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Mike Benz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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PBD Podcast
USAID Corruption & Brazil's Elections w/ Nikolas Ferreira & Mike Benz | PBD Podcast | Ep. 550

But whenever some something's deemed a threat to democracy, there's always something else behind it. Right. In Trump's case, it was very obvious that Trump's policy about Eurasia. Was the primary reason that they ran all of the coup like actions against him from the multiple impeachment, multiple impeachments to the 91 felonies.

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

But whenever some something's deemed a threat to democracy, there's always something else behind it. Right. In Trump's case, it was very obvious that Trump's policy about Eurasia. Was the primary reason that they ran all of the coup like actions against him from the multiple impeachment, multiple impeachments to the 91 felonies.

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

to the special prosecutor's probe, the Bob Mueller two-and-a-half-year FBI special prosecutors, to the whirlwind of state-funded media and intelligence six ways from Sunday's things against him. There were other things that Trump did that flew in the face of the interests of international corporations and banks and foundations and NGOs. That one was the primary one in my view.

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

to the special prosecutor's probe, the Bob Mueller two-and-a-half-year FBI special prosecutors, to the whirlwind of state-funded media and intelligence six ways from Sunday's things against him. There were other things that Trump did that flew in the face of the interests of international corporations and banks and foundations and NGOs. That one was the primary one in my view.

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

In the Bolsonaro story, since my primary focus is on Internet censorship, it's very easy for me to tell that story, and I can walk you through that whole thing. But in terms of the why they did it, again, technically, all they need to say is threat to democracy, but there are always interests underneath that, and there are many threads. There is a sort of murder mystery, whodunit.

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

In the Bolsonaro story, since my primary focus is on Internet censorship, it's very easy for me to tell that story, and I can walk you through that whole thing. But in terms of the why they did it, again, technically, all they need to say is threat to democracy, but there are always interests underneath that, and there are many threads. There is a sort of murder mystery, whodunit.

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

There are many... Financial interests in Brazil. There are many U.S. multinational corporations of interest there. There are international interests around China and the relationship between China and the Biden administration. There's the connection with the unions and many of the union groups.

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

There are many... Financial interests in Brazil. There are many U.S. multinational corporations of interest there. There are international interests around China and the relationship between China and the Biden administration. There's the connection with the unions and many of the union groups.

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

And there's several others, and this is actually why I'm happy to sit in and sort of play second chair to Nicholas because I have my own questions around the specifics of who financially benefit from any of these things. Because, for example โ€“ Lula connected his whole government to China, and he was very open about that.

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

And there's several others, and this is actually why I'm happy to sit in and sort of play second chair to Nicholas because I have my own questions around the specifics of who financially benefit from any of these things. Because, for example โ€“ Lula connected his whole government to China, and he was very open about that.

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

This is the sort of thing that the State Department and the CIA and USAID typically run operations to stop, and yet you had this very strange situation where we ran these operations to install it, this Chinese influence in Brazil.

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

This is the sort of thing that the State Department and the CIA and USAID typically run operations to stop, and yet you had this very strange situation where we ran these operations to install it, this Chinese influence in Brazil.

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

And when you look at the Biden family relationship with Chinese stakeholders, you look at the Hunter Biden, you know, $10 million basically windfall from Chinese clients for his consulting company and partnerships with Chinese energy companies. You see this recurring pattern with the Biden administration.

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

And when you look at the Biden family relationship with Chinese stakeholders, you look at the Hunter Biden, you know, $10 million basically windfall from Chinese clients for his consulting company and partnerships with Chinese energy companies. You see this recurring pattern with the Biden administration.

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

I don't have, though, since everything I do is open source, I don't have any confessions from people in the U.S.

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

I don't have, though, since everything I do is open source, I don't have any confessions from people in the U.S.

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

I don't know that. There are things that keep coming up in my research about it that I find highly disturbing and I would not be able to get without the subpoena power of Congress.

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

I don't know that. There are things that keep coming up in my research about it that I find highly disturbing and I would not be able to get without the subpoena power of Congress.

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

And it is my opinion that at the end of this process and once the report that I'm working on is published and all this can be just โ€“ the whole timeline, chronology, network map, funding flows, cast of characters, all that โ€“

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

And it is my opinion that at the end of this process and once the report that I'm working on is published and all this can be just โ€“ the whole timeline, chronology, network map, funding flows, cast of characters, all that โ€“