Trump's hundred million dollar condom claim
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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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Summary
President Trump, or should we say Elon Musk, has turned off the taps on the spending of an entire government department - US AID. Many voters will be happy to see a red line through some of the overseas spending. Other figures, like a hundred million dollars on condoms for Hamas, have been entirely confected. Why is an unelected foreign billionaire deciding what happens to the American taxpayer money? And if no one stops Elon Musk and Donald Trump, where will they go next?
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| 0:12.2 | Think of it. A hundred million dollars on condoms to Hamas, condoms to Hamas, and many other things that are frankly even more ridiculous. |
| 0:23.6 | Imagine that. A hundred million dollars of US aid money going on condoms to Hamas. |
| 0:32.6 | I listened to it and I think this is unbelievable. Unbelievable. |
| 0:37.7 | It's simply unbelievable that this could happen. |
| 0:41.2 | And with reason, it's not true. |
| 0:44.5 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:49.4 | The Newsagents. |
| 0:51.0 | It's John. |
| 0:51.9 | It's Emily. |
| 0:52.4 | It's Lewis. |
| 0:53.1 | And we started talking about condoms and it's |
| 0:57.0 | unavoidable to do the simple maths that if a condom is 10 cents apiece and a hundred million |
| 1:02.4 | dollars has been spent on condoms for Hamas, that means they now have a billion condoms. |
| 1:09.6 | It is nonsense, as we said in the headlines, but so many other numbers |
| 1:13.9 | have been produced by the White House to justify taking a sledgehammer to the USAID |
| 1:20.3 | based on some very spurious figures. Yeah. And the reason we're talking about USAID, which is the |
| 1:27.0 | Agency of International Development, is because it has been the top target for Trump and Elon Musk in terms of cutting what they call wasted government spending. This is an agency that was started back in 61 by JFK, an independent agency in the belief that America's security was pretty much tied to the prosperity, to the stability of other poorer countries. |
| 1:50.4 | I guess a sort of rising tides theory. If, you know, if they're doing better, we'll be safer. |
| 1:54.8 | And it was meant originally to counter Russian and Chinese influence. |
| 2:00.3 | And Musk and Trump came in, Trump on day one |
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