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February 5, 2025 - USAID and the CIA were behind the impeachment of Trump in 2019

The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden.

In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.

Eric Ciaramella: The Democratic national security “whistleblower,” whose complaint led to President Trump’s impeachment, was a close colleague of Kendall-Taylor. It’s not clear if Ciaramella also played a role in the drafting of the January 2017 assessment. (Credit: whitehouse.gov)

Reporting by Drop Site News last year revealed that the CIA analyst relied on reporting by a supposedly independent investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which appears to have effectively operated as an arm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which President Trump has just shut down. The CIA whistleblower complaint cited a long report by OCCRP four times.

The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were “key hidden actors behind a plan” by Trump to investigate the Bidens. According to the story, those two businessmen connected Giuliani to two former Ukrainian prosecutors. The OCCRP story was crucial to the House Democrats’ impeachment claim, which is that Trump dispatched Giuliani as part of a coordinated effort to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, which is why the whistleblower cited it four times.

In a 2024 documentary that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRP’s dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRP’s “annual work plan” and approves new hires of “key personnel.” NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, and Drop Site News in the United States.

However, according to a Mediapart story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast “after US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster’s journalists involved in the project.”

On December 16, Drop Site’s Ryan Grim posted a link on X to the 26-minute-long documentary. “NDR, Germany’s public broadcaster, is facing a censorship scandal and has defended itself by saying it never killed a news report about OCCRP and its State Department funding — b/c no report was ever produced to kill,” said Grim. “That was absurd — and dozens, maybe hundreds, of journalists knew it to be false, and now of course, someone has leaked it.”

The journalistic collaboration revealed that OCCRP’s original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, “Drew’s just nervous about being linked with law enforcement,” referring to Sullivan. “If people who are going to give you information think you’re just a cop, maybe it’s a problem.”

OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan told NDR that his organization had “probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government… and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.”

As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as “cut-outs,” to interfere in US politics this way.

OCCRP threatened to file a lawsuit against Public in response to questions we sent. “The premise of your article is factually false and defamatory,” wrote Miranda Patrucic, the Editor in Chief of OCCRP, over email. “The claim by Dropsite News and partner media that USAID has control over editorial appointments has been disproven and we suggest you read our response to that.”

But neither OCCRP nor anyone else disproved Drop Site’s allegations and Drop Site stands by them. And the evidence does not support OCCRP’s claim of journalistic independence….

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February 5, 2025 - Hillary Clinton is dinged twice by new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a Twitter/X exchange about DOGE

I know you’re lashing out because DOGE is uncovering your family’s obscene grifting via USAID, but I won’t let you lie and distort facts. The FAA administrator announced he resigned over a month before Trump took office, and the air traffic controllers were always exempt from Trump’s civil service buyouts.

The previous administration shamelessly used USDOT as a slush fund for the Green New Scam, throwing away money and resources on wasteful environmental and social justice projects rather than updating our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems and other critical infrastructure.

I’m returning this department to its mission of safety by using innovative technology in transportation and infrastructure. Your team had its chance and failed. We’re moving on without you because the American people want us to make America’s transportation system great again. And yes, we’re bringing the 22-year-olds with us.

February 5, 2025 - Seventeen State Attorneys General unite to challenge Biden's pardon and vow to prosecute Anthony Fauci

Seventeen state attorneys general have formally requested aid from Republican congressional leaders to delve deeper into the origins of COVID-19 and explore possible legal actions against Dr. Anthony Fauci at the state level.

This concerted effort, spearheaded by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, aims to circumvent the preemptive pardon issued by Joe Biden on his last day in office, which sought to shield Fauci from federal prosecution.

This pardon covers any federal offenses Fauci may have committed between January 1, 2014, and the date of the pardon.

“President Biden’s blanket pardon of Dr. Fauci is a shameful attempt to prevent accountability,” said Attorney General Wilson.

“We are fully prepared to take appropriate action to ensure justice is served if our findings indicate violations of state laws.”

The state attorneys general emphasize that the federal pardon does not preclude state-level legal actions and are actively seeking further details from Congress to facilitate state investigations and potential prosecutions.

In a forceful letter addressed to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the attorneys general praised Congressional efforts to uncover potential misconduct and urged cooperation to pursue any violations of state laws.

The letter reads:

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 2/5/2025)  (Archive)

February 6, 2025 - New Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent lays to rest media rumors about DOGE following the money at Treasury

February 6, 2025 - DOGE: The USAID funding system is designed with multiple layers of plausible deniability; Creates new tool to counter the secrecy

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Individuals seem intent on preserving the status quo. Why?

I used AI to help come up with the clearest explanation of the Uniparty possible.

