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Last year, after repeatedly claiming that there was a ‘famine’ in Gaza and that everyone there was on the brink of starving to death (without actually starving to death) for a year, Cindy McCain claimed that the UN’s World Food Programme could “use $17 billion right now”.
That number has since been boosted to $21 billion.
But instead of pouring in more money, the World Food Programme headed up by Cindy Hensley McCain, an heiress and political dilettante, is getting its contracts torn up.
President Trump ended WFP’s contracts in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, and is downsizing its funding for Muslim enemy nations such as Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen, unfortunately however still not in Gaza, where its lies and fraudulent claims have done enormous harm.
Cindy McCain and top UN WFP brass repeatedly lied about a famine in Gaza. Weeks after Oct 7, McCain falsely claimed that Muslims in Gaza were “literally starving to death as we speak”. Next month she contended impossibly that “food and water are practically non-existent in Gaza” and a few months later, the UN claimed that “this is a population that is starving to death.”
The Israelis caught the UN faking a famine again and again by refusing to deliver food and allowing it to pile up and rot. The UN lied about the number of food truck deliveries, claiming on one date that only 1,497 trucks had entered Gaza, when the actual number was 6,359. The UN claimed that it was too dangerous to deliver the food, but then refused Israeli protection and blamed the Israelis for their own refusal to deliver the food.
After Israel rescued hostages from Hamas, the UN spitefully ended food distribution from Biden’s $200 million Gaza aid pier, claiming that the rescue endangered its aid operation. Rather than saving anyone in Gaza, the UN had joined Hamas in holding them hostage.
Even as photos and videos showed fully stocked supermarkets in Gaza, the UN’s WFP claimed that “no food supplies have entered Gaza for more than three weeks” and Cindy McCain signed a letter last week claiming that “for over a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza” and accused Israel of “an utter disregard for human life.” No mention was made of asking Hamas to surrender and release the hostages.
And if this is how the UN lies and manipulates the situation in Gaza, what is it doing in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and other Islamic terrorist-controlled areas?
Much as the WFP claimed that without more money, everyone in Gaza would starve, it’s spread the same claim that it’s the only thing standing between 150 million people and famine.
“If we fail to act, we are condemning millions of children to a lifetime of suffering”, Cindy McCain warned against shutting off aid to Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria.
But Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria are Islamic terrorist states, one of which we’re currently at war with, and they have no more of a claim on our money than the Hamas supporters in Gaza do.
The Trump administration originally put a stop on more WFP contracts before reopening them again in February. And the Trump administration, likely due to the influence of Steven Witkoff, has continued spending millions on aid to Gaza.
Shortly after lifting the payment halt on the WFP, $134 million in US aid was directed to Gaza through various aid programs as part of the Biden-Witkoff ‘ceasefire’ deal that saved Hamas.
US foreign aid to enemy states is not only a waste of money that ought to be used to help Americans, but in many cases that money ends up going through terrorists and their organizations which provide services, employ their people or take a share of the aid.
Shutting down USAID was supposed to rein in NGOs like WFP.
Last year, a report from the Inspector General’s Office of USAID found that WFP along with UNICEF and other UN groups were not being held accountable for their spending and that there was very little oversight. The WFP, which received nearly $14 billion in USAID funds between 2019 and 2022, was the largest USAID recipient. This was in keeping with USAID’s policy of deliberately refusing to know what its grant recipients and contractors were doing with the money.
But between its politically sensitive bulk purchases of agricultural products in America for redistribution to third world countries to the McCain name and the threats that children will starve without more taxpayer money, the Trump administration is still in business with the WFP.
There are serious questions about whether the United States should maintain current levels of ‘humanitarian aid’ especially to enemy nations, but the practice of outsourcing aid to NGOs and various contractors which are often politically radical and have their own agendas, should end.
The United States should not be in the business of funding or delivering aid to areas controlled by terrorists or enemy nations. That is how the FDR administration saved the USSR. If we’re going to send food aid, let’s send it to friendly and beleaguered Christian populations in Africa.
US money should not be funding a hostile UN organization that has lied repeatedly about famines and engaged in moral blackmailing while demanding endless billions of dollars.
It’s time to cut off Cindy McCain’s UN money train.
