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February 7, 2025

Regime Change in America?

There is evidence that USAID and the CIA covertly orchestrated the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump.

I want to share a deeply troubling report with you that is just beginning to get legs.
 
It is important to state up front that the source of this information is not a well-known conservative group or media outlet. The source is Michael Schellenberger, once described as a “Democrat climate activist” who voted for Joe Biden.
 
But he became alienated from liberalism as it grew increasingly intolerant and embraced censorship. He was instrumental in exposing the depths of government censorship operations in the United States after Elon Musk took over Twitter and opened up its internal operations to independent review.
 
Schellenberger and his group of investigative journalists have just revealed information that could be earthshattering: There is evidence that USAID and the CIA covertly orchestrated the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump over his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky.
 
As you might expect, the details are somewhat complex, but here are the central facts. 

  • CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, an Obama holdover, filed a whistleblower report claiming that Trump abused his power by attempting to extort Zelensky, demanding he investigate the Biden family’s dealings in Ukraine in exchange for military aid. 
  • Ciaramella was NOT on the call. He claimed he got the information from a source inside the White House. 
  • In his complaint, Ciaramella cited reporting from a group called the “Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project” (OCCRP) four times. 
  • The OCCRP report alleged that Rudy Giuliani was connected to Ukrainian prosecutors by two businessmen. The convoluted Giuliani connection was key to the Democrats’ impeachment effort.

 
Now, this is where things take a disturbing turn.
 
The OCCRP is not an independent group that fights corruption. In a documentary produced last year about the OCCRP, an official at USAID states that they essentially control the OCCRP by approving its “annual work plan” and the hiring of “key personnel.”
 
Schellenberger adds that the goals of the OCCRP “appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change.”
 
In fact, the OCCRP’s co-founder admitted to the documentary producers that his organization was likely “responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government … and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.”
 
So, what do we have here? A CIA agent is using information produced by an organization controlled by USAID to concoct a story that Democrats then used to launch their impeachment effort.
 
Here’s how Schellenberger sums it all up:
 
“As such, it appears that the CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for the CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries … to interfere in US politics this way.”
 
If this is true, that a variety of alphabet soup agencies worked together to set up the impeachment of the president of the United States, we are at a moment of crisis in America.
 
Elon Musk’s work to “audit” the federal government and expose corruption is more important than ever!
 

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