Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Clears House at Leftist ‘Rogue Operation,’ USAID

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

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“If you live by executive order, you can be canceled by executive order,” says Victor Davis Hanson on this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” when talking about the Trump administration’s decision to restructure the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), originally created by President John F. Kennedy via executive order in 1961. “It's been released that they were subsidizing everything from trans festivities overseas to gay comic books. But what was very interesting was there was a $40 million-plus grant to the Wuhan virology lab and channeled, apparently, through EcoHealth, Peter Daszak’s organization. This is important because under testimony, we were under the impression that Anthony Fauci only had his hands on $600,000.” “At the very time the Democratic Party is polling, according to Quinnipiac—a very liberal polling organization—just 31% approval, a historical low—they all know what they have to do. And that is move to the center. But Donald Trump has moved so fast, and in so many untraditional ways, that their natural hysteria has overcome their sense of reality.” For Victor’s latest thoughts, go to: https://victorhanson.com/ Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqkXbgqrDrDVInBMSoGQgQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Remember, Donald Trump, almost by Fiat, has said that the USAID should be canceled. It's been
0:37.3	released that they were subsidizing
0:40.1	everything. But what was very interesting was there was a $40 million plus grant to the Wuhan
0:46.6	Biology Lab and channeled apparently through Echo Health, Peter Dasick's organization. Some of that
0:52.1	money was hidden and packed with this rogue organization,
0:55.6	USAID. This is important because under testimony, we were under the impression that Anthony Fauci only
1:02.1	had his hands on 600,000. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
1:20.0	I'd like to talk about this frenzied activity of Donald Trump's and the reaction that the Democrats are exhibited. Remember,
1:31.8	Donald Trump, almost by Fiat, has said that the USAID should be canceled. He sent Elon Musk in.
1:39.3	It has this huge $50 dollar budget.
1:53.5	It's been released that they were subsidizing everything from trans festivities overseas to gay comic books.
2:03.6	But what was very interesting was there was a $40 million-plus grant to the Wuhan biology lab and channeled apparently through Echo Health, Peter Dasick's organization. This is important because under testimony, we were under
2:09.1	the impression that Anthony Fauci only had his hands on 600,000. In addition to the instrumentation
2:16.7	that was allowed to be used by Wuhan from American
2:20.2	sources and the expertise that was transmitted, we were said, well, we could, there was some money
2:25.8	and maybe it was against the law in the United States, but it was a third party. But it was,
2:30.4	it didn't make any difference. This was a multi-million dollar project.
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