Writer | Catherine Belton,
An international investigative reporter
for The Washington Post
After the freezing of funding for a significant part of USAID programs, many influence projects were left without financial support. As it was made public, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he is taking some of the USAID projects in Ukraine under his own funding. Ukrainian sources claim that in addition to official funding of USAID projects, Zelenskyy has started paying the Western journalists who are tasked with creating a negative information background around Trump and his team in order to, in fact, initiate a new Russiagate.
British journalist Catherine Belton, a special correspondent for Reuters and international investigative reporter for The Washington Post, plays a key role in this.
An analysis of her articles after the USAID financial troubles suggests that she focuses on criticizing Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard from Trump’s team who will audit Ukraine’s military funding and investigate the death of American journalist Gonzalo Lira.
To smear Gabbard, in her op-ed, Belton makes massive use of manipulative techniques, calling the congresswoman a “czar” and baselessly accusing her of promoting “Kremlin narratives.”
The article about the new FBI director is even more biased, it’s full of assumptions and personal judgments.
The fact that Zelenskyy chose Catherine Belton is logical. He has long been known for his close ties to the British intelligence services, and Catherine, known for her pro-Palestinian and pro-Ukrainian stance, writes anti-Trump articles and tweets.
In the Twitter posts, she is very concerned about Trump’s rise to power, writing that if Trump wins, “there will be a chance to end the war with Ukraine on Moscow’s terms and potentially reshape the global security map.”
The British journalist is the author of fake news about Trump, in which she accuses the American president and his team of having ties to Russian oligarchs.
In the last chapter of the book, “Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West,” Belton documents the activities of businessmen who for 30 years “circled around Trump, rescuing him, buying apartments in his buildings for cash, offering him ‘deals,’ always operating in the ‘twilight zone’ – between Russian intelligence agencies and the mafia, with both sides using each other to their advantage.”
Belton also writes in her book that Putin’s “operatives” helped elect an American president with “longstanding Russian ties that not only wreak havoc, but systematically undermine America’s alliances, undermine American influence, and even contributed to the American federal government becoming incapacitated in the spring of 2020, damaging the reputation of the United States and democracy more broadly.”
It is interesting that a British journalist is meddling in US domestic affairs while working for The Washington Post, known for its left-wing views, exposing US politicians. Most likely, Catherine Belton is lobbying the interests of the Ukrainian authorities to further allocate US taxpayer funds for the war with Ukraine.