The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) is a coalition of three organizations:

✅ International Republican Institute (IRI) – Aligns with center-right and conservative political groups.
✅ National Democratic Institute (NDI) – Works with center-left and progressive groups.
✅ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) – Focuses on electoral integrity and administration.

USAID:
💰 CEPPS operates under funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote democracy, elections, and political party development worldwide.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), another USAID entity, also supports IRI and NDI, along with other initiatives globally.

In summary: USAID and NED provide funding, CEPPS (via IRI, NDI, and IFES) implements programs, and IRI/NDI engage with political parties abroad, mirroring the U.S. Republican and Democratic Party structures.

h/t X22Report

February 7, 2025 - Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocks DOGE from accessing Treasury data

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (Credit: public domain)

On Thursday Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly decided she was the true elected leader of the United States and she blocked the the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from obtaining access to ‘sensitive‘ Treasury Department payment records for a period of time.

Kollar-Kotelly is very upset that President Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE investigators were finding billions of dollars in fraudulent payments in their investigation of the federal government.

Kollar-Kotelly decided she must take action and she put a stop to this fraud-finding operation.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her order that Treasury officials “will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service.”

Here is a link to the order here.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 2/07/2025)  (Archive)

February 7, 2025 - Trump revokes Joe Biden's security clearances and stops his daily intelligence briefings

(Donald Trump/Truth Social, 2/7/2025)

February 7, 2024 - U.S. taxpayers are funding an obscure news agency through USAID called Internews Network; There are 467 grants totaling $476.4 million

Internews launches the Media Viability Accelerator, September 2024 (Credit: public domain)

This is way bigger than the Politico scandal.

U.S. taxpayers have been funding an obscure news agency called Internews Network for years.

Internews is funded heavily by the U.S. government, primarily through USAID. There are 467 grants for Internews totaling a whopping $476.4 MILLION on the USASpending.gov website.

These massive figures track with Internews’ Form 990s, where it discloses tens of millions of dollars in government grants every year.

What is Internews? The organization claims to be an “international nonprofit” that supports “independent media” in emerging democracies and uses media as a tool to reduce conflict.

A government supporting “independent media” is obviously a contradiction in terms so something else must be going on here.

The National Endowment for Democracy, founded in 1983 by Ronald Reagan to promote “democracy” worldwide, but since hijacked by globalists and leftists, has also given significantly to Internews through its Center for International Media.

NED was briefly defunded in 1993 by Republicans, but currently its budget is estimated to be a massive $330 million a year. Trump had proposed slashing NED’s funding in 2018.

Internews is listed as a recipient of NED’s contributions. For example, the NED’s media initiatives through CIMA was at least $18.7 million in 2015 and Internews was one of the listed recipients.

NED has been strongly associated with engineering “colored revolutions” around the globe, and by extension, so is Internews. They are both involved in nearly ever hotspot on the planet: Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Cambodia, Afghanistan… the list goes on and on.

Who used to sit on the Board of Directors for National Endowment for Democracy? None other than Victoria Nuland, who was the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024.

Who ran USAID from 2021 to 2025, which funded Internews? Samantha Power.

If you look at Internews Agency’s board you realize these are not your average “journalists.”

Jeanne Bourgault is President and CEO of Internews and is an agenda contributor for the World Economic Forum. (Credit: LinkedIn)

Jeanne Bourgault has been leading Internews as President and CEO since 2019, according to its official website. She joined the organization in 2001 and has been instrumental in expanding its programs to over 100 countries, focusing on supporting local media and ensuring access to “trustworthy information.” Before her tenure at Internews, Bourgault worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including a three-year assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

Meera Selva currently serves as the Chief Executive for Europe at Internews. She previously directed the Journalist Fellowship Program at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, again from the website.

Jodie Ginsberg served as the Chief Executive of Internews Europe from 2019 until 2022. Prior to this role, she was the CEO of Index on Censorship, a London-based freedom of expression organization. Ginsberg began her career as a journalist with Reuters, the website notes.

Get the picture?

This is, of course, nothing new. The U.S. government’s funding of media operations and so-called journalists across the world has a long history.

During the mid-’70s, in the aftermath of Watergate, two congressional investigations – the Church and Pike committees, after Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike – uncovered covert U.S. government operations in foreign countries.

They confirmed that that the CIA funded journalists (both foreign and American) and the U.S. government was subsidizing foreign print media, radio and television outlets – something the Soviets were also doing.

The CIA also ran Project Mockingbird, a covert operation to influence and manipulate journalists and to disseminate propaganda and control public perception.

Declassified documents and investigative reports suggest that the CIA has long engaged in media manipulation, particularly during the Cold War era.

As former CIA Director William Colby once put it, “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”

The CIA appears to have reorganized after having been exposed by the Church Committee in 1975. Those media manipulation operations seem to have been redirected through the State Department and USAID.

