(JOURNALISTIC) MADNESS: Commander fingers USAID!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2025

They tried to rig the election: As of yesterday afternoon, the accusation had spread.

A termite on a "cable news" program advanced the claim last Friday night—and others may have believed it. Yesterday afternoon, as Prime Minister Modi looked on, the following Q-and-A occurred right there in the Oval Office.

For the record, the question seems to have come from a member of the Indian press. For Mediaite's report, and for videotape, you can just click here:

Trump Entertains Insane Question About USAID Rigging the 2020 Election

A fawning “reporter” asked President Donald Trump if the U.S. Agency for International Development helped rig the 2020 election against him.

The bizarre question came during a joint appearance by Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office on Thursday.

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REPORTER: President Trump, first of all, congratulations for the fantastic 24 days of your presidency. Historic and unprecedented decisions that you’ve made, transformational reforms—

TRUMP: I like her. I like her.

[LAUGHTER]

REPORTER: I’m particularly impressed by the exposé on USAID. And I would like you to share with us if you think USAID had a role in election interference in the U.S. in 2020 and in the elections in 2024.

TRUMP: So, it could’ve had a role. There were a lot of bad things that happened in 2020. I think bad things happened in 2024, but it, was too big. We won by a tremendous margin. And we want every swing state. 

We won the popular vote by millions of votes, so it was too big to rig. But yeah, I think they probably tried.

Back in grade school, "Teacher" would always say that there are no insane questions. There are only insane answers, she would always say.

Yesterday, right in the Oval, the commander offered the latest of his many answers—and some of what he said was actually accurate! For example, he did win the election "by millions of votes." 

(The "millions" in question were two.)

Did that constitute "a tremendous margin?" Nationwide, he won the popular vote by a bit less than 1.5 points. Nationwide, he won slightly less than half the popular vote.

Did that constitute "a tremendous margin?" Let's set such matters aside. The possible craziness entered the scene when the commander made a new claim—when he seemed to say that he thinks that USAID probably tried to rig last November's election.

Question: 

Did anyone ask this thoughtful man to offer evidence in support of this new statement?

Stating the obvious, no one asked for any such evidence, and no one ever will. What's left of our conquered nation's discourse—such as that discourse ever was—no longer even pretends to run on such outmoded fuel.  

At this site, we were struck by the way the commander's claim seemed to echo the peculiar claim made last Friday night on an ersatz "cable news" program.

That program has nothing to do with "news" as that term has long been understood. 

Instead, the program practices a form of "journalistic madness." It does so every night, in prime time, on this conquered nation's most watched "cable news" channel.

For unstated reasons, everyone gives this program a pass, including the gang at Mediaite. Under apparent rules of the game, you can mess with CNN's (embarrassing) 10 p.m. show, but you have to ignore the bizarre behavior seen on the Fox News Channel.

At any rate, the peculiar fellow who hosts the show had authored a somewhat similar claim about USAID:

As we've noted, he had accused USAID of staging "a color revolution" (whatever that might mean). He had seemed to accuse USAID of trying to topple the MAGA revolution, just as it had allegedly worked to topple foreign governments.

Yesterday, the commander took this one step further. He said he thinks that USAID tried to rig last November's election.

His statement was unsupported by evidence. Such are the new rules of the game.

As for the "cable news" host, let's play it again! Once again, here's the heart of what this possible nutcase said:

GUTFELD (2/7/25): DOGE has exposed a pile of programs funded by USAID to foster gender and trans propaganda in foreign countries—countries where such things don't seem to benefit stability. Because nothing will bring a Muslim country together like drag queens reading the Koran to kids.

But that's the point. You have to destroy the world to build a new one where men can watch girls pee in locker rooms. 

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As we learn that USAID was creating instability abroad, we see these same dirty tricks coming home. Because once you find yourself with a populist president who wasn't the elite choice, instability must be created artificially. 

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So imagine if we looked at America as a foreign country when Trump won. USAID did! You had a populist president, not an establishment puppet. What followed? Organized and immediate protests—race gender, climate, the three horsemen of funded, organized dissent. 

It was a color revolution, funded by people who pay taxes. Suddenly, you had trained agitators in the street with fresh signs and robust crowds and fueling the media that pushes incendiary hoaxes.

Add to that a crusade against so-called misinformation to empower censorship. Sound familiar? Sounds like everything USAID did in other countries.

Now maybe we didn't mind USAID before. Sure, they toppled governments overseas, but that wouldn't happen here. Now, by shining a light on what they and our government is doing, we find that they did try to destroy a populist movement for being a challenge to their power.

In Tuesday's report, we posted the full transcript of this fellow's "monologue." You can watch his full presentation simply by clicking here.

That said, his basic assertion seemed to be fairly clear. He seemed to be saying this:

USAID had already been working to topple governments overseas. But when Donald J. Trump took office in 2017, USAID began working to do the same there here.

"It was a color revolution," the fellow said, without explaining the meaning of the term. Here at home, USAID tried to destroy the "populist [MAGA] movement for being a challenge to their power." 

So the gentleman said. And why had USAID done such a thing? Simple:

 You have to destroy the world to build a new one where men can watch girls pee in locker rooms.

According to this program's host, that's what USAID was trying to do during Trump's first term. These claims were authored, in prime time, on this defeated nation's most-watched "cable news" channel. 

No evidence was offered in support of these claims. Yesterday, right in the Oval, the restored commander took things one step further:

USAID had "probably" tried to rig last November's election! Or so the commander said he currently thinks.

We've decided to focus today on what the commander said. We'll also focus on what won't be said—on the fact that the commander's latest remarkable statement will pass without comment, except within the Red American realms where such claims are repeated and embellished by an assortment of types.

The commander makes so many unsupported claims that Blue America has largely abandoned the task of taking note of his statements. Judged by traditional norms, this is a form of journalistic surrender. 

It's akin to a form of insanity. It's journalistic madness.

Yesterday, the termite's unsupported claims seemed to resurface in an exchange between an ascot-kissing journalist and the restored commander. 

The termite seemed to have said that USAID had somehow been responsible for the resistance to the commander during his first term in the Oval. Now, the commander was saying that USAID had (probably) tried to rig last year's election.

In fairness, almost everything is possible! On the other hand, most insane claims are untrue. 

By journalistic tradition, a powerful fellow like the commander should be required to offer evidence in support of claims of this type. The same expectation once existed for hosts of TV "news" programs.

Such practices are now dead. As you see these unchallenged claims spread, you're seeing the walls of our own sacred Troy being overrun. 

Very few members of Blue America's elites seem to be able to see what has already taken place: They're unable to see that the "night assault" is underway—that it has (probably) already succeeded.

The termite and the commander are spreading a new Bible all through a conquered land. Last Friday night, four "bobbleheads"—we'll use Thomas Friedman's term—were sitting on the Fox News Channel set, prepared to offer the world a bit of comic relief

They were expected to create the sense that a "discussion" was taking place. Yesterday, we said their names. Today, we'll say them again:

Gutfeld! panelists—Friday, 2/7/25
Todd Piro: Co-host, Fox & Friends First
Dagen McDowell: Co-host, The Big Money Show
Rob Long: Tinseltown writer and producer
Kat Timpf: Regular panelist, Gutfeld! 

These bobbleheads were charged with the task of disguising the night assault.

We're trying to tell you what has occurred within our conquered nation. We'll guess that there may be no turning back, as with the conquest of Troy.

USAID tried to rig the election! So the commander has said!

Tomorrow: Histrionically, McDowell stifles a bomb

Next week: The sociopathy rules