Fake News Network Media ‘Hysteria’ Over USAID Document Shredding
USAID distraction
The White House casually “dismissed” network reports that USAID is shredding and burning documents to hide evidence. That’s “fake news,” spokeswoman Anna Kelly insists. Documents really are being shredded and burned but there are digital copies of everything.
From what the DOGE investigators are learning, Democrats would be much better off if the evidence was actually disappearing. That’s because what’s being uncovered is a lot worse for the blue team than it is for the administration.
It’s true that Trump and his cabinet are in the process of shutting USAID down completely. More than 80 percent of what they were spending money on was fraud, waste and abuse.
In recent days, the public learned that the $20 billion EPA gold bar scandal was even bigger than anyone imagined. That was only part of a $375 billion secret slush fund Democrats buried in foreign aid funding between November and Trump’s swearing in.
On Wednesday, March 12, the White House confirmed that acting USAID Executive Secretary Erica Carr “instructed employees to begin shredding and burning documents.” Democrats instantly sent lawyers with the government labor unions off to file a federal injunction over it on Tuesday.
That’s become their standard response to everything President Donald Trump orders. It’s not working but it is annoying to conservatives and helps Democrats stall for time while they figure something else out.
Nothing was lost
All of the documents that Democrats are complaining about loudly in the press “remain available on computer systems.”
The only reason they’re cleaning out the file cabinets is because “Customs and Border Protection is poised to move into the USAID building.” The administration issued a statement clarifying things for the record.
The destruction order “was sent to roughly three dozen employees. The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems. More fake news hysteria!”
Not only that, an administration official adds “everyone involved in the process of eliminating” the files USAID collected “had a secret security clearance or higher, and were not among those placed on administrative leave.”
“As a result, those involved were familiar with the content they were handling and were specifically appointed by the agency to review and conduct the purge.”
The remaining few USAID staffers were instructed by email to “shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.“
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