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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

We trained all of Brazil's judges. Yes, yes. In fact, in the program, the banner program that coordinated this, they said one of the specific reasons they did this is so that these judicial institutions, what they call EMBs, election management bodies, this has been a big push.

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

We trained all of Brazil's judges. Yes, yes. In fact, in the program, the banner program that coordinated this, they said one of the specific reasons they did this is so that these judicial institutions, what they call EMBs, election management bodies, this has been a big push.

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

since Trump one to to control the judiciary's because USAID its charters is allowed to do so-called judicial reform to influence the laws in the in the judicial decisions in foreign countries and so you know you can if you want to sit through this whole thing but you can hear her say it so this is all make this up this is in the report with millions of other things but I'll put this on my ex account for for folks you know right after this but if you want to go the next slide

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

since Trump one to to control the judiciary's because USAID its charters is allowed to do so-called judicial reform to influence the laws in the in the judicial decisions in foreign countries and so you know you can if you want to sit through this whole thing but you can hear her say it so this is all make this up this is in the report with millions of other things but I'll put this on my ex account for for folks you know right after this but if you want to go the next slide

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

You'll see. If you want to just hear straight from the horse's mouth without having to skip around. So this is a presentation of the top judge in Brazil to the Wilson Center, which is the close partner and implementer of the U.S. State Department. It gets, I think, over 30 percent of its annual funds directly from U.S. taxpayers. It is one of our flank of State Department interlocutors.

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

You'll see. If you want to just hear straight from the horse's mouth without having to skip around. So this is a presentation of the top judge in Brazil to the Wilson Center, which is the close partner and implementer of the U.S. State Department. It gets, I think, over 30 percent of its annual funds directly from U.S. taxpayers. It is one of our flank of State Department interlocutors.

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

Now, if you want to play that, I can give you a background. They did a whole war game for teaching them how to censor a Bolsonaro post, the Wilson Center, the State Department-funded Wilson Center with them.

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

Now, if you want to play that, I can give you a background. They did a whole war game for teaching them how to censor a Bolsonaro post, the Wilson Center, the State Department-funded Wilson Center with them.

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

In fact, if you skip to the end of it, just do the last 45 seconds and you'll get the picture of it. We brought them in for this. Yeah, just, yeah, like, or actually, no, no, no. Start a little bit for that. Yeah, yeah, right there. Yeah, that's fine. You'll see.

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

In fact, if you skip to the end of it, just do the last 45 seconds and you'll get the picture of it. We brought them in for this. Yeah, just, yeah, like, or actually, no, no, no. Start a little bit for that. Yeah, yeah, right there. Yeah, that's fine. You'll see.

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

Okay, so if you pause there. Now, the Wilson Center is a U.S. State Department organ. We pay for this. The Wilson Center then got together with Brazilian judges and officials and did a whole disinformation war game to train them on the best practices of what we'd used to censor Trump during the 2020 election. You know, who else was at the Wilson Center?

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

Okay, so if you pause there. Now, the Wilson Center is a U.S. State Department organ. We pay for this. The Wilson Center then got together with Brazilian judges and officials and did a whole disinformation war game to train them on the best practices of what we'd used to censor Trump during the 2020 election. You know, who else was at the Wilson Center?

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

Nina Jankovic, the head of the Disinformation Governance Board. We are literally taking best practices from the U.S. that were used to stop Trump from winning in 2020 and training every organ. We went around to the prosecutors, the judges, the universities. There's a whole story here with the unions. Top to bottom, we spent tens of millions of dollars.

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

Nina Jankovic, the head of the Disinformation Governance Board. We are literally taking best practices from the U.S. that were used to stop Trump from winning in 2020 and training every organ. We went around to the prosecutors, the judges, the universities. There's a whole story here with the unions. Top to bottom, we spent tens of millions of dollars.

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

like is there the ned still yes they're in a full-blown panic over it uh and now there are there's a question of if they can offset that through funding from the eu and other international bodies like the un they want to try to create sort of like replacement funding through the the private donor networks through The Soros networks and the Gates networks are going to have to pay.

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

like is there the ned still yes they're in a full-blown panic over it uh and now there are there's a question of if they can offset that through funding from the eu and other international bodies like the un they want to try to create sort of like replacement funding through the the private donor networks through The Soros networks and the Gates networks are going to have to pay.

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

The Craig Newmark networks, the Piero Midiar networks, the Reid Hoffman networks may have to spend their own billions to offset that. But they're also working with these in power. The censors in exile here in the U.S. are trying to get this funding to continue this work by partnering with foreign governments to get it now that USAID is down. But that is going to cost them a lot.

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

The Craig Newmark networks, the Piero Midiar networks, the Reid Hoffman networks may have to spend their own billions to offset that. But they're also working with these in power. The censors in exile here in the U.S. are trying to get this funding to continue this work by partnering with foreign governments to get it now that USAID is down. But that is going to cost them a lot.

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

Whatever the best role for me is. My North Star here is about freedom of speech. And it's not about trying to get a particular person elected. It's not about... what happens in foreign countries for the sake of what happens there. Like I said, I think Bolsonaro is a hero. I think he's a martyr figure. I think it's a human rights violation what happened to him.

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

Whatever the best role for me is. My North Star here is about freedom of speech. And it's not about trying to get a particular person elected. It's not about... what happens in foreign countries for the sake of what happens there. Like I said, I think Bolsonaro is a hero. I think he's a martyr figure. I think it's a human rights violation what happened to him.