Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. You've probably heard Democrats across the country totally freaking out about USAID because now suddenly we have Donald Trump's administration looking into it. And it turns out they don't really want to fund some of the things that USAID is funding. And we probably didn't actually know what USAID was funding because if we did,

the majority of us would come out and say, why are our taxpayer dollars going to this?

And that question then leads to why are Democrats so upset about us wanting to defund some of these

programs? And so to figure this out, I'm bringing in Tony Kinnett. He is an investigative

columnist for The Daily Signal and a radio host at WIBC in Indianapolis. Tony, thank you for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Tudor. Absolutely. So tell us, you've been investigating this whole situation.

It's very weird to me that everybody is so up in arms about this

and trying to protect it because I feel like it's kind of like the Wizard of Oz when you pull

back the curtain. It's something really weird behind it. So let's go in reverse. Let's talk about

optics. So the Republicans are supposedly, according to the legacy media, which has lost a

considerable amount

of influence, by which I mean almost all of its influence over the American public, right now,

the optics of the situation really demand from the opposition party to act calm, collected,

and just point. If you think really, truly, that the Republicans are doing something terrible and

evil and awful and crazy, then just like Trump was supposed to do during the Biden administration,

you simply point. And the American people go, oh, wow, you're right. You are so much better than

what's currently going on. But they're not. Instead, they're getting out in front of the country

and they're screaming, we're at war and fight on the streets and and all of this other insane stuff i mean actually

clipping out their own microphones outside of the treasury building screeching in the january

wait let me just stop you for a second because we i think we have that clip so let's play that

so people know I mean this is

kind of a mashup of a bunch of these people doing this so here it is and then we'll get back to it.

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