USAID Drove Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax

USAID and the State Department appear to have created a vast network to co-opt the international press. These agencies funneled $472.6 million to Internews over the last 17 years. As of 2023, Internews operated out of 30 countries and had reached over 778 million people. The organization trained over 9,000 journalists and nearly 4,300 media outlets worldwide.

Jeanne Bourgault, Internews CEO, advocated for exclusion lists on social media to combat disinformation of disfavored views at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2024. The WEF then issued a report naming misinformation as the number one Global Risk.

Through these methods, USAID specifically, and the US deep state in general, have used taxpayer money not only for censorship, but also for propaganda, agenda setting, and information control around the world.

Narratives like the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, which once seemed to be emerging organically in response to a body of evidence, were actually the product of a sophisticated and coordinated campaign to shape public opinion through an appearance of media consensus. This consensus was artificially constructed by a US government-created independent media apparatus, with taxpayer-funded legal protection, to promote the deep state s interests abroad under the guise of professional journalism.

This weaponization of the press was yet another tool of foreign intervention and regime change that, to combat the rise of populism, was turned against the American people in general, and Trump in particular. The agencies that taxpayers fund to ensure our security began treating the domestic population as an enemy force, and repurposed the national defense and foreign policy toolkit for illegal censorship and influence operations at home.

via www.public.news

Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger