'Billions of dollars have been stolen': Trump slams USAID, other agencies for 'payoffs' to 'fake news media' like Politico
"The left wing 'rag,' known as 'Politico,' seems to have received $8,000,000."
Libby Emmons
Brooklyn NY
Feb 6, 2025
As the strings begin to unravel at the agency formerly known as USAID, or the United States Agency for International Development, President Donald Trump lambasted the spending that's been taking place there. He said in a Truth Social post that "billions of dollars have been stollen" [sic] at the agency, much of it going to the "fake news media." On Wednesday, it was revealed that numerous government agencies were paying for premium Politico subscriptions to the tune of over $8 million during the Biden administration.
While government agencies had subscriptions to the Politico Pro service prior to Biden's ascendancy to the White House, those figures skyrocketed once he took office. Officials at multiple agencies under the Biden administration were paying for a service from the left-leaning outlet, which ran positive pieces about Biden and his administration's policies while blasting Trump. This was the outlet that quashed the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the presidential election in 2020 by publishing a letter from 51 current and former intelligence officials claiming that it had all the "hallmarks" of Russian disinformation. Politico also leaked the decision from the Supreme Court in the Dobbs case which overturned Roe v. Wade, turning the question of abortion legality over to the states.
"Looks like billions of dollars have been stollen at USAID," [sic] Trump said in all caps, "and other agencies, much of it going to the fake news media as a 'payoff' for creating good stories about the Democrats. The left wing 'rag,' known as 'Politico,' seems to have received $8,000,000. Did the New York Times receive money???" He asked. "Who else did??? This could be the biggest scandal of them all, perhaps the biggest in history! The Democrats can't hid from this one. Too big, too dirty."
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