If This Is True

I don’t think I’ve ever read an article at The Daily Wire before let alone linked to one. But if this piece there by Luke Rosiak on the abuses revealed by going through the books of the African Development Foundation unit of the USAID is even approximately accurate it’s not merely an outrage and a scandal but a crime and calls the probity of the entire federal government into question. Here’s a snippet:

By law, the agency is only allowed to give grants to Africa-based groups. But to keep more of that money for its own employees and officials’ friends, while concealing how much money actually went to overhead, it would require Africans to send money back to the United States at its direction, employees said.

Until shortly before DOGE gained access to the building with the assistance of U.S. Marshals, the agency was led by CEO Travis Adkins, who arrived in 2021 after a stint at USAID as a Joe Biden political appointee. An assistant to Adkins said that after she asked why her paycheck was lower than agreed upon, Adkins informed her that the remainder would be coming from an overseas account.

I have been calling out official corruption at the federal, state, and local level for a long time. That’s why I think, for example, that even if Mr. Trump’s solicitation of a new 747 from Qatar to be used as Air Force One be legal and necessary it is certainly unseemly and provides the impression of corruption. Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

It also calls into question Democrats’ full-throated defense of the shuttering of USAID. It’s no accident that the anti-insider trading bill making its way through Congress is called “the PELOSI Act”.