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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Former Marine DEBUNKS USAID Rumors

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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secure. Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm Katie Helper. I'm Mary Matei. Thanks so much for being

1:05.0

here. Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. Go there to support the show and get bonus content. And today's interview is really

1:13.0

excellent. It's with Brian Berletic, and he has a fascinating analysis of what motivates Donald

1:19.8

Trump when it comes to USAID and also things like the tariff. So definitely excited for people

1:26.0

to hear that. All right. Let's get to our four basic food groups. What do we have for Democrats suck?

1:31.2

So for Democrats suck, we have a great example of Democrats basically sucking in their response

1:36.9

to things. They always manage to focus on the wrong thing when they're trying to take on Trump.

1:42.2

And there is something, you know, I think lots of people

1:44.6

talked about Trump being an existential threat at moments when he wasn't. But certain things that are

1:52.1

happening are really, really quite worrisome. For instance, Elon Musk's doge trying to basically

1:58.1

take over the treasury. They have access to federal workforces, personal data.

2:03.3

And the way that the Democrats are responding to this isn't by talking about how this is kind of a

2:08.3

constitutional crisis because it affects the balance of powers.

2:13.5

They're focusing on the fact that it will affect USAID, and they're trying to come up with clever slogan.

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