Mike Benz

Then we send in our covert action boys, the CIA, to say, don't you cast doubt. Look at the language told Brazilian senior officials that President Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country's voting system. It's not even his country's voting system. We sent the semiconductor chips to build that because Brazil didn't want them themselves.

Then we send in our covert action boys, the CIA, to say, don't you cast doubt. Look at the language told Brazilian senior officials that President Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country's voting system. It's not even his country's voting system. We sent the semiconductor chips to build that because Brazil didn't want them themselves.

So we're putting the machines in there and then telling them, don't question the results of these machines. So go to the next one. So then this is also some foreign policy. A month after Bill Burns, it was the Pentagon secretary, Lloyd Austin's turn to go down to Brazil and push the chief of the Brazilian armed forces to commit to actually do a pledge. Go to the next slide.

So we're putting the machines in there and then telling them, don't question the results of these machines. So go to the next one. So then this is also some foreign policy. A month after Bill Burns, it was the Pentagon secretary, Lloyd Austin's turn to go down to Brazil and push the chief of the Brazilian armed forces to commit to actually do a pledge. Go to the next slide.

Brazil manifestos seek to rein in Bolsonaro before election. This is before the election in a July conference with regional defense ministers. So we are personally paying as U.S. taxpayers for the head of the Central Intelligence Agency to go down there. We are. suffering under a chip shortage, and we are getting that diverted so that electronic voting machines can go down.

Brazil manifestos seek to rein in Bolsonaro before election. This is before the election in a July conference with regional defense ministers. So we are personally paying as U.S. taxpayers for the head of the Central Intelligence Agency to go down there. We are. suffering under a chip shortage, and we are getting that diverted so that electronic voting machines can go down.

Then we are paying for the flights of the CIA director to go down and warn them not to cast doubt on the machines that they couldn't build without us and that the president didn't want. So this was – and actually, let me show you something else here as well.

Then we are paying for the flights of the CIA director to go down and warn them not to cast doubt on the machines that they couldn't build without us and that the president didn't want. So this was – and actually, let me show you something else here as well.

Why do they care? So – My focus on this is on the internet censorship side. I love the people of Brazil. I love Brazilian Zouk dancing. I've always been around Brazilian people. I don't speak Portuguese. But I didn't seek this out. This was something that was an unavoidable, inescapable reality of the US censorship work that I was focused on.

Why do they care? So – My focus on this is on the internet censorship side. I love the people of Brazil. I love Brazilian Zouk dancing. I've always been around Brazilian people. I don't speak Portuguese. But I didn't seek this out. This was something that was an unavoidable, inescapable reality of the US censorship work that I was focused on.

It was a recurring fact since Trump won the election in 2016, as soon as Bolsonaro started gaining traction in Brazil, that these issues were interlinked, that they wanted to stop Bolsonaro for the same reasons they wanted to stop Donald Trump. I have that much 100%. There are other issues.

It was a recurring fact since Trump won the election in 2016, as soon as Bolsonaro started gaining traction in Brazil, that these issues were interlinked, that they wanted to stop Bolsonaro for the same reasons they wanted to stop Donald Trump. I have that much 100%. There are other issues.

So I have this big unpublished report that I'm just showing you some things from here tonight, but that'll be published sometime in the next several months. There is the open question. So the technical reason they said they did it is because Bolsonaro was a threat to democracy. Who's they? The CIA and Biden? The CIA, Biden, State Department, USAID, the NGO swarm.

So I have this big unpublished report that I'm just showing you some things from here tonight, but that'll be published sometime in the next several months. There is the open question. So the technical reason they said they did it is because Bolsonaro was a threat to democracy. Who's they? The CIA and Biden? The CIA, Biden, State Department, USAID, the NGO swarm.

We have this concept called democracy promotion programs.

We have this concept called democracy promotion programs.

which is this idea that if something is categorized as an authoritarian threat or it leads to illiberal democracy without sufficient democratic institutional safeguards, we deputize our democracy promotion programs to basically overturn their governments, to do regime change operations, to institute judicial reforms in the country, to control their prosecutors.

which is this idea that if something is categorized as an authoritarian threat or it leads to illiberal democracy without sufficient democratic institutional safeguards, we deputize our democracy promotion programs to basically overturn their governments, to do regime change operations, to institute judicial reforms in the country, to control their prosecutors.

their judges, their universities, their unions, their media ecosystems in order to manage their democracy. And when something gets categorized as a threat to democracy, that's a technical term that unleashes the capabilities of our regime change apparatus. Now, they did that to Trump. They did that to Bolsonaro. There are.

their judges, their universities, their unions, their media ecosystems in order to manage their democracy. And when something gets categorized as a threat to democracy, that's a technical term that unleashes the capabilities of our regime change apparatus. Now, they did that to Trump. They did that to Bolsonaro. There are.