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Mike Benz

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PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

Well, are you referring, when you say they went to tell Bolsonaro, are you referring to the CIA director Lloyd Austin? I actually can pull that up on screen. If you go to the slide deck, it'll be slides starting on slide 12. I can walk you through that.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

Well, are you referring, when you say they went to tell Bolsonaro, are you referring to the CIA director Lloyd Austin? I actually can pull that up on screen. If you go to the slide deck, it'll be slides starting on slide 12. I can walk you through that.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So this is the U.S. State Department. Go to the slideshow.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So this is the U.S. State Department. Go to the slideshow.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So and we'll go through this line by line here. But the U.S. State Department called in massive favors and leveraged personal connections to build voting machines for Lula aligned Brazil officials. And then the CIA warned Bolsonaro not to warrant not to mess with or cast doubt on all the new U.S. State Department secured voting machines determining his election.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So and we'll go through this line by line here. But the U.S. State Department called in massive favors and leveraged personal connections to build voting machines for Lula aligned Brazil officials. And then the CIA warned Bolsonaro not to warrant not to mess with or cast doubt on all the new U.S. State Department secured voting machines determining his election.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

And if you go to the next slide and walk through this. So this is from the Financial Times. This piece is basically about. In fact, you go to the slide after this first. What they say is this was a concerted but unannounced. So this was basically a covert action by the Biden White House. the Biden Pentagon, the Biden CIA and the Biden State Department to fortify Brazil's election.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

And if you go to the next slide and walk through this. So this is from the Financial Times. This piece is basically about. In fact, you go to the slide after this first. What they say is this was a concerted but unannounced. So this was basically a covert action by the Biden White House. the Biden Pentagon, the Biden CIA and the Biden State Department to fortify Brazil's election.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So if you go back to the other one, the slide before. So the U.S. provided practical help in the election process to obtain components, especially semiconductors needed to manufacture the new voting machines. The former U.S. ambassador to Brazil. So they are using shadow diplomacy here because they don't want their formal U.S. State Department fingerprints on it.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So if you go back to the other one, the slide before. So the U.S. provided practical help in the election process to obtain components, especially semiconductors needed to manufacture the new voting machines. The former U.S. ambassador to Brazil. So they are using shadow diplomacy here because they don't want their formal U.S. State Department fingerprints on it.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

They're going to aid the former US ambassador in Brazil to leverage his personal connections with Taiwan Semiconductor, And to leverage those connections, I'm sorry, inside of the Texas instruments to distinguish semiconductor needs and give priority. Now, we have a semiconductor shortage here in the U.S. They are diverting semiconductor chips that the U.S.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

They're going to aid the former US ambassador in Brazil to leverage his personal connections with Taiwan Semiconductor, And to leverage those connections, I'm sorry, inside of the Texas instruments to distinguish semiconductor needs and give priority. Now, we have a semiconductor shortage here in the U.S. They are diverting semiconductor chips that the U.S.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

needs and sending them to Brazil, a foreign country, to add voting machines that the democratically elected president of Brazil doesn't want. The U.S. State Department and some senior Brazilian officials also asked Taiwanese authorities to give priority to Brazil's need for semiconductors, which are used in the voting machines. And then if you go to the next slides here. Yeah.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

needs and sending them to Brazil, a foreign country, to add voting machines that the democratically elected president of Brazil doesn't want. The U.S. State Department and some senior Brazilian officials also asked Taiwanese authorities to give priority to Brazil's need for semiconductors, which are used in the voting machines. And then if you go to the next slides here. Yeah.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So then I say what's funny is both the 1964 military hunt in Brazil and the 2022 judicial hunt in Brazil received direct help from the CIA to rise to power. And then if you. If you go to the next one, you'll see CIA chief, this is Reuters, told Bolsonaro government not to mess with Brazil election. This is in May 2022. 64 is cool.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

So then I say what's funny is both the 1964 military hunt in Brazil and the 2022 judicial hunt in Brazil received direct help from the CIA to rise to power. And then if you. If you go to the next one, you'll see CIA chief, this is Reuters, told Bolsonaro government not to mess with Brazil election. This is in May 2022. 64 is cool.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

Brother Sam.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

Brother Sam.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

Yeah. Yeah. But I want to just just kind of close the loop on this, because if you go to the next one, next slide. Yeah. So Bill Burns makes a personal voyage. This is months before the election even happens. We are now force-feeding Brazil electronic voting machines the elected president doesn't even want in the country. And so the State Department is doing that.

PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

Yeah. Yeah. But I want to just just kind of close the loop on this, because if you go to the next one, next slide. Yeah. So Bill Burns makes a personal voyage. This is months before the election even happens. We are now force-feeding Brazil electronic voting machines the elected president doesn't even want in the country. And so the State Department is doing that.