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4:32Now PlayingThe Trump administration's embarrassing requests to make presentations for officials to cater to a child-level of understanding gets exposed by whistleblower's new book. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Trump officials thought USAID ‘just did abortions’ before gutting agency, new book claims
"A team of Trump administration officials called in to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development last year told employees they had assumed it “just did abortions,” according to a whistleblower.
When President Donald Trump returned to power in January 2025, he unleashed Elon Musk’s quasi-governmental organization DOGE on USAID, considering it a prime target for his mission to eliminate excess federal spending.
Musk had baselessly called USAID a “criminal organization” and a “radical-left political psy op” while influential podcaster Joe Rogan branded it a “money-laundering operation” with “no oversight, no receipts.”"
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