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"“This is basically telling #USAID personnel not to tell the #truth about what they have seen,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior USAID official, told me, adding that this functionally commands USAID staff to “get in line with the #propaganda narrative.”

Yet the memo also shows that USAID leaks are infuriating #Trump officials precisely because they are exposing the horrifying consequences of the Trump-Musk efforts to cripple this agency."
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

#Musk #Trump #News #US #USPol
Text from article: This assistance—which includes aid for lifesaving food, shelter, and medicine—has gotten bogged down as USAID employees and groups that partner with the agency to distribute these things have struggled to access government funding streams halted by Trump. (A judge has ordered the funds to continue.) In one case, Musk claimed that the administration had restarted some disease-prevention funding, but it remains frozen, the Times reported. The directive ordering USAID employees to refrain from discussing this with the press represents an unnerving turn in this saga, given how ugly and blatant it is. “This is basically telling USAID personnel not to tell the truth about what they have seen,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior USAID official, told me, adding that this functionally commands USAID staff to “get in line with the propaganda narrative.” Yet the memo also shows that USAID leaks are infuriating Trump officials precisely because they are exposing the horrifying consequences of the Trump-Musk efforts to cripple this agency.

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo

Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
The New Republic
#news #trump #musk #us #uspol #propaganda #truth #usaid
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"the #USAID inspector general recently released a report finding that due to the Trump-Musk pause of funding, nearly $500 million in #food assistance was at risk of spoiling... barely 24 hours after the USAID inspector general revealed all this, #Trump fired him...

whole function of I.G.s is to independently document waste, inefficiency, & #corruption inside #government. That’s what the USAID I.G. did"
https://newrepublic.com/article/191578/trump-musk-scandal-usaid-leaked-memo

#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #US #USA #News #Press
Text from article: In this context, let’s also recall that the USAID inspector general recently released a report finding that due to the Trump-Musk pause of funding, nearly $500 million in food assistance was at risk of spoiling. That revealed an extraordinarily cruel and wanton attitude toward the global poor, and barely 24 hours after the USAID inspector general revealed all this, Trump fired him. It’s hard to adequately capture the absurdity and malevolence on display here. The whole function of I.G.s is to independently document waste, inefficiency, and corruption inside government. That’s what the USAID I.G. did in documenting the mismanagement that put huge stores of taxpayer-purchased food at risk of going to waste. This is exactly what I.G.s are supposed to do. But apparently because it made Trump and Musk look bad, the I.G. got the ax. Here you see Trumpworld believing both that they are politically vulnerable to revelations about the misery they’re inflicting on some of the world’s poorest people—they were clearly stung by the I.G.’s findings—and also that they can unabashedly fire the watchdogs who reveal it. They conspicuously did this right after the revelations hit, suggesting they lean toward feeling they can act with total impunity.

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo

Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
The New Republic
#news #trump #musk #gop #us #politics #press #usa #uspol #food #government #corruption #Coup #usaid

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