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Commentator 1
You like Ivanka?
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Commentator 2
Yeah.
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Commentator 1
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 US Aid, and that's what Donald Trump and Elon Musk have been attacking over and over again. You know the irony, if you want to call it, that as 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 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. Priorities now 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 six, 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. 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, here it is, right 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. USAID oversaw get this $265 million per year in spending Ivanka Trump's women's business initiative and an associated anti poverty program. Just so you see it one more time and don't worry, I'm going to connect the dots with Kanye, his posts and all of the I think kind of Ivanka humiliation that Donald Trump is initiating. But here is Ivanka promoting the work of US Aid to uplift women around the world. Here, play this clip.
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Ivanka Trump
Boosting women's empowerment is one of our agencies very highest priorities. We believe it's the right thing to do because equal opportunity is a fundamental American value. But it's also from a development perspective, the smart thing to do. Investing in women and girls accelerates development outcomes in health, food, security, conflict prevention. The list really goes on and on. Closing the digital divide helps to unlock billions of dollars in global gdp. Everyone is better off together.
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Commentator 1
That that's what the, the main first agency that they're going after. And they seem to be going after a lot of the types of programs that she was involved in or was related to. All right, so then Kanye goes back on Twitter. Now, X remember when the MAGA Republican Judiciary GOP account, like the official jud Judiciary account for all of the GOP in the House of Representatives, they went, Kanye, Elon Trump, right? Like Kanye was like the hero of the gop. So he goes back on X, he's been off for a little bit, or back on Twitter, whatever you call it, and says, George Farmer, I did not F your wife. Rest easy. Jared Kushner, on the other hand. So the timing of all of this is, you know, I just think, very interesting. You may have seen the report I did yesterday. Yesterday where Elon Musk seemed to be bringing up Jeffrey Epstein a lot, showed a video of Donald Trump's attorney general saying that, well, Trump's connection with Epstein was not as much as Clinton's, which by the way, I think is personally false. But you had Elon bringing that up also. Elon amplifying posts about how the Epstein file should be released. And Dick Durbin, Democratic Senator, was calling for them to be released. By the way, I thought Trump was going to release them. Didn't he say that was one of his campaign promises? All of Donald Trump's campaign promises are total lies. Prices are not getting lower. Housing is not more affordable. Inflation is not going down. The jobs report recently was weaker than expected in Trump's first month in office. And there has not been peace in Ukraine in 24 hours. America's weaker. The world is less stable. But now we. Let's take a look at some of these things, though, because we've been digging back up some of these posts from 2018, 2019. Remember when MAGA Republican influencer Benny Johnson posted this? Get you someone who looks at you the way Ivanka looks at Kanye. Well, how about this post? Did Jared Kushner already know? Take a look at some of these posts with Kanye hanging out with Ivanka. How about this headline from Bustle in April of 2018? These theories about why Ivanka keeps following and unfollowing Kanye are absolutely wild. Or how about this? The hug between Ivanka and Kanye west in the Oval Office. How about this? Trump, Kanye west and Ivanka at Trump Tower in 2016. Let me just play for you now that little bit longer clip, about 23 seconds of that Tucker Carlson and Kanye interview here. Play this clip.
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Commentator 2
I keep telling this joke. If people say Trump was the first black president, I'm gonna be the first Latino. Because all the values, the conservative values just line up.
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Commentator 2
Trump's this. What do you mean? He has his own buildings. What do you talk about? He's like, like Ralph Lauren. He made Ivanka. You like Ivanka? Yeah.
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Commentator 1
Know, while I'm at it, I think I should show share with you as well. Just so you can see, I'm going on a slight tangent here, but I think it's important. This is Marco Rubio. Over the years CNN did a good job compiling these clips of Marco Rubio. So Marco Rubio right now, who's also attacking usaid, which again, Ivanka had A Ivanka actually had a major part in. Marco Rubio used to love usaid. Republicans loved usaid. It's like a major thing that republic, when the Republicans were like Republicans, they liked it. It was fairly bipartisan. Giving aid abroad. It was a major part of America's. So look at all the things that Marco Rubio said about USAID before he put on the knee pads and kissed the ring of Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
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Marco Rubio
Have to give foreign aid. We do so because it furthers our national interest. That's why we give foreign aid. Now, obviously, there's a component to foreign aid that's humanitarian in scope, and that's important, too. I promise you, it's gonna be a lot harder to recruit someone to anti Americanism, anti American terrorism if the United States of America was the reason why they're even alive today. Anybody who tells you that we can slash foreign aid and that will bring us to balance is lying to you. Foreign aid is less than 1% of our budget. It's just not true.
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Commentator 1
While we're talking about, you know, this, the Kanye, Ivanka and Kanye saying all that about Ivanka, the attacks on usaid, I mean, just think about the closeness of Kanye to Donald Trump. Been to Mar A Lago Oval Office was like, a major part of kind of Donald Trump's, like, campaign, his events, just in general, a big supporter of him. And by the way, this is what Kanye was posting. There are other ones where he's, like, promoting Hitler and a bunch of people today. I don't want to show you those. They're so disgusting. But a ton of posts from Kanye were like, elon stole my Nazi swag at the inauguration. Yo, my guy, get your own third rail. There's other more direct ones of him saying positive things about Adolf. It's all. The whole thing is so absolutely gross and disgusting. And speaking of gross and disgusting, you've got Donald Trump making weird posts like this with Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk wearing massive, like, MAGA hats. The whole thing is, this is just utterly humiliating to the United States of America, I guess, and to Ivanka. Here's just the fact check I want to give. You know, Chelsea Clinton, Ben Stiller, Politico, did not get millions from US Aid. These are all doge hoaxes that are being spread and, you know, seeking to destroy the agencies, but also, you know, going down on Trump's enemy list as ways to attack people, as ways to attack Zelinsky by just spreading people like Ben Stiller to spread this, like, zero truth to it false. They paid all out of their pocket. But again, $300 million was spent on like Melania and Ivanka initiatives. So I wanted to do the fact check here. But I also wanted to show you that this was like one of Ivanka's proudest things in the first administration was talking about US Aid and now they're attacking it this way and depriving people who rely on it who literally are going to die if the aid is cut off. Cruelty is the point. It is worth noting that a federal judge at least temporarily halted the terminations of 2000 or so employees or putting them on leave at least through next week. We'll keep you posted on the outcome of that court case, but put these connections together. Okay? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 4 million. Thanks for watching.
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