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Mike Benz

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The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

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.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

government has the formal yes, you know, yes, yay, yes, no about who they can bring on as staff. And they have to, you know, submit basically, you know, what they're going to do, you know, the year ahead. But on USAID.gov, the USAID website, before it went down this weekend, but I have all the receipts and I have all the PDFs on my social media feed.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

government has the formal yes, you know, yes, yay, yes, no about who they can bring on as staff. And they have to, you know, submit basically, you know, what they're going to do, you know, the year ahead. But on USAID.gov, the USAID website, before it went down this weekend, but I have all the receipts and I have all the PDFs on my social media feed.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

government has the formal yes, you know, yes, yay, yes, no about who they can bring on as staff. And they have to, you know, submit basically, you know, what they're going to do, you know, the year ahead. But on USAID.gov, the USAID website, before it went down this weekend, but I have all the receipts and I have all the PDFs on my social media feed.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

They have a whole document on this corruption reporting project and how amazing it has been for USAID's anti-corruption humanitarian work. And it shows the entry, it says $20 million, and here are the seven or eight countries they operate in. The next page has something which is just absolutely devastating to the concept of the firewall between our humanitarian aid organization and prosecutors.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

They have a whole document on this corruption reporting project and how amazing it has been for USAID's anti-corruption humanitarian work. And it shows the entry, it says $20 million, and here are the seven or eight countries they operate in. The next page has something which is just absolutely devastating to the concept of the firewall between our humanitarian aid organization and prosecutors.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

They have a whole document on this corruption reporting project and how amazing it has been for USAID's anti-corruption humanitarian work. And it shows the entry, it says $20 million, and here are the seven or eight countries they operate in. The next page has something which is just absolutely devastating to the concept of the firewall between our humanitarian aid organization and prosecutors.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

It's called, it's the accomplishment section. And there are four bullet points in this accomplishment section. Again, this is on USAID.gov publicly boasting about

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

It's called, it's the accomplishment section. And there are four bullet points in this accomplishment section. Again, this is on USAID.gov publicly boasting about

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

It's called, it's the accomplishment section. And there are four bullet points in this accomplishment section. Again, this is on USAID.gov publicly boasting about

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

hit pieces for hire mercenary media to call people corrupt call citizens call so the first line item is over a billion dollars worth of assets seized so they're basically saying hey great return on investment we spent 20 million dollars we were able to seize a billion dollars but you did that by paying journalists to dig up dirt on people what if the journalists got it wrong

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

hit pieces for hire mercenary media to call people corrupt call citizens call so the first line item is over a billion dollars worth of assets seized so they're basically saying hey great return on investment we spent 20 million dollars we were able to seize a billion dollars but you did that by paying journalists to dig up dirt on people what if the journalists got it wrong

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

hit pieces for hire mercenary media to call people corrupt call citizens call so the first line item is over a billion dollars worth of assets seized so they're basically saying hey great return on investment we spent 20 million dollars we were able to seize a billion dollars but you did that by paying journalists to dig up dirt on people what if the journalists got it wrong

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

We'll get to that, actually. That's bullet point four. But bullet point two was it was something like somewhere between 100 and 300 policy changes in different government and civil society institutions in these countries. So this USAID saying us paying for political black ops hit pieces generated hundreds of policy changes at the government level and, and at the institutional level there. Well,

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

We'll get to that, actually. That's bullet point four. But bullet point two was it was something like somewhere between 100 and 300 policy changes in different government and civil society institutions in these countries. So this USAID saying us paying for political black ops hit pieces generated hundreds of policy changes at the government level and, and at the institutional level there. Well,

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

We'll get to that, actually. That's bullet point four. But bullet point two was it was something like somewhere between 100 and 300 policy changes in different government and civil society institutions in these countries. So this USAID saying us paying for political black ops hit pieces generated hundreds of policy changes at the government level and, and at the institutional level there. Well,

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

We're presupposing all those are good. I mean, they wouldn't be calling them an accomplishment unless the USA thought they were good. So they have a catalyzing change they want to do to the policies of foreign countries. And they think the way to do that is to pay mercenary media outlets to dig up dirt on people. and then use that as the predicate to force through policy changes.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

We're presupposing all those are good. I mean, they wouldn't be calling them an accomplishment unless the USA thought they were good. So they have a catalyzing change they want to do to the policies of foreign countries. And they think the way to do that is to pay mercenary media outlets to dig up dirt on people. and then use that as the predicate to force through policy changes.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz Takes Us Down the USAID Rabbit Hole (It’s Worse Than You Think)

We're presupposing all those are good. I mean, they wouldn't be calling them an accomplishment unless the USA thought they were good. So they have a catalyzing change they want to do to the policies of foreign countries. And they think the way to do that is to pay mercenary media outlets to dig up dirt on people. and then use that as the predicate to force through policy changes.