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thing early in her career where she had some kind of USAID connection or in Russia. And he said possibly Taylor Swift. There's no evidence that Taylor Swift was connected to any of this, but there is a video of somebody in the intelligence community suggesting that she would be the type of person that they would want to influence. There's no evidence that they have. So you probably heard that the…

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o say something like, no, no, no, we were supposed to guard against it. So we were working against large-scale social deception. It's just listed that way on the invoice. So now we're against large-scale deception. We're trying to end it. You think that's possible? You know, it wouldn't be too weird if something on an invoice was ambiguous, but it would really be weird to me if they put in direct words which are on the invoice: large-scale social deception.

I'm going to put a pin in that one and wait for the other side of the story. But it's what it looks like on the surface.

Well, Trump is calling out Politico and the New York Times for accepting some millions of dollars, I guess each, from USAID. And Trump asked what's that for? Like why is the government paying you? Are they paying you to do fake news? Are they paying you to get good stories about themselves? And he wants to claw it back.

So again, we don't know why these entities were receiving money, but it all looks sketchy. So I do like that Trump is going to treat it like it's sketchy and, you know, go after it. I feel like Trump can sniff out corruption and fraud faster than the average person because he's really good at knowing what looks sketchy, and he can just recognize it anywhere. So he's probably seeing some there.

Now according to this, it's

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incredible. So Lee Zeldin did a video in which he's claiming that they've discovered a staggering 20 billion that the Biden regime, they call it, laundered to NGOs. So what it sounds like is there was a video, I think it was Project Veritas, had an undercover video in which the Democrats and the EPA were saying, oh yeah, we're throwing the gold bars off the Titanic. What they meant was we're tryin…

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