Tea at Trianon: USAID ‘Drove the Russian Collusion Hoax’

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

Monday, February 17, 2025

USAID ‘Drove the Russian Collusion Hoax’

From Sara Carter:

An incredibly thorough and detailed report released by Public reveals that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was directly involved in the Russian hoax and 2019 attempts to impeach then-President Donald Trump. The connection was done through subsidizing the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
Townhall reports that OCCRP “pushed the Trump-Russian bank/money laundering myth.” The group “is supposed to be independent but was anything but” as USAID “approved its staff hires and action plan.” Additionally, OCCRP was “cited numerous times in a CIA whistleblower’s complaint that launched the Ukraine quid pro quo circus” adds Townhall.

According to Public, “OCCRP describes itself as a cost-effective arm of the US government’s anti-corruption efforts, writing that ‘our stories have helped return more than $11 billion to public coffers through seizures and fines’ and that ‘OCCRP has brought in at least ten times more money to the U.S. government than it has received in grants.” (Read more.)