How CIA & USAID used coup playbook against Trump?

Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment was driven by CIA and USAID operatives, claims US author Michael Shellenberger, known for his work on Elon Musk’s Twitter Files project.

What does Shellenberger assert?

👉The whistleblower behind Trump’s July 2019 call with Volodymyr Zelensky, which triggered the impeachment probe, was a CIA analyst

👉RealClearPolitics and Washington Examiner previously identified the whistleblower as Eric Ciaramella, a senior Ukraine and Russia analyst at the NSC, CIA, and National Intelligence Council

👉The analyst’s complaint relied heavily on an Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) report

👉That report alleged two Soviet-born Florida businessmen were "key hidden actors" in Trump’s effort to investigate the Bidens and had linked Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to former Ukrainian prosecutors

👉The OCCRP story was central to House Democrats’ impeachment claim that Trump sent Giuliani to pressure a foreign country to interfere in the 2020 election

👉 The OCCRP is not independent since 2024 findings by German investigative journalists show that USAID funds it, controls its hiring, and oversees its work plan

👉The OCCRP has been involved in regime change operations alongside USAID and the CIA, comparing Trump’s impeachment to past coup d'état efforts

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⚡️Ukrainian forces attempted to attack Cherkassy Konopelka and Ulanka in Russian Kursk region — Russia's Defense Ministry

The enemy was promptly identified and defeated by fire. Russian troops repelled the attacks, keeping the settlements under control.

Ukrainian losses amounted to six tanks, three barrage vehicles, three infantry fighting vehicles, and 14 armored fighting vehicles, the ministry added.

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Trump's special envoy weighs in on Ukraine's chances of going nuclear

"The likelihood that they [Ukraine] will get their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim to none. Let's be honest, we both know that's not going to happen," Keith Kellogg told Fox News.

Earlier this week, Russia's Foreign Ministry said that Zelensky's desire to possess nuclear weapons reveals him as "a maniac" who needs it for blackmail.

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'TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!' — Trump slams USAID for spending millions of dollars on news agencies praising Dems

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🇺🇸🇸🇻 Will Trump OUTSOURCE US prisoners to El Salvador?

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has offered to jail US deportees and violent criminals—including American citizens. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the proposal "unprecedented and extraordinary."

🔍 What’s in the Proposal?

▪️Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele calls it "outsourcing" part of the US prison system

▪️El Salvador would accept only convicted criminals

▪️US deportees and criminals would be held in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum-security prison in Tecoluca

▪️Bukele seeks a "fee" from the US, calling it "relatively low" for Washington but enough to sustain El Salvador’s prison system

🔍 What is the CECOT?

▪️A 23-hectare mega-prison built in 2022 and opened in January 2023 amid a gang crackdown

▪️Built at a cost of $115 million

▪️Can hold 40,000 inmates but housed just 14,500 as of August 2024, potentially leaving room for US prisoners

▪️El Salvador has a history of human rights abuses, harsh prison conditions and torture

🔍 Is it legal to send US citizens to El Salvador?

▪️Trump said: “If we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat”

▪️ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told NPR that deporting US citizens would be unconstitutional

▪️The US could hypothetically deport non-nationals to a third country, but it would require complex legal steps

▪️Human rights groups warn that sending prisoners to El Salvador would raise serious concerns

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🗣 NATO wants to paralyze the work of Russian ports in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions, said the chairman of the country's Maritime Collegium Nikolai Patrushev.

The West is trying to prevent Russia from using maritime transport communications, creating risks for the safety of shipping and people's lives, Patrushev said.

In response to the dangerous actions of the West in the maritime sphere, Russia is creating its own analog of a mobile satellite communications system for the navy, the chairman added.

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🇫🇷🇷🇺 French journalist convicted over claims against Macron’s wife SUPPORTS Russia’s policy

"I love this country very much ... I respect [Russian President] Vladimir Putin very much and support Russian policy. And [State Duma lawmaker] Pyotr Tolstoy speaks excellent French, and I agree with him when he talks about the decline of the West. So, you understand why between the United States and Russia, my soul is inclined towards Russia," Natacha Rey told Sputnik.

Previously, the journalist said she was going to file a lawsuit against the French First Lady for forgery. Rey also said she was seeking political asylum in Russia due to fears of renewed persecution for communicating with the Russian press.

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📹 Russian intelligence to patriotic Americans: 'Honor does matter'

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📹 Trump reveals how assassination attempt CHANGED him

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Where did a large-scale FRAUD with US taxpayers' money take place?

Just over 2% of the more than $4.4 billion allocated by the US agency USAID for Haiti has actually reached the country, findings published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research show.

▪️Fifty-six percent of the funds were deposited in companies based in Maryland, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C. area, while 41% went to "other" organizations.

▪️At the same time, neither US taxpayers nor Haitians can track exactly how the aid was spent or whether it had any real impact on the situation in the country.

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📹🔥 Easy tip: don't even try to attack Russian land

WATCH Russian drones destroy Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles as part of Kiev's failed counteroffensive in Russia's Kursk region.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 Top Israeli official posts photo of pager Israel's PM gave Trump as memento of operation against Lebanon's Hezbollah

"The pager symbolizes the prime minister's decision that led to a turnaround in the war and the starting point for breaking the spirit of the terrorist organization Hezbollah," an adviser to Netanyahu's office said in a statement on X.

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🇵🇱🤥 First world problem? Polish president Duda whines about his future $3K monthly retirement pay

"This is not such a large sum, taking into account all the responsibility that has been imposed all these years," he said.

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