The scheme was to be disguised as a USAID project, a news outlet claimed, citing a recently declassified intelligence report
US President Donald Trump has posted a link to a news story claiming that the Ukrainian government was involved in a plot aimed at financing Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign.
The scheme would have relied on diverting US taxpayer money allocated for a USAID project in Ukraine, the media outlet Just the News reported on Thursday, citing a recently declassified intelligence report it obtained.
The plot dating back to late 2022 could have involved “hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to the report. US intelligence reportedly discovered the plot by intercepting Ukrainian government communications, the outlet said.
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard reportedly learned about the intercepts only recently and ordered a summary of all the information on the case, which was partially obtained by Just the News.
“The Ukrainian Government and unspecified US Government personnel, through USAID in Kiev, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s re-election campaign,” the document received by the news outlet states.
The plotters expected the project to eventually be “disapproved as unnecessary,” but not before they would collect the necessary sum that would be “would be difficult to track” and “impossible to return,” the report reportedly says.
According to Just the News, it is unclear whether Kiev moved forward with the plan. Neither the DNI office, nor Gabbard herself made any comments on the issue. Trump also did not comment on the link he posted.
Earlier in March, a US government auditor sharply criticized the lack of oversight in the USAID-managed Ukraine aid program worth $26 billion. A March report by the auditor found that Washington sometimes reimbursed duplicate payments to Ukrainian citizens living in other nations who were ineligible.
Trump dismantled USAID in 2025 after accusing it of wasteful spending. The State Department took over its responsibilities.
