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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 12:19 AM Feb 2025

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAID Starlink Probe Cover Up

My latest: How Trump Saved Elon: The USAID Starlink Probe Cover Up www.thealtmedia.com/p/how-trump-...

Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) 2025-02-07T02:48:59.736Z


https://www.thealtmedia.com/p/how-trump-saved-elon-the-usaid-starlink?utm_campaign=post

How Trump Saved Elon: The USAID Starlink Probe Cover Up

Trump’s gutting of USAID came amid USAID IG’s investigation involving Musk’s company

ADAM PARKHOMENKO
FEB 06, 2025

Donald Trump’s dramatic and vile dismantling of USAID came as USAID’s inspector general was conducting an investigation involving Musk’s company, Starlink. In three steps, Trump’s administration killed the investigation that was sure to embarrass Elon’s company.

As a good friend once told me, there are no coincidences in politics.

Back in September, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Inspector General Paul K. Martin testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability. The name of the hearing was “Foreign Policy, Interrupted: How Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Blunt America’s Impact Abroad.”

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important historical note — that USAID helped end Apartheid

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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
2. More.........text of
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 12:25 AM
Feb 2025

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In his testimony, IG Martin announced he had launched an investigation involving Starlink satellite terminals in Ukraine. Starlink is owned by Elon Musk through his aerospace company, SpaceX.

“We are examining… USAID’s oversight of Starlink Satellite Terminals provided to the Ukrainian government… When completed, we look forward to sharing the findings of these reports with the subcommittee.”

—USAID Inspector General Paul K. Martin, Sept 26, 2024

Martin testified to the committee, “In addition to another ongoing audit on direct budget support, we are examining USAID’s Energy Security Project, USAID’s oversight of Starlink Satellite Terminals provided to the Ukrainian government, and USAID’s efforts to protect against sexual exploitation and abuse in Ukraine. When completed, we look forward to sharing the findings of these reports with the subcommittee.”

But the investigation involving Musk’s company is effectively dead, and whatever damning information the investigation would have revealed to the public about Starlink has been covered up for good.

 

IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
3. important historical note -- that USAID helped end Apartheid
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 12:41 AM
Feb 2025

An important historical note — that USAID helped end Apartheid — sheds new light on Elon’s relentless and soulless attack on USAID. During Apartheid, Black South Africans were robbed of human rights and political power. 1/2 www.thealtmedia.com/p/musks-sout...

Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) 2025-02-06T06:24:36.723Z


An important historical note — that USAID helped end Apartheid — sheds new light on Elon’s relentless and soulless attack on USAID. During Apartheid, Black South Africans were robbed of human rights and political power. 1/2

Initech

(108,772 posts)
4. It's becoming more and more evident by the day that Elon stole the election.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 12:51 AM
Feb 2025

Elon flipped Argentina, Turkey, India, and he's trying to flip Germany too. Trump, Elon, and all of the people aiding and abetting him need to be brought to justice NOW! Tomorrow may be too late!

Initech

(108,772 posts)
10. The only way this bizarre cabal is removed from power is by death or by force.
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 11:08 AM
Feb 2025

So which one do we choose?

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
5. Now this, my friends, is an example of
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 02:18 AM
Feb 2025

some very timely investigative journalism!
Thank you profusely IrishBubbaLiberal!

Well, ain't that special. Fired all the Inspector Generals
followed by going after USAID. And here's the reason why.
Has anyone in the WH press Corp asked Miss Pretty about this yet?

And then to learn that USAID put an end to Apartheid is South Africa?

Priceless!

dchill

(42,660 posts)
8. These buffoons watched ALL the Albert Broccoli James Bond movies...
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 03:31 AM
Feb 2025

...from a Bizarro World point of view. They're dedicated, dumb and utterly sociopathic. And anyone who regards Elon as a genius was home-schooled by an idiot.

Arazi

(8,887 posts)
9. I think Musk is complicit in killing Ukrainians
Fri Feb 7, 2025, 03:47 AM
Feb 2025

I think that’s why he’s been so savage in closing USAID down and trashing them (and ending their investigation).

He’s pals with Putin

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