It is high time for another “Church Committee” to expose the U.S. government’s attack on free speech and independent media in the United States and throughout the world.

February 7, 2025 - Trump fires Colleen Shogan, head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

Colleen Shogan (Credit: public domain)

President Donald Trump fired Colleen Joy Shogan, the head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

This is the same agency that targeted Trump over so-called “classified documents” lawfully stored at Mar-a-Lago.

“At the direction of President Trump, the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight. We thank Colleen Shogan for her service,” Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office said on Friday evening.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 2/07/2025)  (Archive)

February 8, 2025 - USAID and Internews Networks orchestrate global media control

USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for global advertising “exclusion list” to censor “disinformation” at the World Economic Forum.

Like what they did to 𝕏?

“Disinformation makes money. We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising industry because a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content, and so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists and really try to challenge the global advertising industry to focus their ad dollars towards the good news.”

Notably, Bourgault’s call for global ad boycotts coincided with a widespread advertising boycott targeting Elon Musk’s 𝕏, which has been at the forefront of defending free speech online.

USAID has funneled $472 million to Internews and $68 million to the WEF, where both groups collaborate on censoring the internet.

Is this a good use of American taxpayer funds?

USAID-funded Internews went from funding media organizations with George Soros to overthrow governments in Eastern Europe to calling for advertising boycotts to censor free speech online.

This is a textbook example of U.S. regime change tactics being redirected against domestic populism and American citizens.

In the 1990s, Internews partnered with the Soros Foundation to fund media organizations in post-Soviet nations, playing a pivotal role in the color revolutions of the 2000s in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine.

During Georgia’s Rose Revolution, Internews funded and trained journalists at Rustavi-2 TV, the leading channel driving the uprising.

“Media was very good at informing the public about what was going on, and it had a huge role in calling people onto the streets.” – Marc Behrendt, former Internews director for Georgia

By 2003, in Ukraine, Internews had conducted 220 media training programs, trained over 2,800 journalists, and produced more than 220 television and 1,000 radio programs. It also funded Telekritika, an online outlet that played a central role in the 2004 Orange Revolution.

After Brexit and Donald Trump’s election in 2016, Internews—now working with the USAID-funded World Economic Forum (WEF)—shifted its focus to pushing advertising boycotts to suppress online dissent.

What was once a U.S.-funded operation to overthrow foreign regimes is now being used to silence American citizens and dismantle Trump’s populist MAGA movement.

The Price Tag?

USAID has funneled over $470 million in taxpayer dollars into Internews.

The dissemination of information has long been a battleground for ideological and political power. Control the narrative, and you control the minds that shape the future. Internews, a nonprofit organization that positions itself as a champion of independent media, is in reality one of the most insidious forces in global information warfare. With its extensive reach—boasting the training of 100,000 journalists in over 100 countries—Internews operates as an international media cartel, shaping narratives that align exclusively with far-left ideologies while undermining conservative movements worldwide. It functions as an enforcement mechanism for progressive orthodoxy, cloaking itself in the rhetoric of free press and journalistic integrity while methodically silencing dissent.

One might initially dismiss such claims as hyperbolic, but the evidence is staggering. In Ukraine alone, Internews has trained 5,000 journalists. Globally, it has indoctrinated 38,000 media educators, reporters, and fact-checkers on the purported mission of combating “misinformation”—a term increasingly deployed to delegitimize viewpoints that deviate from left-wing narratives. Behind the benign facade of media training lies a targeted effort to shape public discourse by ensuring that only select ideological perspectives receive legitimacy. Internews does not seek merely to report the news but to curate what is permissible as news.

Internews’s funding sources betray its true objectives. It is no accident that USAID, the CIA’s tool for ideological influence operations, provides up to 90% of Internews’s budget. USAID’s historical entanglement with regime-change operations and the promotion of progressive social policies should alone raise suspicions about the kind of “independent media” that Internews claims to support. But even more telling is the financial backing from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a network infamous for bankrolling leftist movements under the pretense of fostering democracy. The confluence of Soros’s globalist agenda and USAID’s interventionist ethos ensures that Internews operates not as a neutral media entity, but as a propaganda wing for international leftism.

Internews has played a direct role in creating political upheavals across the world, particularly in Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan. In each of these nations, CIA and USAID foreign policy interests have leveraged Internews to foster dissent, support opposition movements, and ultimately engineer instability. By flooding these regions with Internews-trained journalists and media networks, the organization has been instrumental in shaping narratives that align with U.S. geopolitical objectives, undermining sovereign governments in favor of pro-Western factions.

