Mike Benz

But Arabella Partners had this partnership network of hundreds of NGOs.

It was just a dark money fund that would disguise payments all throughout the ecosystem.

And it seemed like two weeks after the Trump administration designated Antifa, an international

terrorist classification for many of their cells in Switzerland and I believe Spain and one or two other countries.

Arabella just, I don't know if those two things are related, but I do think that it's interesting that, I mean, that's something on par with the Open Society Foundation itself kind of closing up and

I don't know if there were investigations that set that off.

I don't know if it was fear of investigations.

It's hard for me to not imagine the latter was the case.

But on the...

Just to circle back to the National Endowment for Democracy, as these votes are being tallied as we speak, it's interesting to observe that I don't know how this vote is going to go.

The problem with shutting down the National Endowment for Democracy is not Democrats, even though the National Endowment for Democracy is overwhelmingly Democrat.

It was spent the past 10 years doing political CIA adjacent black ops to kill Trumpism as a movement and kill basically every Trump aligned government on planet Earth.

And yet at the same time, you will see, mark my words, a robust amount of Republicans, number of Republicans on the floor today

who will vote to fund the National Endowment for Democracy.

Now, part of this is because they were very clever with the way they structured this.

When the CIA and the Reagan National Security Council first put this together, they made sure to

make sure everybody in the swamp got their cut.

So they set up the National Endowment for Democracy with four branches, two political cores, and then two other cores that almost correspond to it.

So the four cores are something called the NDI, the IRI, CPEI, and the Solidarity Center.

The IRI is the International Republican Institute.