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All the guests John Solomon had on his podcast are impressive of their experience and observations. All of it was worth my time. I'm not jaded yet - I'm still shocked at the details coming out.
My reaction to the content changed significantly when I reached Mike Benz's portion of the video.
"Censorship was absolutely vital to the beating heart of the conspiracy." (ransomnote: It still is)
Benz is able to put into words what our nation lost in such a way that it really hurts. It's not something to listen to (or read in my notes) before going to bed, because he makes observations like, "....the collateral damage of Russiagate is eternal in the chapters of history."
Benz describes more of what we lost, saying, "We had a culture for 250 years of free speech in the United States. We had an iron clad First Amendment and - there was no way that domestic politics could ever have broken that."
But they did break it. Benz proves they had zero evidence - "They were bluffing the entire time." (see excerpt below)
Even after we had a culture of free speech for 250 years, we almost lost everything, including freedom around the world, and the lives of all our children, should we survive long enough to see them die, and we almost lost it over nothing.
Russiagate Revisited: Uncovering the Truth
(excerpt) John Solomon Reports
July 30, 2025
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Mike Benz: This was done through the FBI, through DHS, through CIA, through DOD. There was no predicate before that. We had a culture for 250 years of free speech in the United States. We had an iron clad First Amendment and - there was no way that domestic politics could ever have broken that.
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All the NGO's we have around the world in Central and Eastern Europe, in Africa, in Latin America, the same assets we built during the cold war, could all be weaponized against the homeland under the presupposition that Donald Trump was backed by the Russians, so therefore every Trump supporter is actually not really a Trump supporter - that they're a Russian pawn, and this could justify mass censorship of tens of millions of Trump supporters by proxy. We almost lost everything good in the world because these people were bluffing.
And so the collateral damage of Russiagate is eternal in the chapters of history.
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Mike Benz: Let me make this completely clear. This is how much of it was ever substantiated - nothing, none of it. If you read the January 6, 2017 CIA report on Russian interference, all they allege is that Russian social media accounts, like Russia Today and Sputnik, had gotten far more engagement during the 2016 election cycle, and that they hypothesized that the Russians favored Trump, and so therefore Sputnik and RT were having an influence.
It was only after that that they came up with Russian bots and trolls. And here's how much they claimed to find, about $150,000 worth of the Facebook ads, half of which supported Hillary Clinton. None of that was corroborated. We don't know if those were just random Americans using a Russian VPN so that their IP address look like it came from Russia. That was a popular thing to do; to use VPN to pipe in from Central and Eastern Europe, or Belarus, or Russia, to mask your IP address.
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They were bluffing the entire time.
We have to build the skeptical anon mentality into our culture. Assertions must be backed with proof. 'Experts' have to be fact-checked. 'Public servants must answer to us.' Open discussions must return to our nation. Others must not be trusted to represent us - we have to fact check them too, and fire them when don't.