Tea at Trianon: USAID and CIA Secretly Worked to Impeach Trump

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, February 9, 2025

USAID and CIA Secretly Worked to Impeach Trump

From The Vigilant Fox:

A bombshell report from journalist Michael Shellenberger reveals that Trump’s impeachment wasn’t just a Democrat-led political hit job—it was an intelligence operation.
Shellenberger blew the lid off the scandal on Jesse Watters Primetime, exposing how the deep state worked behind the scenes to take down Trump.
Back in 2019, Democrats rushed to impeach Trump over a whistleblower complaint claiming he pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. But there was one huge problem: the so-called whistleblower wasn’t even a direct witness.
“Many people may not remember that it was a CIA analyst who was left over from the Obama White House who wrote the memo that led to the impeachment,” Shellenberger explained. “It was all based on hearsay. The person had not actually been in the room with Trump.”
And it gets worse. That memo relied on a report from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)—a group that pretends to be independent but is actually funded by USAID and controlled by the U.S. government.
“Tens of millions of dollars had gone into this group called OCCRP,” Shellenberger said. “But it was basically created as an extension of the State Department and then of USAID.” (Read more.)

From Amuse on X:

One must ask: if USAID is so committed to media independence, why is it absent in places like Cuba or Venezuela, where journalists face real threats from authoritarian regimes? The answer is evident—USAID’s media projects are not about fostering independent journalism but about engineering regime change against governments that resist Washington’s progressive-globalist agenda.
This state-sponsored journalism has profound consequences. Stories unfavorable to the Left are buried, and investigations into Democratic corruption are dismissed as "conspiracy theories." A glaring example was the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election—a story later confirmed as legitimate but dismissed at the time as "Russian disinformation" by an obedient press. The result? Public discourse is distorted, elections are influenced, and dissenting voices struggle to be heard.
The Founders understood the necessity of an independent press. A media establishment that takes its cues—and its funding—from the government is not a free press at all. It is an instrument of state power. The only solution is a complete separation between journalism and government. No taxpayer dollars should fund newsrooms. Media organizations must compete in the open marketplace of ideas, where credibility, not political favoritism, determines survival. (Read more.)

Also from Amuse on X;

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. (Read more.)