US EditionTrump's $50 Million 'Condoms for Gaza' Claim Lacks Evidence
- Karoline Leavitt, the White House's new press secretary, claimed $50 million was earmarked for a condom distribution program in Gaza during her first briefing.
- The claim has been criticized as lacking evidence and described as an 'outlandish' 'feverish dream' by a former senior Biden official.
- Neither Trump nor his administration have provided evidence for the claim about the condom program.
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US President Donald Trump said that the head of the government efficiency department, Elon Musk, revealed that the administration of the previous president, Joseph Biden, allocated 100 million dollars for the procurement of condoms for Hamas.
Two weeks of Trump's second presidency are over. And so is the time for some diplomatic practices. The new US government threatens, lies, allows itself to be appeased - and kicks back.
During a signing ceremony for the Laken Riley Act in the East Room on Wednesday, he reiterated his praise for the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, for preventing what he characterized as $50 million that was to be "sent to Gaza to purchase condoms for Hamas." "We identified and stopped $50 million being sent to Gaza to purchase condoms for Hamas," Trump said on Wednesday. "They used them as a method of making bombs.
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