Coolest. President. Ever.
https://x.com/PressSec/status/1903610590980931602
Every liberal should be REQUIRED to watch this
Mike Benz explains what USAID was really used for: “USAID has most of the worst scandals of US Statecraft and covert action in the past 2 decades, have actually been from USAID, rather than the CIA”
“There's a reason for this:
So after the big scandals against the Democrats and liberals and anti-war groups in the 60’s and 70’s reforms were put in place
— Every covert action the CIA does, has to be authorized by the president and what's called the presidential finding to take that covert action
So if the CIA senior leadership — wants to run a covert action in a region, but they don't think the president will approve, or the president doesn't wanna formally sign off on it in case it goes wrong. They can walk right over to USAID who can do the exact same thing the CIA does, except they can call it ‘Discrete democracy promotion’ because it's not technically an intelligence agency. So it's not technically covert action. So it doesn't require executive branch approval or foreknowledge.”
USAID is how The CIA runs their operations bypassing all normal oversight and approvals
THIS is what USAID really is. It’s not feeding hungry children overseas. It’s CIA.
“That's why I say when it's too dirty for the CIA, you give it to USAID”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1903610596849054145