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Mike Benz

👤 Speaker
5109 total appearances

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

But you basically have prosecutors being managed by this shady NGO who is effectively, you know, puppeteering these. who are dependent on continued funding for their election campaigns and continued election funding for their future careers. You know, what's, you know, AG, Attorney General, you know, the joke is, you know, it's short for aspiring governor because, you know, so it's a path.

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

But you basically have prosecutors being managed by this shady NGO who is effectively, you know, puppeteering these. who are dependent on continued funding for their election campaigns and continued election funding for their future careers. You know, what's, you know, AG, Attorney General, you know, the joke is, you know, it's short for aspiring governor because, you know, so it's a path.

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

You want to cultivate these donor networks forever. But the Tithe Center, which gets $27 million from USAID just on basically, you know, two grants alone,

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

You want to cultivate these donor networks forever. But the Tithe Center, which gets $27 million from USAID just on basically, you know, two grants alone,

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

You want to cultivate these donor networks forever. But the Tithe Center, which gets $27 million from USAID just on basically, you know, two grants alone,

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

That's what needs to happen. For example, you can't share the same corporate entity. You shouldn't be able to, you know, if you're, I mean, imagine if Raytheon, who is paid by the U.S. military to drop deadly, lethal, you know, munitions clusters on foreign countries and your professional job is killing people. And they were getting billions of dollars from the U.S. Pentagon.

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

That's what needs to happen. For example, you can't share the same corporate entity. You shouldn't be able to, you know, if you're, I mean, imagine if Raytheon, who is paid by the U.S. military to drop deadly, lethal, you know, munitions clusters on foreign countries and your professional job is killing people. And they were getting billions of dollars from the U.S. Pentagon.

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

That's what needs to happen. For example, you can't share the same corporate entity. You shouldn't be able to, you know, if you're, I mean, imagine if Raytheon, who is paid by the U.S. military to drop deadly, lethal, you know, munitions clusters on foreign countries and your professional job is killing people. And they were getting billions of dollars from the U.S. Pentagon.

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

And they opened up a, you know, a Raytheon, you know, and Raytheon started creating a new line of business for domestic countering misinformation projects where they monitor the Internet for COVID skepticism or, you know, climate change, you know, denial. Right. You would look at that and you would say Raytheon is getting paid by the military to kill people overseas.

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

And they opened up a, you know, a Raytheon, you know, and Raytheon started creating a new line of business for domestic countering misinformation projects where they monitor the Internet for COVID skepticism or, you know, climate change, you know, denial. Right. You would look at that and you would say Raytheon is getting paid by the military to kill people overseas.

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

And they opened up a, you know, a Raytheon, you know, and Raytheon started creating a new line of business for domestic countering misinformation projects where they monitor the Internet for COVID skepticism or, you know, climate change, you know, denial. Right. You would look at that and you would say Raytheon is getting paid by the military to kill people overseas.

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

And I know their grants, you know, their contracts with the Pentagon are not for that work. But they have more muscle and money to play with. They're being pumped up by steroids administered overseas. Exactly. I mean, you saw that with the Bangladesh case, too, by the way.

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

And I know their grants, you know, their contracts with the Pentagon are not for that work. But they have more muscle and money to play with. They're being pumped up by steroids administered overseas. Exactly. I mean, you saw that with the Bangladesh case, too, by the way.

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

And I know their grants, you know, their contracts with the Pentagon are not for that work. But they have more muscle and money to play with. They're being pumped up by steroids administered overseas. Exactly. I mean, you saw that with the Bangladesh case, too, by the way.

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

You know, the when the person who is now the minister of foreign affairs in Bangladesh after the coup, by the way, the the new the new head of state, there is a Clinton Global Initiative fellow. But the the the foreign minister was brought in by USAID for for formal training on countering misinformation. And, you know, who who led that?

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

You know, the when the person who is now the minister of foreign affairs in Bangladesh after the coup, by the way, the the new the new head of state, there is a Clinton Global Initiative fellow. But the the the foreign minister was brought in by USAID for for formal training on countering misinformation. And, you know, who who led that?

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

You know, the when the person who is now the minister of foreign affairs in Bangladesh after the coup, by the way, the the new the new head of state, there is a Clinton Global Initiative fellow. But the the the foreign minister was brought in by USAID for for formal training on countering misinformation. And, you know, who who led that?

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

It was a another, you know, State Department USAID contractor, a group called PolitiFact. It was the executive director of PolitiFact who does – who writes hit pieces on you and me that were conspiracy theorists for talking about January 6th.

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

It was a another, you know, State Department USAID contractor, a group called PolitiFact. It was the executive director of PolitiFact who does – who writes hit pieces on you and me that were conspiracy theorists for talking about January 6th.

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

It was a another, you know, State Department USAID contractor, a group called PolitiFact. It was the executive director of PolitiFact who does – who writes hit pieces on you and me that were conspiracy theorists for talking about January 6th.