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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

who can use the power of the purse to slash budgets, who can do public hearings and put this all out, and prosecutors in the U.S. who can take appropriate action to the extent that there's criminal wrongdoing. There is right now, agency by agency, the people at the top of the perch have been the people who have been punished by the system. But, you know, RFK is at the head of HHS.

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

who can use the power of the purse to slash budgets, who can do public hearings and put this all out, and prosecutors in the U.S. who can take appropriate action to the extent that there's criminal wrongdoing. There is right now, agency by agency, the people at the top of the perch have been the people who have been punished by the system. But, you know, RFK is at the head of HHS.

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

Cash and now, you know, Dan Bongino at the top of FBI. Time and time again, we've seen this, you know, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at the top of NIH. I think that there is an American interest in pursuing this and the weaponization of the foreign policy establishment and its covert and overt capabilities and its NGO capabilities.

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

Cash and now, you know, Dan Bongino at the top of FBI. Time and time again, we've seen this, you know, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya at the top of NIH. I think that there is an American interest in pursuing this and the weaponization of the foreign policy establishment and its covert and overt capabilities and its NGO capabilities.

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

to go after bolsonaro as a way of going after donald trump and so i mentioned this phrase stopping the inner in uh the international exchange of ideas between trumpism and bolsonaroism so on that on that piece that i pulled up before the uh the foundation for freedom online brazil report you actually see that's a direct quote i think actually just if you scroll down or just run a control f for uh exchange you'll see this if we'll just yeah there you go

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

to go after bolsonaro as a way of going after donald trump and so i mentioned this phrase stopping the inner in uh the international exchange of ideas between trumpism and bolsonaroism so on that on that piece that i pulled up before the uh the foundation for freedom online brazil report you actually see that's a direct quote i think actually just if you scroll down or just run a control f for uh exchange you'll see this if we'll just yeah there you go

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

So this is funded by the U.S. here. If you scroll down, this is a U.S. taxpayer. So what this is, if you click this video, this is a presentation to IFES, which is a U.S. AID partner and implementer. This is an international idea. This is attached to the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID. And it's basically election management in foreign countries. And you'll see here our U.S.

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

So this is funded by the U.S. here. If you scroll down, this is a U.S. taxpayer. So what this is, if you click this video, this is a presentation to IFES, which is a U.S. AID partner and implementer. This is an international idea. This is attached to the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID. And it's basically election management in foreign countries. And you'll see here our U.S.

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

taxpayers paying international โ€“ they get all their money from Congress through a State Department contribution. So this was back in 2021, 2022. And if you just play this, you'll see what the thought process was ahead of Brazil's election for how our own NGOs were weaponized to go after Trump by going after Bolsonaro. Do you have an ad there?

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

taxpayers paying international โ€“ they get all their money from Congress through a State Department contribution. So this was back in 2021, 2022. And if you just play this, you'll see what the thought process was ahead of Brazil's election for how our own NGOs were weaponized to go after Trump by going after Bolsonaro. Do you have an ad there?

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

Okay. Yeah, if we go through both of them.

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

Okay. Yeah, if we go through both of them.

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

This is an international idea. Sure, I would address.

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

This is an international idea. Sure, I would address.

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

So here he is presenting โ€“ this is hosted by us, U.S. taxpayers. And this is โ€“ I published this years ago. I published this two and a half years ago at this point. Similar keywords on the Brazilian and U.S. populist right on Parler. And you'll see it's Trump, election fraud irregularities, the very things that โ€“ People in Brazil were prosecuted or banned from being able to talk about.

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

So here he is presenting โ€“ this is hosted by us, U.S. taxpayers. And this is โ€“ I published this years ago. I published this two and a half years ago at this point. Similar keywords on the Brazilian and U.S. populist right on Parler. And you'll see it's Trump, election fraud irregularities, the very things that โ€“ People in Brazil were prosecuted or banned from being able to talk about.

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

They grafted off of the model of something that was done here in the U.S. ahead of the 2020 election when DHS partnered with groups like EIP, the Atlantic Council, Grafica, two of our universities. to censor Americans' ability to talk about election voting machines. And then we systematically trained the Brazilian judges to do the same to stop Bolsonaro.

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

They grafted off of the model of something that was done here in the U.S. ahead of the 2020 election when DHS partnered with groups like EIP, the Atlantic Council, Grafica, two of our universities. to censor Americans' ability to talk about election voting machines. And then we systematically trained the Brazilian judges to do the same to stop Bolsonaro.

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

And I can walk you through that whole process. But this is just from things of our profession. If you let it play, you'll see how basically this is art, taxpayer-funded NGOs and CIA cutouts working with here a Brazilian professor, effectively, on how to co-strategize to stop the international exchange of ideas between Trump and Bolsonaro.

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

And I can walk you through that whole process. But this is just from things of our profession. If you let it play, you'll see how basically this is art, taxpayer-funded NGOs and CIA cutouts working with here a Brazilian professor, effectively, on how to co-strategize to stop the international exchange of ideas between Trump and Bolsonaro.