That coalition of Arab states that are going to rebuild Gaza better get
a move on because it looks like the cycle is about five years long and
they won't have the job done before Hamas attacks again and Israel
knocks it all down again.

Has Trump been buying shares in a building material company ?

https://www.facebook.com/home.php

Explanatory enough ?

Its sad what TDS has done to Foxy?

What's even sader is America has a bloke meant to be
the most powerful man in the world and who acts like a
twitter troll.

America should put the Trumpster in the Dumpster!

And, Peter Dutton does not for many push the right
buttons.

That's also sad.

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Dear mhaze,

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You wrote :

« … of the now $34 million given to Politico around $8 million came from USAID. The rest was from a range of other Biden departments including Treasury. Corruption on a grand scale. »

I have not found any evidence of corruption, mhaze, nor have I found any suggestion by anybody (other than you) that there is evidence of corruption. You say it was “corruption on a grand scale”. How many people were involved ? Who committed the corruption ? Have they been apprehended ? If so, what are the charges ? If you have evidence of the corruption, would you kindly share it with me.

Failing that, mhaze, I’m afraid I can only conclude that there does not appear to have been any corruption of any sort. My understanding is that various government entities subscribed, not to Politico, the digital newspaper, but to Politico Pro, which provides in-depth coverage and information on about a dozen major topics that interest them. Politico Pro does not receive any government subsidies. The large majority of clients are from the private sector.

According to an article on foxnews.com, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is quoted as having declared :

« … any government funding Politico had been receiving will end as President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cracks down on spending.

I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to, essentially, subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers dime, will no longer be happening »

Leavitt refers to the subscriptions as “subsidies”, but they were payments for specific services requested and received by the government entities that outsourced them. All such work that is ordered and performed to the satisfaction of the client merits payment and is not a subsidy. It is payment for services rendered.

Leavitt made no suggestion that there had been any “corruption on a grand scale”, mhaze.

Politico issued this note to its readers :

http://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/politico-note-to-readers-00202917

The CEO of Politico’s parent company wrote this to Trump :

http://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/media/mathias-dopfner-fareed-zakaria-politico/index.html

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Same old Banjo.

Defines 'corruption' in a very narrow sense and then says he can't see any.

But there's all sorts of corruption possible. In this case it was multitudinous payments from all sorts of government entities to all sorts of media in the expectation that favourable coverage would follow.

If businessman 'B' gave monies to parliamentarian 'P' in the expectation that 'P' would vote in the right way when 'B' required it, it may not be corruption in the legal sense. But it corrupts the good governance of the nation.

Same here. Taxpayer monies were passed to media for reasons that had nothing to do with benefiting the public. Corruption of good governance. In the case of the deep state they got amply repaid through Politico's subservient repeating of deep state talking points vis a vis the Hunter laptop, as just one of myriad examples.

" It is payment for services rendered."

And the services rendered were grovelling repetition of deep state talking points.

Your quotes from Leavitt are four days old. Things are moving much faster than that so the $8 million figure is wildly out-of-date.

see below.