Former high-ranking U.S. officials, including Victoria Nuland and Samantha Power, have been key figures in overseeing agencies that fund Internews, reinforcing its ties to globalist foreign policy objectives. Nuland, in particular, played a pivotal role in utilizing Internews to control Ukrainian media. Under her direction, Internews and USAID effectively took control of 9 out of 10 major media companies in Ukraine, ensuring that local reporting adhered to a strict pro-Western and anti-Russian agenda. These media outlets became entirely dependent on Internews and USAID funding, with their reporters trained and guided by Internews operatives. It is no coincidence that Internews-backed journalists were instrumental in organizing the Maidan protests and the broader color revolution that ultimately led to regime change in Ukraine.

A closer examination of Internews’s role in narrative control further unravels its claims of neutrality. The organization is heavily involved in determining which news outlets are deemed purveyors of “misinformation”—a label that has become a convenient pretext for censorship. It does not merely flag content for scrutiny; it pressures advertisers to withhold funding from outlets that fail to conform to its ideological litmus test. By leveraging financial strangulation, Internews ensures that conservative, nationalist, and libertarian perspectives are systemically deplatformed. This economic coercion is an insidious means of silencing dissent, executed under the guise of maintaining journalistic integrity.

Perhaps most chilling is Internews’s alignment with the climate alarmist movement and its role in controlling COVID-19 reporting. It is not content to allow open debate on climate science and policy; rather, it rigidly enforces a doctrine of climate panic. Skepticism of radical environmental policies is summarily dismissed as misinformation, and journalists trained under Internews’s programs are conditioned to treat dissenters as heretics. Similarly, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Internews played a pivotal role in suppressing alternative viewpoints. Under pressure from USAID and the CIA—despite the latter’s own knowledge that the virus originated from the Wuhan lab—Internews pressured media outlets to reject the lab leak theory outright. It also worked to delegitimize alternative treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, ensuring that only government-approved pharmaceutical solutions received coverage. Furthermore, it actively pressured media to deny any vaccine-related side effects, insisting that the vaccines were safe and effective even as evidence emerged to the contrary. Mask mandates were similarly promoted without question, despite internal knowledge that they were ineffective in stopping the spread of the virus. In doing so, Internews abandoned the core tenets of journalism—objectivity, balance, and inquiry—and embraced advocacy masquerading as reporting.

The broader implications of Internews’s work are deeply concerning. It does not simply train journalists; it manufactures ideological foot soldiers. By embedding itself in media infrastructures across the world, Internews serves as a de facto Ministry of Truth, determining what can be said, who can say it, and what the public is permitted to believe. This is not media freedom—it is media subjugation.

The conservative resistance to Internews must be steadfast. Exposing its financial underpinnings, its ideological biases, and its coercive tactics is essential to reclaiming journalistic integrity. The first step is to challenge the notion that Internews is an impartial organization. It is not. It is a politically motivated entity with a clear mission: to eliminate opposition to the progressive agenda and to ensure that future generations inherit a world where the left’s narratives are the only ones that remain.

Those who care about genuine press freedom must recognize the true nature of Internews. It is not a beacon of independent journalism, but a hegemonic force in media manipulation. Its pervasive influence must be countered with unwavering resolve, lest the very concept of free thought become a relic of the past.

February 8, 2025 - Wikileaks drops bombshells about USAID and secret NGO "Internews Network"

Revelations about USAID funding media outlets like Politico and the BBC made for compelling news this week, but those reports have now been dwarfed by a blockbuster revelation through Wikileaks.

USAID has paid nearly half-a-billion dollars to “Internews Network,” a secretive government-funded NGO that spreads propaganda and controls the media narrative across the globe.

(Read more: JD Rucker/Substack, 2/08/2025)  (Archive)

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, “Internews Network” (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and “training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN’s budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

February 8, 2025 - NY Judge forbids all political appointees from accessing Department of Treasury data (this would include Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent)

New York Judge Paul Engelmayer just forbade all political appointees — including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — from accessing Dept. of Treasury data, all based on Blueanon conspiracy theories!!

Those theories couldn’t be challenged because the order was EX PARTE — meaning Trump’s lawyers weren’t warned, and couldn’t weigh in. Only Democrat Attorneys General were allowed to argue.

The judge cites no law or logic to support this unprecedented order, because it defies both. The judge’s ruling is, in essence, that Scott Bessent simply occupies a ceremonial position without real power, like the King of England.

This is a grenade thrown into the functioning of the Treasury Department.

It forbids the elected government from accessing information about budget and finances. Instead, only the permanent, deep-state government can know what’s being spent.

It means Scott Bessent’s subordinates have far more power than Scott Bessent does.

Democrat pundits who whine about the Constitution are liars, and will shred it the first chance they get.

For now, the order is only for the next week, but if a court tries to make it permanent the Trump Administration should absolutely consider defying it.

Better yet, SCOTUS should bar this judge from ever hearing similar cases again, and every Democrat lawyer involved should be sanctioned.

