A contractor employed by the Biden-Harris Administration to find the “root causes” of mass migration was caught in a massive, decade-long bribery and corruption scandal, as was revealed by Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters when he was speaking in an epic June 19 broadcast of his show “Watters World.”
As background, Watters’ exposé came after the DOJ announced that three government contractors and a USAID official had pleaded guilty to a massive scheme involving $1 million in bribes to steer over half a billion dollars in foreign contracts funded by USAID to the bribing companies.
Things then got worse, as it came out that Walter Barnes III, a corrupt individual who founded a Baltimore-area company that took advantage of the USAID handouts and admitted to paying bribes, including a country-club wedding, cash, and a trip to Martha’s Vineyard, to get the contracts, was implicated in Kamala’s “root cause” investigation.
Beginning his comments on the matter, Watters noted that the border zone is seemingly empty now that someone serious about protecting it is in charge, saying, “The Southern border is a ghost town. Every bad hombre in the third world knows we’re not spread eagle anymore. They love Joe and his borders czar, Kamala. She was never really interested in building a wall. She just wanted to find ‘root causes.'”
He then rolled footage of Kamala rambling and complaining about the “root causes.” Giving on of her typical word salads, Kamala said, “We want to work with you to address both the acute causes as well as the root causes. We are focused on addressing both the acute factors and the root causes, not only the root causes, but the acute causes.”
Continuing with the word salad, Kamala said, “To look at the root causes and the acute causes. My trip to Guatemala and Mexico was about addressing the root causes, addressing the root causes of irregular migration. For the past three years, I have led our administration’s efforts to address the root causes of migration…”
That’s when Watters made the big reveal, which was that Walter Barnes was involved in the “root causes” contracting scheme. He began, noting that the whole thing resulted because Kamala didn’t want to investigate the matter herself, saying, “We’re learning now that she did what Joe did, and tried to pass that work off onto someone else, using USAID.”
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Continuing, Watters explained that Barnes got involved in the root causes contracting scheme, saying, “They wrote up a contract worth up to $800 million for consultants to find the root causes for them. But here’s the problem. Walter Barnes III< the man who founded one of these companies that got the cash, was a known con man.”
Watters then gave a brief overview of Barnes and how he got the contract despite being known as corrupt, saying, “He just pled guilty to a decade long USA ID bribery scheme, and the government knew he was shady for years, even before they gave him the all the money and 2023 the USAID Inspector General said Barnes lacked honesty and integrity, but on the same day he was awarded an $800 million contract, they had good reason to be suspicious.”
Watters then noted, “Over the years, Barnes secured big money deals by bribing USAID employee with pricey basketball suites, a trip to the vineyard and even a down payment on a house. Isn’t that nice? And once he got paid, Barnes burned through pallets of cash doing everything. But what we paid him to do. We reached out to Walter, never got back to us.”
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Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video