What’s happened in the last few weeks in Washington is nothing short of an extinction-level event for the US deep state and a permanent upheaval in the global order. DC bureaucrats are punch-drunk and leaderless in the face of explosive, daily revelations of criminality, fraud and waste – they never expected the rapid-fire sledgehammer of Trump and his minions to be so ruthless and effective. Uncle Sam has turned out to be more globalist bully and kleptocrat than benevolent world sheriff, more Al Capone than Gary Cooper.

One agency above all has proved to be the heart of the beast, and that’s the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Now disbanded for ‘rank insubordination’ against Trump’s executive orders, per Secretary of State Rubio, USAID stands accused of a laundry list of dirty tricks, such as global regime change operations, funding crime-blind Soros prosecutors, facilitating the illegals’ flood into the US, driving the globalist censorship push, and importantly, the Democrats’ slush fund. It seems to have been the soft power arm, the semi-covert tip of the spear of the left’s plan to wokify the West. Oh and along the way they did save some babies in Africa, provide needed drugs and do various good works.

But notice this quote from author Justin Murphy, which Elon Musk retweeted: ‘The Professional Managerial Class has perfected a system of moral blackmail through which they convert third world suffering into personal wealth and status. They position themselves as noble humanitarian experts with PhDs who care deeply about things like global poverty, to justify their own sinecures extracted from the national purse. These credentialed do-gooders wield the threat of African deaths as a shield against any questioning of their privileges.’

Foundation for Freedom Online boss Mike Benz has spent much of the last decade mapping deep state networks, and says their world is fake: ‘…you’ve been living your whole life in a carefully constructed USAID Truman Show, where none of the institutions you meet – from the media, to public health, to universities to NGOs, to terrorists – are the institutions you think they are.’

Some notable examples of USAID’s work: When then vice-president Joe Biden threatened to withdraw a $US1 billion loan to Ukraine unless they sacked the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden’s company, it was USAID administering the loan. When State Department official Victoria Nuland organised Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan Revolution to install a US-friendly regime, she used USAID money. Their programs range from the ludicrous – $US8 million to study flavoured cigarette use among blacks and LGBTQ people – to the reprehensible – irrigating Afghan heroin fields and paying protection bribes to the Taleban  – to the sinister – working to bring down Bolsonaro in Brazil and funding gain-of-function work at the Wuhan lab. Although much of their work is overseas, the Wall Street Journal reports up to 90 per cent of their monies go back to local contractors in the US. Names like the Clinton Foundation, Soros groups, Hillary’s former campaign manager John Podesta, Georgia Democrat heavy Stacey Abrams and other Democrat darlings keep popping up in the USAID files, even the odd NeverTrumper Neocon.

The dirtier truth is that much of the funding lacked rigorous oversight, and was either ineffective or never made it to the target projects, with some finding its way into cronies’ pockets. For example, a $US1 billion USAID port build in Haiti never happened and was ultimately scrapped.

Particularly egregious and instructive is the legacy media buyoff, which explains the entrenched bias and uniformity of press hacks worldwide. The BBC got $US3.2 million, the New York Times $50 million from various government sources, and the left-wing Politico $8 million last year. Politico shot back that they never got government funds, but the money was paid through extortionate US$10,000 to $75,000 ‘subscriptions’. By comparison the storied WSJ charges under $100. USAID boasts of training and ‘supporting’ 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets and 279 media sector civil society organisations in 30 countries. Globally, USAID funded 9 out of 10 Ukraine media outlets, with some already closing. The idea that there’s a sizeable audience for leftist publications seems to be a myth. With the payments cancelled, watch for various media outlets to collapse.

Another outrage is the USAID funding of non-government organisations, now to be audited – are you still an NGO if you are largely government funded? While Congress was being told by Biden appointees that the border was safe and secure, USAID was shovelling out hundreds of millions to NGOs in South America to help illegals on their way into the US with badged facilities, resources, maps, coaching on what to say to border agents and more. Much of this money went to religious refugee groups, buying off the churches. Already reports are emerging of these groups slashing staff and closing. The Biden regime border dissembling was always a lie, and the illegal criminal and civilian invasion was planned and deliberate.

Benz sums up: ‘Drugs? Terrorism? Pandemics? Overthrowing governments? Prosecutorial lawfare? Rigging the media? Catalysing censorship? How many crimes against humanity can one government agency commit?’

A word of caution about figures being used, both here and elsewhere; the situation is so fluid that some may be wrong, or partly wrong.

Trump’s crash-through approach will produce casualties, but it was probably the only effective course open to him, given his limited time and the obdurate resistance to change in Washington. It’s an 80:20 approach, like Israel in Gaza, where you destroy the enemy first and then rebuild as necessary.

Clearly Trump’s 2020 loss hardened and educated the Maga movement, which has sprung back with deadly resolve. One hopes something similar may be happening in the UK under the tyranny of Keir Starmer. The Democrat resistance is ramping up, with over 20 lawsuits and swift judicial blocks occurring, and the legacy media is scarcely reporting the scandalous waste uncovered by the junior wizards of Doge, preferring to focus on the ‘coup’ and the ‘threat to democracy’.

Meanwhile the flood of executive orders and exposés will continue, so sit back and enjoy the show. I’m delighted by the return of plastic straws, and plead for incandescent light bulbs to come back. New York Post reporter Salena Zito famously said that the left takes Trump literally but not seriously, while the right takes him seriously but not literally. Well, I think the left might be taking him seriously now.