USAID & CIA Exposed As Orchestrating Trump’s 2019 Impeachment

On Wednesday, journalist Michael Shellenberger exposed how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secretly orchestrated the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump in 2019 by linking Rudy Giuliani to former Ukrainian prosecutors.

“The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden,” Shellenberger declared Wednesday in a post on his Substack. “In the complaint, the whistleblower claimed to have heard from White House staff that Trump had, on a phone call, directed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.”

Infowars.com reports: In December it was revealed that the whistleblower from the CIA relied on reporting from an ‘independent’ investigative news organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) for his report that was used by Congress in Trump’s impeachment indictment.

Notably, the OCCRP got its initial funding from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department.

“OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change,” Shellenberger said Wednesday in a post on his Substack.

A OCCRP report ‘Meet the Florida Duo Helping Giuliani Investigate for Trump in Ukraine’ was used four times in the CIA whistleblower complaint which was used by the House to impeach Trump.

The link between USAID and the OCCRP was confirmed in 2024 in a German documentary by television broadcaster NDR. It detailed OCCRP’s dependence on the U.S. government. The film revealed that USAID approves OCCRP’s annual work plan and approves new hires of key personnel, according to a USAID official in the documentary.

This documentary was censored however, according to French investigative news organization Mediapart, who helped with NDR’s investigation along with Italian ‘new group Il Fatto Quotidiano’, ‘Reporters United in Greece’ and ‘Drop Site News‘ in the United States.

According to Mediapart, the documentary was censored “after U.S. journalist Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and head of the OCCRP, placed pressure on the NDR management and made false accusations against the broadcaster’s journalists involved in the project.”

“As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad,” Shellenberger said Wednesday in a post on his Substack. “The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as “cut-outs,” to interfere in US politics this way.”