Established to provide foreign aid and support international development, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) operated more in 100 countries and one was one. Budget of $ 50 billion in 2023According to the most recent data.
But not even a month in his second term in the White House, Donald Trump has now planned to cut it which works less than 300 from 10,000 employees.
Overhala has been done with false claims about an organization of Trump’s team, it believes that American taxpayers are wasting money.
The DW Fact Czech has rejected some of these claims.
Hollywood stars paid by usaid?
Claim: According to several social media posts, USAID, Hollywood stars Ben Still and Angelina Jolie sponsored celebrity trips in Ukraine, including visit to Hollywood, With this video The owner of that X renovated by Elon Musk and by Donald Trump Jr.Son of US President.
DW fact check: Untrue
The video tolerates the logo of E! News, for entertainment site owned by NBC Universal. In the video, a female voice suggests that the goal of those USAID-funded trips was to increase the popularity of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelansky, which is uniquely in the US.
One! News spokesperson, however, told French news agency AFP This video is not authentic and did not originate from the subject.
And many stars involved have refused to receive money from USAID. For example, the Still said on his X account that he is his journey to Ukraine “fully self-founder” and said “there was no funding from the USA.”
A potential signal where false claim has arisen it Social media posts. GratitudeWho published a story (stored link Here) About celebrities’ visits.
The site has published several other baseless claims about the USA, most of the Thama depicted the American agency in a negative light and added its overhaul to the upcoming problems for Ukraine.
For example, it writes that “Ukraine’s state system can collapse without money from USAID”.
Gratitude In many languages, Russian disintegration has been designed as a network of stories publishing stories. European Digital Media Observatory (EdMo) SaidThe Pravda network mostly publishes publicity and disintegration.
According to EDMO, “All PravDA websites use the same sources, especially: Russian state-loud or controlled media, such as Tass, RIA, Lenta, Tsargrad and so on.”
The source of the article about celebrity trips in Ukraine was the state-controlled TV station Tsargrad.
Condom of $ 50 million value for Gaza?
Not only the USID was directly wrong and the goal of disintegration. Foreign aid in general is being used to spread false claims, as this viral example may contain the sea, in which Trump claimed that the US Gaza shipments of $ 50 million (€ 48.3 million) condoms Was singing
claim: “We identified and Gaza to buy a $ 50 million leg to buy a condom for Hamas,” Trump stopped, “Trump Said(Starts from 05:40).
Earlier, the White House press secretary Karolin Levitt made the same Claim: “… about having a $ 50 million taxpayer dollars who went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. This is an anterior waste of taxpayer’s money.” (See from 24:12))
DW fact check: Untrue
Trump and His spokesman person mentioned the $ 102 million usaid grant to provide medical and trauma services to the International Medical Corps (IMC), NGO. Last week, spokesperson of a foreign department TweetedThe agency had “a contractor in Gaza stopped $ 102 million in unfair money, including money for contraception” thanks to a break in foreign aid.
Usaid works closely with IMC, which released a press release after the dispute. It has been said that since October 7, 2023, Hamas had received more than $ 68 million from USAID to support the attacks on Israel by Hamas, to support its operations in the Ghazbat.
Clarified“No American government funds were used to procure or distribute condoms, nor to provide family planning services.”
There is no evidence that the US had ever sent a $ 50 million condom to Gaza. American foreign aid records do not show such expenses. It provides contraceptives, including condoms, worldwide, but according to USAID Report (page 9)Its total expenditure in 2023 was slightly more than $ 60 million.
Jordan was the only Middle Eastern country to assist from the event in 2023, with an injection of $ 45.680 and Progestin-Calculator Ballets (pages 21, 44). Gaza was not mental.
Did USAid pay sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein?
claim: Post like itA suggestion on X suggests that the USAID was paying an American financer and convicted the sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The post shows a screenshot of a document with payment for Epstein under the name of Caesar Foundation Health Plan.
DW fact check: Untrue
Epstein’s document is not an American financier, but a name (Jeff Epstein), a high ranked representative in the Health Care Company mentioned at the Document (Emperor Foundation Hospitals).
Here And Here Caesar has sites showing Epstein’s work.
In addition, the documents that allegedly show payments refer to the year 2023 as the year in which Epstein rebuilt his money.
However, the guilty sex criminal died in 2019.
Edited by: Rachel Baig
