumably stuff not added to the aforementioned post were even less convincing, and as such didn't make the cut.
So this is decades long waste and fraud, but a significantly higher amount of money for handouts for the ultra-rich authorized by Trump, including money piped directly to his family, is fine?
From the PPP program:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/12/02/new-ppp-loan-data-reveals-most-of-the-525-billion-given-out-went-to-larger-businesses-some-with-trump-kushner-ties/
It's crazy right? I guess they hope that blaming the "DEI Boogyman" enough will draw attention away from their actual comic book evil levels of corruption.
Something that’s become evident, too, is that a lot of people really can’t grasp how much money is being stolen by the rich. When the administration says that DEI initiatives cost, let’s just say, $200 million, it’s easy to say “well that’s way too much money!” But that amount is a pittance compared to $250 billion into the pockets of 5% of participants of only a single program. Regular people are so far removed from these numbers that we can’t even wrap our heads around them when we hear them
this is just one example:
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1887864991560192107
Source without an actual source.
Assuming it's all true. No shit money goes to organizations that provide aid. And the amounts that are being spent are almost nothing. For example in my job $100 million contracts are common for single locations.
The whole situation is literally the rich guy pointing at a poorer person and telling you to be mad they got pennies while the rich guy is shoveling billions into their tax breaks.
While USAID definitely funds/funded many ridiculous things (such as this) they also provide much-needed food and medicine to a lot of people - for cynical politically-motivated soft-power reasons, but still. It seems very likely that abruptly cutting off those programs will cause some people to die. I really hope someone (the PRC seems likely) will step in and replace some of those programs!
I think Trump supporters have a different definition of corruption than normal people.