Melania and Ivanka's close ties to USAID exposed as Trump goes scorched-earth on the 'corrupt' agency

Melania and Ivanka Trump utilized thousands of dollars from USAID to money favored projects during Trump's archetypal word it's been revealed arsenic the agency's spending comes nether scrutiny from the president.

The president has gone scorched-earth against the USAID this week, berating its usage of tax-payer dollars and saying it had to beryllium 'corrupt' successful its spending.

But contempt Donald's disdain for the assistance agency, it has maintained adjacent ties with his woman and girl for years by investing successful their authorities ventures. 

USAID helped fund Melania Trump's Be Best programme and Ivanka Trump's Women's Global Development and Prosperity Initiative during the archetypal Trump term.

And each pistillate traveled with the bureau connected abstracted trips to Africa, wherever they praised the investments it was making connected the continent.

Ivanka Trump travelled with then-USAID head Mark Green to Africa successful April 2019, wherever they met with women entrepreneurs successful Ethiopia and agrarian cocoa farmers connected the Ivory Coast.

USAID oversaw $265 cardinal per twelvemonth successful spending Ivanka Trump's women's concern inaugural and an associated antipoverty program.

Melania Trump partnered with the bureau connected her 2018 travel to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt.

In Malawi, the archetypal woman promoted USAID's nationalist speechmaking program, which was donating connected Trump's behalf 1.4 cardinal textbooks to the much than 5,600 superior schools successful the poverty-stricken nation.

'I americium truthful arrogant of the enactment this medication is doing done USAID and others,' the archetypal woman said astatine the time, 'and look guardant to the accidental to instrumentality the connection of my Be Best run to galore of the countries, and children, passim Africa.'

In his archetypal term, Trump heavy chopped backing for the assistance bureau but it inactive recovered wealth to put into his family's authorities ventures.

Ivanka Trump utilized USAID for her programme to beforehand women successful business, claiming 12 cardinal women astir the satellite had been helped by it.

She travelled with the bureau to Colombia successful September 2019 to tally a store for women entrepreneurs.

That aforesaid year, she besides utilized implicit $11,000 from the bureau to bargain video signaling and reproducing instrumentality for a White House event, its records show.

Meanwhile, USAID was 1 of the archetypal agencies to sanction an ambassador to Melania Trump's Be Best initiative.

When Melania Trump archetypal announced her signature programme successful May 2018, she asked authorities agencies to sanction a liaison to her group. USAID instantly did so.

At her one-year day solemnisation successful May, Melania acknowledged the bureau and thanked it for naming the archetypal Be Best ambassador.

'For the archetypal clip successful history, the United States Agency for International Development has appointed a Be Best ambassador,' she said.

'On this 1 twelvemonth day of my initiative, I telephone connected each of our spouse agencies to name a beryllium champion ambassador who volition service arsenic a liaison betwixt my bureau and their respective bureau to amended item and beforehand the programs and services offered to parents and children connected behalf of the US government,' she added.

Donald Trump was sitting successful the assemblage listening.

Neither the East Wing, the West Wing, nor Ivanka Trump's bureau responded to DailyMail.com's petition for comment.

USAID delivers billions of dollars successful humanitarian assistance overseas.

The Trump medication is threatening to unopen it down oregon bring the autarkic bureau nether the umbrella of the State Department.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is present acting manager of the bureau it's been announced this week.

Hundreds of USAID contractors were placed connected unpaid permission and immoderate were terminated. Elon Musk, who is moving Trump's Department of Government Efficiency oregon DOGE program, said the bureau would beryllium eliminated.

Its Washington D.C. bureau is closed and employees were either enactment connected permission oregon told to enactment from home.

Trump has said of the agency: 'It's been tally by a clump of extremist lunatics, and we're getting them out.'

He besides claims it 'had to beryllium corrupt' to o.k. definite initiatives. 

The president has berated the bureau for its spending practices, including having a subscription to Politico Pro, a work that tracks authorities and different authorities news.

And his property secretary, Karoline Leavitt, gave a blistering relationship of USAID's spending. Speaking to reporters astatine the White House past week, she held up a expanse of insubstantial giving details of the astonishing ways successful which taxpayers' wealth had been doled out.

It was an apparent notation to a communicative successful Daily Mail, which archetypal outlined the shocking expenditures related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), connected which President Trump has ordered a crackdown.

'I don't cognize astir you. But arsenic an American taxpayer, I don't privation my dollars going toward this crap. And I cognize the American radical don't either. And that's precisely what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do. To get the fraud, discarded and maltreatment retired of the national government,' Leavitt said.