Fox News contributor calls for criminal investigation into USAID workers
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From the February 5, 2025, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): USAID, as we've talked about, does some good stuff. And Marco Rubio, who is acting administrator, wants to preserve that good stuff, like money for PEPFAR kids in Africa. But the bad stuff is what we're after, Paul. Take a look at this. Again, best summation I've seen. So we gave you the topline figure going to terrorist organizations. Well, let's drill down. Sen. Cotton warning about money to Hamas. Syrian national charged with diverting millions to Al-Nusrah Front. Terrorism. The list goes on. The Wuhan Institute of Virology. What is the problem with ending this?
PAUL MAURO (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): There's no problem, of course. And as Harris points out, their reaction, we used to call this in law enforcement, a clue. Of course they're freaking out because this is their slush fund. And this is how they've been agenting the NGO's to do their bidding. These are stuff, this is all stuff that they couldn't do under official cover, right?
HARRIS FAULKNER (CO-HOST): That's right.
MAURO: So they are cutting out to the NGOs and the NGOs are doing their bidding. Here's where I would go with this. We just got Pam Bondi confirmed, right? Here's your first remit: Throw a squad, take a public corruption squad, and throw it at USAID. Go on the offensive. Don't be on the defensive because these people are ranting and raving. Go in there and let's find out how cognizantly it was done to subvert American policy. Because --
FAULKNER: There you go.
MAURO: -- that's criminal. Because if you are agenting somebody, you own that, that's black-letter law. So if I'm sitting where Pam Bondi is, and more power to her, get in there, start pulling the weeds apart, and see who directed this stuff. I go back to the IRS thing. Remember Lois Lerner? We all forgot --
MCENANY: Yes.
MAURO: -- about that. She's enjoying her pension some place. Let's go at this thing the way it should be done, criminally. And let's see if they still keep yelling when we start to see what's under those rocks.