Mike Benz

You can't ask them their source, but...

the interests align these are the targets of of the u.s state department who happens to be funding them they are mercenary media for the state now what now i'm going to i want to mention two aspects of this scandal because it's this plays out everywhere but this one it's just it it's it's simultaneously clean and dirty enough that i feel like it's just an anecdote everyone should remember forever one directly on u.s politics and targeting trump as you mentioned

the interests align these are the targets of of the u.s state department who happens to be funding them they are mercenary media for the state now what now i'm going to i want to mention two aspects of this scandal because it's this plays out everywhere but this one it's just it it's it's simultaneously clean and dirty enough that i feel like it's just an anecdote everyone should remember forever one directly on u.s politics and targeting trump as you mentioned

the interests align these are the targets of of the u.s state department who happens to be funding them they are mercenary media for the state now what now i'm going to i want to mention two aspects of this scandal because it's this plays out everywhere but this one it's just it it's it's simultaneously clean and dirty enough that i feel like it's just an anecdote everyone should remember forever one directly on u.s politics and targeting trump as you mentioned

OCCRP got their Eurasia, covers like seven or eight countries that they're supposed to dig up dirt of corrupt politicians and corrupt oligarchs in those territories. And they're Eastern Europe, $20 million for their Eastern European operation. And so that covers Ukraine. And so what did they do in 2019? They dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani.

OCCRP got their Eurasia, covers like seven or eight countries that they're supposed to dig up dirt of corrupt politicians and corrupt oligarchs in those territories. And they're Eastern Europe, $20 million for their Eastern European operation. And so that covers Ukraine. And so what did they do in 2019? They dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani.

OCCRP got their Eurasia, covers like seven or eight countries that they're supposed to dig up dirt of corrupt politicians and corrupt oligarchs in those territories. And they're Eastern Europe, $20 million for their Eastern European operation. And so that covers Ukraine. And so what did they do in 2019? They dug up dirt on Rudy Giuliani.

And then that dirt ended up being used as part of the impeachment of Donald Trump in 2019. So this is the State Department funding mercenary media to then dig up dirt on high-profile U.S. citizens who, metastasizing into that very evidence being entered into the congressional record to successfully impeach the president of the United States.

And then that dirt ended up being used as part of the impeachment of Donald Trump in 2019. So this is the State Department funding mercenary media to then dig up dirt on high-profile U.S. citizens who, metastasizing into that very evidence being entered into the congressional record to successfully impeach the president of the United States.

And then that dirt ended up being used as part of the impeachment of Donald Trump in 2019. So this is the State Department funding mercenary media to then dig up dirt on high-profile U.S. citizens who, metastasizing into that very evidence being entered into the congressional record to successfully impeach the president of the United States.

So in that case, if there was no, you know, if there was no State Department USAID funding to OCCRP, they wouldn't have presumably had the capital to go out and dig up dirt on Rudy Giuliani. And then Americans wouldn't have been hearing, you know, that... These and they also, you know, wrote hit pieces on Paul Manafort and in his I believe his relations with Julian Assange.

So in that case, if there was no, you know, if there was no State Department USAID funding to OCCRP, they wouldn't have presumably had the capital to go out and dig up dirt on Rudy Giuliani. And then Americans wouldn't have been hearing, you know, that... These and they also, you know, wrote hit pieces on Paul Manafort and in his I believe his relations with Julian Assange.

So in that case, if there was no, you know, if there was no State Department USAID funding to OCCRP, they wouldn't have presumably had the capital to go out and dig up dirt on Rudy Giuliani. And then Americans wouldn't have been hearing, you know, that... These and they also, you know, wrote hit pieces on Paul Manafort and in his I believe his relations with Julian Assange.

But basically, you had this foreign policy blob apparatus who hated Trump and wanted to take him out. And just like state and USAID were paying OCCRP to dig up dirt on foreign oligarchs and foreign presidents. The net result, and we don't know if there was any sort of, and I'm not saying that there wasn't necessarily a direct agreement to do that. I'm not privy to that. But the fact is, is.

But basically, you had this foreign policy blob apparatus who hated Trump and wanted to take him out. And just like state and USAID were paying OCCRP to dig up dirt on foreign oligarchs and foreign presidents. The net result, and we don't know if there was any sort of, and I'm not saying that there wasn't necessarily a direct agreement to do that. I'm not privy to that. But the fact is, is.

But basically, you had this foreign policy blob apparatus who hated Trump and wanted to take him out. And just like state and USAID were paying OCCRP to dig up dirt on foreign oligarchs and foreign presidents. The net result, and we don't know if there was any sort of, and I'm not saying that there wasn't necessarily a direct agreement to do that. I'm not privy to that. But the fact is, is.

That is in effect what happened. The faction of the foreign policy establishment that most detested Trump and wanted him out, he was being impeached because of his foreign policy around Russia and Ukraine. And so USAID spending to journalists in Ukraine comes back to be used to impeach Trump.

That is in effect what happened. The faction of the foreign policy establishment that most detested Trump and wanted him out, he was being impeached because of his foreign policy around Russia and Ukraine. And so USAID spending to journalists in Ukraine comes back to be used to impeach Trump.

That is in effect what happened. The faction of the foreign policy establishment that most detested Trump and wanted him out, he was being impeached because of his foreign policy around Russia and Ukraine. And so USAID spending to journalists in Ukraine comes back to be used to impeach Trump.

Well, we're in a sort of. You can you can see I can you can feel the. The passion around this this week and people sensing how much of their world has been usurped without their consent by these institutions. But just to complete this on the corruption reporting project that gets half of its funding from the State Department, USAID and the U.S.