Both USAID And The CIA Were Behind The Impeachment Of Trump in 2019

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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 theย 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.

Reporting by Drop Site News last yearย revealedย 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 whistleblowerย complaint citedย a longย report by OCCRPย four times.

The OCCRP report alleged that two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were โ€œkey hidden actors behind a planโ€ 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 Democratsโ€™ 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 2024ย documentaryย that German television broadcaster NDR made about OCCRPโ€™s dependence on the US government, a USAID official confirmed that USAID approves OCCRPโ€™s โ€œannual work planโ€ and approves new hires of โ€œkey personnel.โ€ NDR initiated and carried out the investigation with French investigative news organization Mediapart, Italian new group Il Fatto Quotidiano, Reporters United in Greece, andย Drop Site Newsย in the United States.

However,ย according to a Mediapartย story published the same day as the Drop Site News article, NDR censored the broadcast โ€œafter US journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcasterโ€™s journalists involved in the project.โ€

By Michael Shellenbergerย andย Alex Gutentag

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