Trump slams USAID funding for India's voter turnout, alleges 'Kickback Scheme'

Donald Trump has criticised the $21 million USAID funding for voter turnout in India, labelling it a 'kickback scheme.'

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00:00Donald Trump is at it again. He's again mentioning with regard to the USAID funding and the 21 million dollars for voter turnout

00:08So to say for India has led to more showdown Donald Trump in the latest has said

00:1321 million dollars for voter turnout in India. Why are we caring about India's turnout? We've got enough problems of our own

00:20It's a kickback scheme, you know, that's what he's referring to kick back often means remember a certain

00:27Bribery for something or a quid pro quo

00:30Was there something in return that was coming from India so to say or Indian groups to the USA?

00:37Let's listen in to what Donald Trump said

00:41And 21 million dollars for voter turnout in India, why are we caring about India turnout we got enough problems

00:49We want our own turnout. Don't we can you imagine all that money going to India?

00:53I wonder what they think when they get it now, it's a kickback scheme, you know

00:58It's not like they get it and they spend they kick it back to the people that send it

01:02I would say in many cases many of these cases

01:05So just to give you a background remember Elon Musk are leading the government

01:10Efficiency which is called the doge and decided to pull back from a millions of dollars of funding that were being sent to other countries

01:17on various sometimes frankly cryptic issues

01:20One was for 21 million dollars earmarked for voter turnout in India now

01:26BJP leaders are saying this was for a regime change. They wanted a government change

01:30They didn't want Modi to return and that is what is happening to overthrow Modi government

01:35Donald Trump is blaming Biden administration over it saying they wanted someone else to be elected

01:41So based on what Donald Trump is saying

01:44BGP Congress has had a showdown here in India as well in the domestic politics where Congress has said all these claims are

01:50Nonsensical that Donald Trump is making and if the allegations are so true

01:54Why not have a white paper and detail all these charges Shivani Sharma is joining me for the latest on that

02:00Shivani it's very interesting that you know, I expect BGP Congress to be fighting over this but Donald Trump also is not letting this go

02:07He is also consistently making one statement after another about 21 dollars here 21 million dollars earmarked for India

02:20Yes

02:2321 million dollar u.s. Aid funding for voter turnout in India and he's not stopping there

02:28he's been saying that there must be a kickback scheme and

02:32he's trying to

02:34kind of

02:35Rake up this issue again and again

02:38He's what he has already made this mention two days back

02:41Remember Pooja where he was saying that that was I think it was being used to

02:45Make somebody else to elect somebody else to impact the election system in India

02:50And again, he's saying that why do we need to give 21 million dollars to India?

02:54So he's putting out that question again and again on the electoral process in India

02:59That can be a debatable issue in India between the parties that know how that's what you were also saying

03:05But US President Donald Trump making mentions of India and the electoral process and how this 21 million dollar aid was to be used

03:13To impact the elections is quite interesting

03:15All right, Shivani keep tracking the latest on this and this is very interesting. Remember because one after another