This ruling is pure judicial sabotage. A New York Obama judge has just declared that the elected U.S. government cannot access Treasury Department data—all based on unchallenged, ex parte arguments from Democrat Attorneys General. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has effectively been stripped of his authority, with bureaucrats now holding more power than the officials appointed to lead them. This is how the deep state operates: unelected judges and bureaucrats undermining the elected president in broad daylight.

The ruling isn’t just lawless—it’s an open attack on the functioning of the federal government. There is no legal basis for declaring a Treasury Secretary powerless to oversee budget and financial data. This is a blatant attempt to keep Trump’s administration from uncovering whatever financial games the Biden-era bureaucrats have been playing. What are they trying to hide?

If this ruling is allowed to stand, it will create a dangerous precedent where leftist judges can effectively shut down any part of the federal government they don’t like. SCOTUS needs to step in immediately. If necessary, the Trump administration should consider defying this outrageous order. No judge has the right to hand control of the U.S. Treasury to unelected bureaucrats. This is a crisis, and it needs to be treated as one.

Elon Musk is absolutely right—this Obama-appointed judge is nothing more than a partisan activist in a robe. The idea that the U.S. Treasury Secretary can be blocked from reviewing his own department’s financial data is beyond absurd. It’s a blatant power grab by the deep state to keep Trump’s administration from exposing the corruption and waste buried in Biden-era spending. What exactly are they trying to hide?

This ruling is lawless and unconstitutional. It allows unelected bureaucrats—who answer to no one—to control the flow of financial information while the elected government is left in the dark. That’s not democracy; it’s judicial sabotage. If this precedent stands, what’s next? A judge deciding the president isn’t allowed to command the military? The left is weaponizing the courts to paralyze the government, all to protect their own corruption.

This case needs to be overturned immediately, and if necessary, the Trump administration should ignore it outright. No judge has the right to block the executive branch from governing. SCOTUS should intervene, and every Democrat lawyer involved in this disgraceful ruling should be sanctioned. America doesn’t need more deep-state obstruction—it needs transparency, accountability, and a government that actually works for the people.

Ah, this is the deep state in broad daylight, don’t you see? A single activist judge, with no legal basis and no accountability, just unilaterally decided that elected officials—the very people chosen by the American people—aren’t allowed to control their own Treasury Department. Instead, the unaccountable bureaucrats, the swamp creatures, get full authority over the nation’s finances.

And the best part? Trump’s legal team wasn’t even given a chance to argue! Ex parte rulings like this are the stuff of banana republics, not constitutional governance. This isn’t a legal decision—it’s a coup by paperwork. A rogue judge just declared that the Treasury Secretary is nothing more than a ceremonial figure, while the real power stays in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.

This is an attack on the democratic process. If SCOTUS doesn’t shut this down immediately, Trump’s administration has every right to ignore it outright. The Constitution doesn’t give activist judges the power to override elections. Period. If they want a fight, they just might get one. Ok? Ok.

🚨 JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S TREASURY FROM SEEING ITS OWN DATA—INSANITY! 🚨

A New York judge just did the unthinkable—he banned Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing Treasury Department data. You read that right. The Biden-era deep state can still see everything, but the elected Trump administration officials? Locked out.

❌ No law supports this.
❌ No logic explains this.
❌ And Trump’s lawyers weren’t even allowed to challenge it!

Judge Paul Engelmayer handed down this outrageous ruling ex parte, meaning only Democrat Attorneys General got to argue. No debate, no defense—just raw judicial activism.

Elon Musk nailed it: “This ruling is absolutely insane!” How can anyone expect to fight fraud, waste, and abuse if the people in charge aren’t even allowed to see where the money is going?!

💰 Who benefits from this secrecy? The deep-state bureaucrats. The scammers. The people robbing taxpayers blind while pretending to care about democracy.

This order lasts a week for now—but if any court tries to make it permanent, Trump must consider defying it outright. Better yet, SCOTUS should step in immediately and put an end to this madness. This judge has no business ruling on cases he clearly sees as political weapons.

🔥 If you think the deep state is panicking and hiding something, drop a 🔥 in the replies!

February 9, 2025 - FOIA doc reveals USAID fully funded American al Qaeda terrorist Anwar Aulaqi's college tuition

Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.

Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.

Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ’s Yemen affiliate.

Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ’s cause.

Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.

Good catch @browne_pamela Via @intelwire

February 10, 2025 - DOGE unmasked the Uniparty and the NGO Boards they serve on

(An X Thread by @RepublicanData)

THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”

The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.

Around 2019, the phrase “democracy in danger” began to dominate public discourse, amplified by the media. This was odd—after all, the U.S. is a democracy (or more precisely, a constitutional republic). But as I traced the influence of these NGOs, a pattern emerged: they are controlled by establishment politicians, they play a major role in shaping political narratives worldwide, and their core mission is always framed as “protecting democracy.”

