What did those tentacles do? First and foremost, they extended into the taxpayers’ pockets to extract tens of billions of dollars a year, transferring those dollars to organizations and agencies favored by the transnational elite. The projects could be anything from overthrowing a government or two to putting some spending money into the pockets of the favored elites.

A grain or two of rice might be given to some starving people for appearance’s sake, but that was hardly the point. The grift and the power were.

A perfect example is the case of Rory Stewart, a former Member of Parliament in the Conservative Party, a staunch “Remainer” with a rather plummy background that included everything from the Eton to Oxford to MI6ish stuff best not spoken of to politics to academia track. His father was literally a colonial official, and Stewart styles himself an adventurer akin to the Victorians. He has taught at Yale and Harvard and hosts the most popular political podcast in the UK. He almost replaced Theresa May after she was displaced.

Stewart is big mad because USAID funds were cut, and you will be delighted that he is after you watch this.

The HORROR! His wife’s cushy nonprofit that, to be honest, pretty much exploits Indigenous artists around the world by purchasing their products for pennies and selling their wares online at outrageous prices, is losing its next installment of a million dollars because of mean old Donald Trump.

Where, oh where, will Rory get his spending money from, if not the American taxpayers? (Actually, Rory is pulling in around £70,000 a month from his podcast, so he is doing fine).

Stewart expects people to be appalled that the gravy train has been cut off, not realizing that almost nobody knew or cared about the money flowing into his pockets until he whined that it stopped.

Now that we know, we want the rest of it back. Teaching Afghan women about Dadaism is not how we expected our foreign aid money to be spent.

Sending money to Turquoise Mountain is hardly the worst thing USAID ever spent money on. I wish it were, because then I wouldn’t have to worry about the hundreds of millions we sent to Hamas, or al Qaeda, or ISIS.

But it may be the most symbolic.

USAID was the mad money for the transnational elite. It was a giant pool of cash into which they could dip their hands and extract whatever amount was needed to slake their thirst.

Want to overthrow a government? USAID can help! Want to create a Narrative™? USAID has bought and paid for journalists and a censorship arm to help with that too!

Want to start an arts and crafts company? The US taxpayer will make it happen!

One has to wonder just how many bits of USAID money have flowed through Stewart’s life? His globe-trotting, intelligence-adjacent history, political and academic career, and his foray into broadcasting all suggest that lots of opportunities were there for the taking.

I have neither the time nor the skills to dig through his income flow and history to see how many times his life has intersected with USAID generosity, but at least $10 million has flowed his direction just through Turquoise Mountain.

No wonder he is upset. Wouldn’t you be if some Bad Orange Man and Crazy Rocket Man dammed up the flow of free money into your pockets?

The wonder of it all is that so many of his listeners are as horrified as he is at Trump for doing this.

The top federal prosecutor overseeing criminal cases at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., has abruptly resigned, claiming that Trump-appointed officials insisted she investigate a government contract awarded during Joe Biden’s administration and take decisive action to freeze the recipient’s assets.

Denise Cheung, the office’s now-former criminal chief, submitted her resignation on Tuesday in a letter to interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin.

“When I started as an AUSA, I took an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, and I have executed this duty faithfully during my tenure, which has spanned through numerous Administrations,” Cheung wrote in her email obtained by far-left CNN.

“I know that all of the AUSAs in the office continue to honor their oaths on a daily basis, just as I know that you have always conducted yourself with the utmost integrity.”

Far-left The New York Times reported, citing sources close to the situation, that Cheung stepped down in protest just a day after President Trump announced his nominee for U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin.

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According to Reuters:

The top federal prosecutor who supervised criminal cases at the Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney’s office resigned on Tuesday, citing what she described as an improper demand by Trump-appointed officials to launch a criminal probe and pursue an asset freeze.

In a letter to the interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin reviewed by Reuters, the office’s criminal chief Denise Cheung wrote that President Donald Trump’s administration had ordered her to investigate a government contract awarded during Joe Biden’s administration and pursue a freeze of the recipient’s assets.

Acting US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin, a staunch defender of constitutional rights, has been outspoken about the necessity of undoing the politically motivated January 6 prosecutions pushed by the previous administration.

Cheung, who had been with the DOJ for years, reportedly opposed Martin’s efforts to reassess the use of felony obstruction charges against January 6 defendants—a charge that the Supreme Court recently overturned.

Rather than uphold justice, Cheung appears to have chosen to walk away rather than be part of an effort to rectify the government’s politically motivated prosecution of Trump supporters.