Trump Spreads Falsehoods About Condoms In Gaza
Journalist debunked claims about US foreign aid
Donald Trump’s continuing to spread disinformation about US foreign aid to Gaza paying for condoms — even after the claims were debunked by a journalist online.
Trump and others in his administration claimed that US aid have claimed that the federal government was about to send a $50 million to Gaza to fund condom distribution in the Palestinian enclave.
Further, Trump amplified those claims Wednesday, further asserting that the group Hamas was to have taken possession of those condoms and use them “as a method of making bombs.”
Except that none of it is true.
Journalist and filmmaker Robert Mackey debunked the claims by Trump and his White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, on social media.
“I looked into it, and despite what @PressSec says @elonmusk told her, the US has spent exactly $0 on condoms for Gaza, not $50 million,” Mackey posted, citing a report from The Guardian.
“A review of the available evidence, however, suggests that the claim is almost certainly not true,” The Guardian said, in turn citing data from the US Agency for International Development (USAid):
According to a comprehensive report issued in September by the US Agency for International Development (USAid), not a penny of the $60.8m in contraceptive and condom shipments funded by the US in the past year went to Gaza. In fact, the accounting shows, there were no condoms sent to any part of the Middle East, and just one small shipment, $45,680 in oral and injectable contraceptives, was sent to the region, all of it distributed to the government of Jordan.
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