NEW: Joe Rogan sets the record straight after Bono claimed 300,000 people have died because of DOGE: “[USAID] was a money laundering operation… there’s no oversight, no receipts. There is a lot of fraud, a lot of money laundering.”
Bono: “Just recent report, it’s not proven, but there’s surveillance enough suggests 300,000 people have already died from just this cut-off, this hard cut of USAID. So there’s food rotting in boats, in warehouses. This will not make you happy, no American will, but there is, I think it’s 50,000 tons of food that are stored in Djibouti, South Africa, Dubai, and – wait for it – Houston, Texas. And it is rotting, rather than going to Gaza, rather than going to Sudan, because the people who know the codes for the warehouse, they’re fired, they’re gone. And so this, I don’t know, I just, it’s, what do you think? What is that? That’s not America, is it?”
Joe Rogan: “Well, they’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Right? This is the problem. The problem is, for sure, there have been a lot of organizations that do tremendous good all throughout the world. Also, for sure, it was a money laundering operation. For sure, there was no oversight. For sure, billions of dollars are missing. In fact, trillions that are unaccounted for, that were sent off into various – they don’t even know where because there’s no receipts. The way Elon Musk described it, he said if any of this was done by a public company, the company would be delisted and the executives would be in prison. But in the United States, this is standard. When Biden left office, when it was clear that Trump won, in the 73 days, they spent $93 billion from the Department of Energy on just radical loans, just throwing money into places. And there’s no oversight, no receipts. Like the whole thing is – there’s a lot of fraud, a lot of money laundering.”