According to news reports, Elon Musk, special advisor to US President Trump, has said that no one has died since the cut off of US aid (shut down of USAID). Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof says otherwise and he has been there and seen it. Where? South Sudan—a place where thousands of refugees from a seemingly endless civil war live and die—including many women and children.
Watch this YouTube video: Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. It’s an opinion podcast of the New York Times.
Kristof reports seeing children dying and talking to in-country health workers who had given names of children who died since USAID was shut down because food and medicine deliveries stopped. USAID food and medicine are sitting in warehouses, undelivered, because Trump and Musk shut down USAID.
Did Musk lie? The implication is that he did. And seemingly about something as important as children’s lives.
Does Trump know that children are dying in Sudan (and probably other places) because USAID food and medicine have stopped getting to them because of the shutdown of USAID by his executive order? Surely he does.
Kristoff says that people who excuse this or who don’t care must have antifreeze flowing through their veins. Is that you?
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