So Politico Was Funded by USAID You Say?

It is no wonder some of the most vile elected Democrats are going ape sh*t banana crazy in front of the mainstream news media cameras and microphones. What Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have done may see some of them going to prison for fraud and larceny! It seems as though taxpayer USAID funds were going to fund the leftwing “news” website Politico!

Because Elon Musk froze all USAID funding, at least temporarily, to determine how American taxpayer’s money is being spent, Politico employees (apparently) are missing a paycheck. Politico is a left leaning (Never Trump) news source.

Employees were sent this memo:

“Dear Team,

Goli and I want to address this morning’s payroll issue directly. Due to what we believe to be a technical error, employees did not receive their paychecks as scheduled. We understand the urgency of this matter and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

Our team is working diligently with our systems vendors and the bank to identify the root cause and implement a solution as quickly as possible. We will keep you updated as we learn more and work to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. If you have any immediate concerns, please feel free to reach out directly.”

It turns Politico might not be the only ones with their hands in the taxpayer cookie jar either! The Associated Press (AP) may have received at least $19.5m in government contracts, mostly from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for Global Media. In just the past few years, AP has pocketed over $619,000 from the Federal government, 87% of it straight from the State Department.

There have been other reports that news networks such as NBC also have received taxpayer money from USAID.

“US Gov EXPOSED Funding Corporate Press In MAJOR SCANDAL, USAID Staff FORCED OUT | Timcast LIVE”

The popular podcaster Tim Pool made a funny prediction when Elon Musk shuttered USAID when he posted on social media, “It would be funny if after USAID is shuttered tons of news outlets just go belly up.”

It turns out Pool may have, once again, been right.

Another popular podcaster by the name of Liz Wheeler has been breaking this story as well as follows.

It appears many of these podcasters are making use of a website https://www.usaspending.gov/. This website helps discern how our government is spending our taxpayer dollars. Tim Pool actually offers a shot lesson on how to use this website during his latest podcast above.

Pool and Wheeler speculate the way USAID funneled money to left leaning “news” websites such as Politico has been by way of paying them for “elite” subscriptions. Pool makes note that his podcast has a $1,000 a month member subscription option but has no subscribers to that high end one of six options.

CONCLUSION:

Conservative patriots such as Tim Pool, Liz Wheeler and many others such as those of us at The Thinking Conservative have not received any government funding from the Democrats and their left leaning political propaganda machine. Matter of fact, folks like us would not even take it if it was offered.

Think about it, when have any of these supposed “news” organizations such as Politico, AP, or NBC ever had anything good to say about President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement? The answer is, never! And now we know why.

Because these people are so out of touch with the American public, they have had to rely on a new form of government welfare just to keep their doors open for business and this is disgusting!

This is a breaking story so expect things will change rapidly. If you do not see this as headline news on the evening news cycle this evening, you know they are most probably on the take as well.

And if you want to know how serious this news is, there have been calls for the deaths of Elon Musk and his six young genius savant software engineers of DOGE who Musk reports have been working up to 120 hours per week enthralled with their revelations of what USAID has really been up to.

To be honest, USAID has been less about feeding the hungry of the world than the fat cats of the Democratic Party.

The death threats against DOGE and Musk are now being taken up by President Trump’s newly minted DOJ and FBI. Expect arrests soon.

And for the record, Jared has already been banned from X, formerly Twitter, and is most probably packing his bags to run away right now. 

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