Trump reposts article on alleged intercept of Ukraine and USAID plans to fund Biden’s 2024 campaign
The American publication "Just the News" reports on the alleged interception by U.S. intelligence of Ukrainian government communications discussing a plan to redirect several hundred million dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds, allocated for a green energy program in Ukraine, back to the United States to finance the 2024 election campaign of then-President Joseph Biden and the Democratic National Committee.
According to the publication, this is detailed in a declassified intelligence report in its possession, which summarizes intercepts dating back to 2022. The memo claims that USAID was involved in the redirection of the funds.
"The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign," the declassified summary of the intercepts states.
US. President Trump reposted a link to this article on his Truth Social network, noting that "The U.S. intercepted Ukrainian government communications discussing a scheme to direct money to Biden’s reelection." He did not write anything further.
The article claims that the declassified report is a summary of raw U.S. intelligence intercepts from late 2022 regarding the alleged conspiracy, but at the time, there was a lack of interest in investigating such an accusation of election interference in the U.S.
"Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and has asked the U.S. Agency for International Development officials to scour for records to see if the plot actually was carried out and whether a criminal referral should be made to the FBI. Gabbard’s team has not found substantive evidence the intercepted allegations were thoroughly investigated during the Biden administration, and the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts, officials said," the report says.
The intercepted records mentioned two American subcontractors as potential recipients of the money, which was ultimately intended to be transferred to the Democratic Party treasury. These names remain in still-classified data but were removed from the declassified report obtained by the publication. "The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track,” the declassified summary stated. “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from," the article said.
