USAID Transferred Thousands of Virus Samples to Wuhan Institute of Virology
USAID: A bureaucratic pathogen that continues to sicken the nation.
One of the biggest targets of President Donald Trump’s administration has been the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). As we noted in a previous report, thousands of bureaucrats in that destructive agency are slated to be fired by this September.
“USAID” may truly be one of the most ironic names of all times. The magnitude of chaos and corruption it engaged in is still being assessed. It has literally harmed our country, especially in terms of America’s relationship with other nations.
There is one recent revelation that is truly astonishing. In an exclusive report, The Daily Caller reviews previously unreported documents show that USAID shipped nearly 11,000 viral samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China over a decade-long period, primarily through its PREDICT program.
The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government.
A $210 million USAID public health program called PREDICT, steered by the University of California-Davis, collected viral samples in countries throughout the globe but lacked long-term storage when funding dried up, according to rudimentary plans in 2019.
USAID’s sample dispensation plan for China is sparse: “No need [sic] information from Yunnan. They were never an official lab partner for PREDICT. All samples they helped collected [sic] are sent to, tested, and stored in Wuhan.”
🚨SCOOP: USAID shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents. pic.twitter.com/XUVAkZp16y
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 8, 2025
USAID also directed millions to EcoHealth Alliance, which was one of the entities that partnered with the Chinese researchers at the laboratories in Wuhan, where the COVID virus now appears to have been created.
Those same programs also directed millions of dollars in grant funding to the New York-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance and its subgrantee, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)—two organizations that feature prominently in investigations into the possibility that COVID-19 was an engineered virus that escaped from a lab.
EcoHealth Alliance, its now-former president Peter Daszak, and WIV were all debarred from receiving federal funding during the Biden administration for failing to abide by restrictions and transparency requirements related to virological experiments they were conducting in Wuhan—where the COVID-19 outbreak started.
Those experiments involved collecting SARS-like coronavirus viruses in the field, from both animal and human sources, and then manipulating them in at WIV.
USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which then used U.S. taxpayer funds to support gain-of-function research on coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab—research that likely led to the creation of COVID-19.
The CIA’s deception regarding COVID-19 origins becomes much clearer… pic.twitter.com/mrgosgo4PH
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 2, 2025
You might think that an organization that helped create the conditions leading to a global pandemic might be a bit more humble and restrained in policy-making going forward.
Current and former USAID and State Department officials are using their expertise in undermining authoritarian regimes abroad against President Donald Trump and his agenda at home, according to a new report Monday.
The Trump administration is still in the process of terminating thousands of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers by September as the agency restructures to fall in line with the president’s “America First” policy.
NOTUS reporter Jose Pagliery reported, however, that “Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.”
Fired USAID bureaucrats warn Trump of coming regime change 👀 pic.twitter.com/FVcRihUWKT
— Bradley Jaye (@bradleyajaye) July 7, 2025
USAID: A bureaucratic pathogen that continues to sicken the nation. Hopefully, the Trump administration, especially Secretary of State Marco Rubio, can find a cure quickly.
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If this crap had happened in China or Russia just take a moment to imagine how they would have handled it. Imagine how they would have handled that ahole who just indirectly made a threat. Never mind lasting another 20 years how the hell have we ever last until now.
China heap big mad over CIA tossing them under bus via USAID.
election interference against trump
Crimes against humanity. A LOT of people need to be criminally prosecuted, or it’s still just **clown world**
Nothing is going to happen. Nothing ever happens. The republicans might howl in outrage and then . . . crickets chirping in the wind. Nothing. Nobody is going to be criminally prosecuted for “crimes against humanity” or anything else for that matter. And you can bet your last dollar on that one. Bondi won’t do a thing and Trump won’t push the matter. Guaranteed. So Welcome to the Clown World!
You are correct of course. There can only be three reasons for why the corrupt to the core in Washington never go to jail. 1) The people who have the power to prosecute them are funneled money or gifts under the table, to look the other way. 2) Because corruption is rampant in DC, the perp tells the prosecutor ‘if you go after me, i am going to flip on the other corrupt to the core d-bags in DC, and ruin the goose that lays the golden eggs for all of us’. 3) Some combination of both 1 and 2.
More evidence that USAID was little more than a deep pocket, government-sponsored slush fund for hair-brained schemes, outright corruption, and funding pet projects and agendas of bureaucrats and politicians under the guise of foreign aid.
Up until recently, weren’t USAID employees and officials denying that they ran color revolutions in foreign countries? Yet now they’re making threats to do here, to Trump, what they formerly did overseas. The mask comes off.
If USAID was run by the enemies of the United States, would it have done anything differently? Everyone with any decision-making authority at USAID should be looking at serious charges, up to and including treason.
If only that were to happen. But as in the past nobody will be held accountable for their illegal acts and actions. Nobody ever is when it involves democrats or the organizations that they run. Oh yes, republicans might just howl in outrage for a time but then. , . .crickets chirping in the wind. Nothing. When push comes to shove the republicans simply don’t have the balls to do anything. So don’t expect anyone in authority at USAID to be trembling in their boots at this point. They’ll just walk away from it all with their federal pensions and that will be it. And there you go and here we are. Disgusting but true.
I have several thousand doses of cure on hand, ranging in cost from 22.5¢ to several dollars each. Single doses, properly applied. often work just fine. Doubling up seems to quicken results.’
Notice how the usual proponents of ‘big gov’t’ run from Covid Cray Cray? No interest in origins to totally unscientific policy implementation to jab health damage/deaths to near total lack of transparency like a scalded dog? Putting faith in ‘Top Men’ hidden away form oversight is total failure and future demands to support big gov’t should be rejected.
“ “Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.””
So going from being “democracy building experts” to undermining democracy in one fell swoop. They are administrative state experts.
USAIDS
Pretty much assumed this to be the case previous to this news
May I remind you all that the reform of USAID into an American institution is something to thank Donald Trump for?
The chance Kamala Harris would have done so is exactly 0%.