REPORT: USAID and CIA Secretly Orchestrated Trump’s Impeachment in 2019

REPORT: USAID and the CIA secretly worked to impeach Donald Trump from office in 2019

Journalist
@Shellenberger
says USAID and the CIA helped organize Trump’s impeachment by using a whistleblower complaint based on secondhand information and a government-backed media operation to justify the case against him.

The whistleblower—a CIA analyst from the Obama White House—claimed Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. But there was a problem:

“It was all based on hearsay. The person had not actually been in the room with Trump.”

Even worse, the complaint relied on a report from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)—a group funded by USAID and controlled by the U.S. government.

“Tens of millions of dollars had gone into this group called OCCRP. But it was basically created as an extension of the State Department and then of USAID.”

For years, USAID and the CIA have worked to remove foreign leaders they don’t like. But in 2019, they turned those same tactics against a sitting U.S. president.

“This is very serious—to be involved in an effort to do regime change at home,”
@shellenberger
said.