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