Elon used this photo to “prove” that USAID (that he defunded) funds terrorism.
Except USAID was not funding terrorists or giving them tents. The photo was taken after terrorists raided a depot in Azaz, near the Syria-Turkey border.
They stole the tent,along with food & weapons.
Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"
I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.
Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.
It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1
One study found Musk’s closing of the U.S. Agency for International Development could cause the deaths of millions of children. https://t.co/qaQMoCPf82 (Photo: Associated Press)
.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.
@tpgoebel Production of the Robotaxi vehicles has started this month and unfortunately Musk has shelved a small car against the resistance by many of his trusted top people at Tesla. Right now, there would be lots of demand for a small Tesla.
I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.
Just to get it straight. Donald Trump has:
- threatened Canada (a NATO member) with invasion
- threatened to occupy Greenland (part of Denmark, a NATO member)
- announced several times that he wants to leave NATO
- refused to support Ukraine, even though the United States gave security assurances to Ukraine in the Budapester Memorandum of 1994
- actively finances Putin‘s war against Ukraine by easing sanctions against Russia
- denied that soldiers from European countries have ever supported the United States and thereby
- spitting on the legacy of fallen European soldiers who supported U.S. operations
- imposed witless tariffs on its allies
- insulted the leaders of allied countries over the past months
And now he wonders why not everyone comes running when he calls.
The situation in the Strait of Hormuz is a mess for the whole world. But Donald Trump himself is responsible for this geopolitical chaos.