Do the Democrats use foreign aid as a kick back to their party?

After reading mounds of documents about foreign aid going astray, you would think the Democrats would put a tighter string on this money that is given willy nilly with no follow- up to be sure that it is used for what it was intended.

Up to now with all of the foreign aid distributed each year and no improvement in people’s lives – something is wrong with this picture. Look at Africa and the Middle East and how people live because the dictators are spending the money. Is the Democrats/United Nations using foreign aid as their own piggy bank?

It is time to institute a “FOLLOW THE MONEY” if the money is intended to improve the lives of the people in those countries because it “ain’t” happening.

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Trump Train

OMB officials: Ukraine aid Delayed Over Foreign Fair-Share Concerns

2019-12-02
Source: TTN
by: Deroy Murdock

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor, a contributing editor with National Review Online, and a senior fellow with the London Center for Policy Research.

NEW YORK — While Democrats see the face of Satan in Donald J. Trump’s 55-day pause in delivery of military aid to Ukraine, the President offers a far more innocent explanation: He wanted to assure that newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky honored his anti-corruption promises and that America’s allies paid their fair share to assist Kiev.

While plenty has been said about the former rationale for the suspended security assistance, a transcript released last week bolsters the latter reason for delaying this relief.

Mark Sandy, the Office of Management and Budget’s deputy associate director for national security programs, was interrogated on November 16 in House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D – California) secret dungeon beneath the U.S. Capitol.

Ranking Republican Devin Nunes, also of California, described Sandy to Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro on Saturday as “the top civil servant that controls the money” that reaches foreign-aid recipients like Ukraine.

Sandy was asked for “a reason why the President wanted to place a hold on security assistance?”

Sandy replied: “I recall in early September an email [from OMB official Mike Duffy] that attributed the hold to the President’s concern about other countries not contributing money to Ukraine.” Thus, both Sandy and Duffy cited foreign fair-share concerns for postponing relief to Kiev.

“The transcript for OMB’s Mark Sandy was just released,” Representative Lee Zeldin (R – New York) wrote via Twitter last Tuesday. “The ONLY reason he was ever given why there was a hold on $ to Ukraine was ‘the President’s concern about other countries not contributing more to Ukraine.’ NOT bribery. NOT quid pro quo or any other WACKY Schiff conspiracy!”

Zeldin later added via Twitter: “Mark Sandy is a dedicated, career public servant who came to Schiff’s Capitol basement bunker to answer under oath why there was a hold on US aid to Ukraine. He said the definitive answer from OMB was ENTIRELY about the President’s desire for other countries to contribute more.”

This justification for the aid pause echoes President Trump’s previous statements about his not wanting America to be the only nation to provide such assistance to Ukraine and other states.

“I don’t like being the sucker country,” Trump said on October 2. “We were the sucker country for years and years. We’re not the sucker country anymore.”

“But I gave the money because [Republican Senator from Ohio] Rob Portman and others called me and asked. But I don’t like to be the sucker. And European countries are helped far more than we are, and those countries should pay more to help Ukraine.”

Soon after entering office, President Trump offered Congress this budget message:

“We are going to do more with less, and make the Government lean and accountable to the people,” Trump pledged on March 15, 2017, some 2.5 years before Ukraine-o-rama erupted. “This includes deep cuts to foreign aid. It is time to prioritize the security and well-being of Americans, and to ask the rest of the world to step up and pay its fair share.”

Americans will keep debating whether any of this merits impeaching the President of the United States. However, this much is beyond dispute:

Ukraine survived a 55-day pause in security assistance, after which President Trump furnished them with lethal aid last September 11.

In contrast, Ukraine waited in vain for 1,066 days for Obama to provide such deadly military relief. Instead, for two years and 11 months — between Russia’s February 20, 2014 invasion and Obama’s January 20, 2017 departure from the White House — Obama sent Ukraine pillows and blankets. While President Trump ultimately dispatched tank-destroying missiles to Kiev, Obama gave the embattled Ukrainians something akin to a gift card for Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

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It is the same story in our own country:

Obama – robbed the taxpayers’ bank and tried to take over the country with the Democrats/intelligence groups/fake news media, and not a word is said because people are afraid to open their mouth because he is black. They call us racists every day and we know that we are not – because the Democrats are the racists.

Well, I am sick and tired of people who won’t stand up for our country. Look at the cities in the U.S. which are run by Democrats and literally are being destroyed because we are afraid to open our mouths. We move out of the cities and let them come in and destroy them. Can’t you see what their Pastor is saying, “they can’t run anything.” Why do we stand by and allow the Democrats to destroy what we all worked for?

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