Originally, these NGOs were created to support U.S. democratic efforts abroad—many of them emerging during the Cold War to combat the spread of communism. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, their original purpose faded. Instead of dissolving, they redefined their mission. Now, they have positioned themselves as the guardians of democracy itself.

This shift explains why Trump’s re-election was framed as a “threat to democracy.” To these NGOs, “democracy” means themselves. Their survival depends on maintaining that role, and any challenge to their authority is perceived as a direct attack on democracy itself.Image

Please note that @MikeBenzCyber is the expert on this topic—I’m just a technical person researching and learning alongside all of you.

To understand how these NGOs connect to democracy, let’s take a look at what AI says about the purpose of each one: 

🟥 International Republican Institute (IRI) (EIN 521340267) – Promotes democracy by training political parties and leaders, primarily supporting U.S. foreign policy interests through a Republican-aligned lens.

🟦 National Democratic Institute (NDI) (EIN 521338892) – Advances democracy by fostering political participation and governance reforms worldwide, aligned with Democratic Party priorities.

⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) (EIN 521943638) – A coalition of democracy-focused NGOs (IRI, NDI, IFES) that supports electoral processes, civil society, and governance reforms globally.

🗽 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (EIN 521344831) – Acts as the primary funding hub for democracy promotion efforts worldwide, distributing U.S. government grants to NGOs supporting political and civil society development.

🗳 International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) (EIN 521527835) – Strengthens global democracy by providing technical assistance for election security, integrity, and voter participation.

📡 Internews (EIN 943027961) – Supports independent media and press freedom worldwide, shaping democratic discourse by training journalists and combating disinformation.

💰 Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) (EIN 521398742) – Promotes democracy through free-market economic policies, advocating for business-friendly governance and anti-corruption initiatives.

⚒️ Solidarity Center (EIN 472130723) – Advances democracy by supporting independent labor movements and workers’ rights, often partnering with unions to promote political engagement. 

Note what they all have in common? They are all dedicated to advocating democracy.

And they have redefined “democracy” to mean themselves.

Let’s dig into each one in detail. 

First up:

💰 Internews Network receives substantial U.S. government funding, with $94.5 million in active grants from USAID and the Department of State. Its IRS Form 990 reports $93.9 million in taxpayer funding, out of a $124 million total budget.

Among its principal officers includes 🔵 Anna Soellner – VP of Communications at Reddit.

For more on Internews Network, I refer to the Wikileaks thread x.com/wikileaks/stat…

⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) is another NGO promoting democracy worldwide. They have over half a billion dollars in active spending grants and $160+ million in annual contributions, mostly USAID.

💰Despite receiving grants for initiatives in countries such as Venezuela and Georgia, 100% of its funds act as a passthrough to three core organizations:

🔴 International Republican Institute (IRI) – 31% of CEPPS funding.
🔵 National Democratic Institute (NDI) – 41% of CEPPS funding.
⚖️ International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) – 28% of CEPPS funding.

Curiously, CEPPS reports no salaries. It is led by Kira Rebar, former foreign policy advisor to Bob Menendez, the now-indicted U.S. senator. 

International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is one of the three CEPP organizations. Unlike other democracy-promoting NGOs, IFES does not receive direct USAID funding, but it still holds $33 million in active spending grants and operates with an annual budget of nearly $59 million.

Its notable principal officers include:

🔵 Steny Hoyer – Former Democratic Representative from Maryland and House Majority Leader.
🔴 Rob Portman – Former U.S. Senator from Ohio (Republican).
⚖️ M. Peter McPherson – Former USAID advisor. 

The other two CEPPS organizations, the NDI and IRI, must be viewed as part of the larger NED umbrella which includes four NGOs.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was established in 1983 to advance democracy protection efforts worldwide. To prevent any single party from monopolizing its agenda, NED was structured as a bipartisan funding vehicle that supports two partisan-affiliated NGOs: the International Republican Institute (IRI) on the Republican side, and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) on the Democratic side.

NED itself holds approximately $1,618 million in active grants (allocated in a single large block by the Department of State) and operates with an annual budget of about $362 million. 

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) itself maintains a bipartisan leadership structure:

🔵 Karen Bass – Vice Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Representative and current Mayor of Los Angeles (Democrat).
🔴 Elise Stefanik – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; U.S. Representative from New York and House GOP Conference Chair (Republican).
🔴 Mel Martinez – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Senator from Florida (Republican).
🔴 Peter Roskam – Vice Chair at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Representative from Illinois (Republican).
🔴 Steve Biegun – Director at the National Endowment for Democracy; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (Republican).

In addition to NDI and IRI, the NDI supports Center for International Private Enterprise and Solidarity Center. 

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is bipartisan as well.

