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Mike Benz

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The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

And I think that the Trump admin deserves credit, even as we're unsatisfied with how big this is and how many problems there have been with Congress and judges blocking things. It took a lot of political capital to do what they did, and they were aggressive at almost every layer of it with some very big asterisks and exceptions.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

The firing of 14,000 people at USAID, the closure of the offices, the funding pauses was absolutely massive, both symbolically and in very, very real terms. The restructuring that Marco Rubio has led at the State Department is absolutely massive.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

The firing of 14,000 people at USAID, the closure of the offices, the funding pauses was absolutely massive, both symbolically and in very, very real terms. The restructuring that Marco Rubio has led at the State Department is absolutely massive.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

The firing of 14,000 people at USAID, the closure of the offices, the funding pauses was absolutely massive, both symbolically and in very, very real terms. The restructuring that Marco Rubio has led at the State Department is absolutely massive.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

Like 135 sub-agencies are being riffed, totally killed, the reduction in force totally laid off so that you don't even need the congressional approval because there's no job for fire people to go back to because the division doesn't exist anymore.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

Like 135 sub-agencies are being riffed, totally killed, the reduction in force totally laid off so that you don't even need the congressional approval because there's no job for fire people to go back to because the division doesn't exist anymore.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

Like 135 sub-agencies are being riffed, totally killed, the reduction in force totally laid off so that you don't even need the congressional approval because there's no job for fire people to go back to because the division doesn't exist anymore.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

Those include the Democracy, Rights, and Labor Bureau at the State Department, which is the number one coordinating web, I guess, in tandem with the International Organizations Bureau.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

Those include the Democracy, Rights, and Labor Bureau at the State Department, which is the number one coordinating web, I guess, in tandem with the International Organizations Bureau.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

Those include the Democracy, Rights, and Labor Bureau at the State Department, which is the number one coordinating web, I guess, in tandem with the International Organizations Bureau.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

democracy rights and labor is the like the main place at state for the ngo plex because they're all getting this funding and they're all coordinating with the state department getting the protection of the state department because they are promoting democracy as the state department wants them to do the rights and it stands for human rights because you know human rights violations in foreign countries and then labor is you know the unions and the

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

democracy rights and labor is the like the main place at state for the ngo plex because they're all getting this funding and they're all coordinating with the state department getting the protection of the state department because they are promoting democracy as the state department wants them to do the rights and it stands for human rights because you know human rights violations in foreign countries and then labor is you know the unions and the

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

democracy rights and labor is the like the main place at state for the ngo plex because they're all getting this funding and they're all coordinating with the state department getting the protection of the state department because they are promoting democracy as the state department wants them to do the rights and it stands for human rights because you know human rights violations in foreign countries and then labor is you know the unions and the

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

And this is where you get the rental riots and all this. And you can go online and see weeping videos from people from the Democracy, Rights, and Labor Bureau that they've been working there for 15, 20 years, and suddenly it's gone. And this is going to have a devastating impact. Of course, it never has a devastating impact on these things.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

And this is where you get the rental riots and all this. And you can go online and see weeping videos from people from the Democracy, Rights, and Labor Bureau that they've been working there for 15, 20 years, and suddenly it's gone. And this is going to have a devastating impact. Of course, it never has a devastating impact on these things.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

And this is where you get the rental riots and all this. And you can go online and see weeping videos from people from the Democracy, Rights, and Labor Bureau that they've been working there for 15, 20 years, and suddenly it's gone. And this is going to have a devastating impact. Of course, it never has a devastating impact on these things.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

A great example is the AP ran a story about – I think the initial title for it was – Trump's move to end USAID crushes cocaine programs dedicated to combating the cocaine trade. And the article is... the biggest self-owned you'll ever read.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

A great example is the AP ran a story about – I think the initial title for it was – Trump's move to end USAID crushes cocaine programs dedicated to combating the cocaine trade. And the article is... the biggest self-owned you'll ever read.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

A great example is the AP ran a story about – I think the initial title for it was – Trump's move to end USAID crushes cocaine programs dedicated to combating the cocaine trade. And the article is... the biggest self-owned you'll ever read.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Mike Benz: The CIA’s Use of NGOs to Coup Foreign Governments, and How They’re Doing It to Trump

It's all about how, you know, we have all this money that goes to Colombia and to Peru and to Bolivia to stop the cocaine, to stop drug trafficking in the, you know, Colombia's number one, Peru's number two, biggest coca leave, you know, cultivation in the world. It goes on to say, we spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year to cocaine is going to flourish.