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You should have lived long enough to know a person can be a good father to his kids and still murder innocent people. Both things can be true. If a person doing these good things while made $30 million in 3 years on $200k salary, I can reasonably assume some serious corruption is going on.

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Keep believing those baseless conspiracy theories. [0]

>"U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, ..."

>"Nichols noted that despite Trump’s claim of massive “corruption and fraud” in the agency, government lawyers had no support for that argument in court."

Meanwhile, the reality of the situation is simply tragic. [1]

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/07/judge-blocks-trump-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/donald-trump-u...

"USAid money is spent supporting independent journalism" is an oxymoron. When a state sponsors something journalistic, it's called propaganda... not independent. Not saying they are not heroic doing this work, this money shouldn't come from US. If they can't keep the effort alive organically, they should get help from donations. These US congressmen for God sake need to keep their hands in their own wallets, not taxpayers.

Not sure what's your point on the Politico article. It is tragic that disrupt a lot of people's lives. Like I said, it doesn't mean there's no corruption, only good is happening. Both things can be true at the same time. This thing can be tragic, Congress might get their shit together - hopefully.

>If they can't keep the effort alive organically, they should get help from donations.

Harsh words for people documenting genocide.

>Not sure what's your point on the Politico article.

It was a supporting citation for the federal judge pointing out that no evidence was presented of the supposed corruption.

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