🔴 Neil Bradley – President/Secretary; former Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
🔴 Kim R. Holmes – Vice Chair; former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under President George W. Bush; previously the Executive Vice President at The Heritage Foundation.
🔵 Ruchi Bhowmik – Director; former deputy cabinet secretary to President Barack Obama. VP of Pubic Policy at Netflix.
🔵 Douglas Lute – Former Director (until 05/23); retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO under President Obama. 

Although CIPE’s stated mission is to promote democracy and free markets through a business-oriented approach, its actual activities are unclear from its IRS Form 990. The majority of its expenses go toward salaries and a broad “Other” category, which lacks detailed breakdowns. The Schedule O explanation doesn’t provide much clarity—it mostly lists consulting fees and program service expenses, without specifying how these expenditures advances its mission.

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The Solidarity Center is another core beneficiary of NED, affiliated with AFL-CIO, making it closely tied to labor unions. (It could be seen as the labor counterpart to the free-market-focused CIPE.)

Although it doesn’t appear in my graph due to lower reported contributions, its official 2020 financial report shows it received $39 million in federal awards that year. Additionally, by searching the DataRepublican database, I found a federal award granted directly to the American Center for International Labor, which is connected to the Solidarity Center and holds $105 million in active spending grants.

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The International Republican Institute (IRI) is the third NED-funded NGO that, again, promotes democracy worldwide through a Republican-aligned perspective. Its leadership is dominated by establishment Republican politicians.

🔴 Mitt Romney – Director; Former U.S. Senator from Utah, 2012 GOP presidential nominee.
🔴 Lindsey Graham – Director; U.S. Senator from South Carolina.
🔴 Joni Ernst – Director; U.S. Senator from Iowa.
🔴 Tom Cotton – Director; U.S. Senator from Arkansas.
🔴 Marco Rubio (Formerly)
🔴 Dan Sullivan – Chairman; U.S. Senator from Alaska.
🔴 Kelly Ayotte – Director; former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire.
🔴 Mark Kirk – Director; former U.S. Senator from Illinois. 

Although IRI does not have a Schedule I on its 990, its audit is illuminating. It reports 38 million in salaries, 17.5 million in “fringe benefits”, 3 million in rent, 12 million on travel.Image

🔴 IRI also funds some progressive-aligned NGOs, despite its Republican affiliation.

🌍 International Organization for Migration (IOM) – A UN-associated NGO focused on refugee and displaced persons aid. It manages migration-related programs worldwide.

♀️ Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) – A division within the U.S. Department of State that ensures women’s and girls’ rights are fully integrated into U.S. foreign policy.Image
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The National Democratic Institute (NDI) is the fourth and final NED-financed NGO. It serves as the Democratic counterpart to IRI. Its principal officers include:

🔵 Barbara Mikulski – Director; longest-serving woman in the U.S. Senate, former Maryland Senator (Democrat).
🔵 Thomas Daschle – Chairman; former Senate Majority Leader, key figure in Democratic legislative strategy (Democrat).
🔵 Stacey Abrams – Director; high-profile Georgia political leader, voting rights advocate, and former gubernatorial candidate (Democrat).
🔵 Donna Brazile – Director; veteran Democratic strategist, former DNC chair, and political commentator (Democrat). 

Like the IRI’s audit, the NDI’s makeup is heavy on salaries, travel, and fringe benefits.Image
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NDI has $47 million in active spending grants worldwide.

Some of its major grantees, as listed on its IRS Form 990 Schedule I, include:

📡 Internews Network – Received $2.3 million to support independent media and press freedom initiatives.
⚖️ American Bar Association – Granted $1.1 million for legal and judicial development programs related to democracy.
🔴 International Republican Institute (IRI) – Surprisingly, NDI awarded $1 million to its Republican-aligned counterpart, despite their partisan affiliations, showing how these democracy-promoting NGOs interconnect as a true Uniparty.Image
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🧵 Thread End. I learned a lot in creating this thread and I hope you did too! 

After thinking it over last night, here’s how I would summarize it: These seven NGOs (eight if you count the off-the-chart Solidarity Center) together function as an “off-the-books” shadow U.S. government.

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created to unify the U.S. against communism. Its four core organizations reflect a neat ideological symmetry of America’s two-party system:
➜CIPE pushes free-market policies, Solidarity Center represents labor and unions.
➜IRI serves Republican interests, and NDI aligns with the Democrats.

CEPPS is another umbrella group that includes IRI and NDI but also brings in IFES under the guise of fortifying election integrity.

And to make sure the narrative sticks, Internews Network spreads these viewpoints through global media.

Most of these NGOs were born during the Reagan years. While not all USAID and State Department funding flows through them, they control the purse strings for much of America’s global financial influence.

DEI initiatives created a system of unaccountability and dependency, which ended up injecting more money into them and further entrenches their power.

