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You like Ivanka?
Yeah. Yeah, that was an interview between Kanye West and Tucker Carlson from 2018. It's resurfacing now because Kanye went back on Twitter, or I guess it's now called X, and started implying that he had certain relations with Ivanka. And this is as seems like Donald Trump is just kind of constantly humiliating Ivanka. The thing to know about Ivanka is she was a major player in USAID.
And that's what Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been attacking over and over again. The irony, if you want to call it that, is Donald Trump and Elon Musk and MAGA spread all of these lies saying that Ben Stiller and all of these entertainers got millions of dollars visiting Ukraine and for doing all of these things, which is quite literally Russian propaganda disinformation.
There is zero truth to it. It is quite literally all lies. When Ivanka was working in the first Trump administration, or I wouldn't say working, whatever the heck she was doing, initiatives related to her got paid about $250 to $300 million. She was pushing a USAID Women's Empowerment Initiative.
where they would launch these initiatives in Africa and across the world, and it was a major part of her priorities. Now, it should also be noted that she and Jared Kushner made about $650 million personally, and that doesn't include the $2 billion that Jared Kushner got for his own fund by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund,
After he left office, remember, during January 6, Kushner was negotiating his own personal deals in the Middle East at that time. But this was a major part of what Ivanka was doing. And now Donald Trump, Elon Musk are basically calling the main initiative that Ivanka was part of. a total fraud.
And they are also now saying all these other celebrities were getting paid when that literally probably came from Russia. It's like 100% false. Here are just some photos of Ivanka showing what USAID actually does. Wheelchairs for sick kids, work for vulnerable women. If you actually go through the USAID records, you'll see that a lot of money was spent for her initiatives.
And you can make this stuff up, folks. Back in 2019, Ivanka Trump loved USAID. Here it is right here. Here's a video of one of her initiatives. Let's play it. As you can take a look at the spending, $265 million from USAID to Ivanka's causes. USAID helped fund Melania Trump's Be Best program and Ivanka Trump's Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative during the first Trump term.
And each woman traveled with the agency on separate trips to Africa where they praised the investments it was making on the continent. Ivanka Trump traveled with the then USAID administrator Mark Green to Africa. in April 2019, where they met with women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and rural cocoa farmers on the Ivory Coast.
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