Ted Cruz

Well, in the final days of the first Trump presidency, we're now learning that the deep state and its censorship contractors, desperate to control the narrative about the 2020 presidential election and the COVID-19 virus, turned this disinformation complex on conservative site Blaze Media in a, quote, proof of concept test is what they claimed it was.

According to the discovery evidence gleaned by the Federalist in a now settled case against the government, the Global Engagement Center backed a trial targeting Blaze Media and the free speech in its platforms, despite concerns at the State Department about possibly censoring an American company with an American audience in contradiction of the agency's foreign focus mandate.

It didn't matter.

The Global Engagement Center, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans that were supposed to be serving, was nominally closed in January of 2025, then effectively killed by the Trump administration last April under its final name, the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation Interference Hub.

Now, two years prior to the agency's demise, the Federalists and several other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Global Engagement Center and the State Department.

You may be asking yourself, why have I never heard about this?

Because the media didn't want you to know about it.

The lawsuit accused the government of actively intervening in the news media market throughout the Global Engagement Center.

to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press.

Well, guess exactly what press that was?

It was conservative media.

So if you think the Democrats in this midterm election are not going to turn this agency right back on to silence and censor conservatives, you're insane.

And if you think the Democratic Party isn't going to go AWOL and destroy America's Constitution right away, if they get power, you're also wrong.

They want to get rid of Trump and the vice presidency and anyone else that stands in their way.

And now they're saying it openly in interviews for everyone to see.

Welcome.

It is verdict with Ted Cruz, the weekend review, Ben Ferguson with you.

And here are some of the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.

First up, a Michigan candidate is now saying that in Dearborn, the people there may be sad because the Ayatollah in Iran was killed.

So therefore he doesn't want to talk about it.