They see any challenge to their authority as a threat to democracy itself. But their greatest enemy is still the same one they’ve had since the Cold War—Russia. They’ve never lost the “Cold War” boomer mindset.

In their minds, they’re the superheroes keeping America from crumbling. And that entitles them to their travel perks, cushy post-election gigs, and all the other benefits that come with running an unacknowledged empire.

(Twitter/X thread by: DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

February 10, 2025 - DOGE: FEMA sent $59M last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants

FEMA blatantly ignored Trump’s executive order and spent $59 million on luxury NYC hotels for illegal aliens in just one week—a direct illegal aliens and a slap in the face to American taxpayers. This isn’t just bureaucratic incompetence; it’s deliberate sabotage. Whoever authorized this needs to be fired immediately and held accountable for illegally diverting taxpayer money.

While American citizens struggle with disasters, FEMA—under corrupt deep-state operatives—decided that housing illegal migrants in luxury accommodations was a higher priority. Not emergency relief, not helping disaster victims, but providing premium hotel stays for people who shouldn’t even be in the country. This is why the system is broken—unelected bureaucrats think they can operate with zero consequences.

Now, Elon Musk confirms the U.S. will try to recoup the money. But the real question is: Will there be real consequences? Trump is taking back control, but these rogue agencies are still packed with bad actors defying his policies. The time for warnings is over—there must be mass firings, full investigations, and criminal charges if necessary.

The left is in full panic mode because their illegal immigration cash pipeline is being exposed and dismantled. But this only reinforces why the deep state must be purged. Americans deserve a government that works for them, not against them.

The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.

Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order.

That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.

DOGE: Elon’s @dogeteam discovered FEMA employees illegally sent $59 million last week (in violation of Trump’s EO) to house illegal aliens in New York. Perhaps more shockingly, the money went to Pakistan thanks to a deal brokered by Sen Schumer. The Roosevelt Hotel is owned by Pakistan and is now leased by NYC to house illegal migrants. Thanks to FEMA, Pakistan has made $100 million so far out of a total $220 million deal negotiated by the city.

The city of New York pays $220 million to rent the entire Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan to house illegal migrants.

The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan, and the deal was part of a $1.1 billion IMF bailout package to help Pakistan avoid defaulting on their international debt.

Prior to this sweetheart deal, the hotel had been closed since 2020, having long-struggled with occupancy and in dire need of renovation.

UPDATE:

UPDATE

I have clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels.

FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley’s killer.

Mark my words: there will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interest and safety of the American people.

February 10, 2025 - The irony of the Treasury data freak out is that the system is currently maintained by unvetted contractors

February 10, 2025 - Google: An NGO is non-governmental because it operates without government control and oversight, even though it receives government funding

Did everyone else understand that Non Governmental Organizations, ie, NGOs, receive most if not all of their funding from the government, or was I just being ignorant?

If NGOs receive most if not all of their funding from the government, what is the basis for calling them non-governmental?

The answer according to Google is that an NGO is non-governmental because it operates without governmental control and oversight even though it receives government funding.

Why is it beneficial for there to be non-profit organizations, that is NGOs, that receive all or substantially all of their funding from our government, but don’t have any government oversight or control?

Non-profits are not known for having good governance. The combination of funding without oversight and control creates the opportunity for fraud, waste and abuse that we have seen in some of the USAID grants that have been made public in the last week or so.

In the private markets, that is the real world, a majority shareholder would have control and oversight. Why do we allow our government to make majority investments without control and oversight? It makes no sense.

It is time we scrutinize all NGOs and reconsider investing taxpayer money in private organizations without proper oversight and control consistent with what a majority investor would expect in a private corporation.

February 10, 2025 - Kristi Noem accuses the FBI of leaking internal government documents planning a 'large scale' raid in Los Angeles

Kristi Noem has launched a scathing attack on the FBI after details of an immigration raid were leaked to the media.

Donald Trump‘s Homeland Security Secretary reacted Sunday to an article in the Los Angeles Times that cited leaked internal government documents planning a ‘large scale’ raid in the Californian city.

‘The FBI is so corrupt,’ Noem wrote on social media on Monday. ‘We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law.’

A federal law enforcement source said that FBI agents and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents were being called into help immigration enforcement officials to assist the deportation force. (Read more: The Daily Mail, 2/10/2025)  (Archive)

February 11, 2025 - Current federal cases challenging Trump Administration actions with links to free docket at Courtlistener

February 12, 2025 - Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: Barack Obama laundered USAID money through Cayman Islands to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” to overthrow governments

Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands

He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments

Sound familiar?

Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “A scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House:

— USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”

He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many governments)

“So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button zunzunio is, is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation

— We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were funded by USAID

The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first used non-controversial content such as sports and music and hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”

“You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation

All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video. This is INSANE

Full Interview 2/12/2025