Posted on 02/08/2025 9:27:29 AM PST by Kazan
Just how bad were the workings of USAID, which is now in the process of being shut down by DOGE and President Trump?
Tucker Carlson has a long interview with Mike Benz, a former State Department cyber affairs official, who seems to know the granular workings of USAID activity, which was essentially used as a slush fund for Democrat priorities -- open borders, Black Lives Matters riots, Soros district attorneys, color revolutions, the drug trade, COVID, the big corporations, transgender surgeries, censorship and media bankrollings, missing Ukraine cash, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
Video at link.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that USAID, a purported humanitarian assistance organization for victims of disasters around the world, has turned into a Frankenstein's monster of corruption, swamp entrenchment, and far-left agenda advancement. After all, its budget has more than doubled under Joe Biden.
There are some interesting sections within the long interview -- a detail about how USAID became a monster because it's subject to far less control of its activities than even the CIA. And it's bigger, too.
Or that it bankrolls the luxury lifestyle of the D.C. suburbs -- which has often flipped Virginia blue. It's all USAID money financing all the national security "hobbyists" as Alexander Vindman's wife likes to call herself, within the region. The mansions are the aid of USAID. That's how they dish their aid, they're not about handing aid to the poor.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is the very heart of Obama's "fundamental transformation of America."
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Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz, former State
Dept cyber official, wrt workings of USAID activity:
<><>used as a slush fund for Democrat priorities —
<><>funded open borders, Black Lives Matters riots,
<><>Soros district attorneys, color revolutions, the drug trade,
<><>COVID, the big corporations, transgender surgeries,
<><>censorship, bankrolling media,
<><>missing Ukraine cash, and the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
Even overthrowing whole governments.
We will have to take measures to ruin these people, or they will keep doing it.
This combined with the “Consumer Protection” racket money which shakes down companies to ship tens of millions to Dem organizations is what kept up the Banana Republic.
We essentially have 30% of the population — 10% who are in on it and the other 20% who are part of the Democrat Plantation — using our tax dollars to steal our elections.
Benz is very nuanced in his responses — maybe we need to use these tools to keep cheap pencils and open markets?
Is it really worth it?
Do we want our POTUS impeached twice using our tax dollars?
Do we want our tax dollars used to fund the Muslim invasion and destruction of Europe?
Who exactly is “winning” here and what are they winning?
The release of the JFK, MLK, and RFK files will show that these agencies have been involved with the murder of at least one president. Will be time to further the willingness of our population to radically reshape them.
Meanwhile... the Deep State strikes back! On Blue Sky one user is promising to show the 2024 (recent) election was hijacked through fraud (election denying!) and a fake version fo Anonymous is targeting Trump and Elon for hacks.
So this fight has just begun and they are still funded for Q1 so we’ve gotten nothing done yet.
All they need are half a dozen “Liz Cheney Republicans” to stay in business.
It’s 2 hours long but well worth the watch.
Only bad thing, they kept started talking about USAID, and it’s connection with propagating BLM and the riots in Minnesota.
They would begin discussing it and then go off on another tangent. They did it several times and ended up never getting back to discussing it in depth before time was up.
USAID came to my attention several years ago when they were using our money to pay for abortions in other countries
Fantastic interview which everyone should listen to if you want to understand how much of DC and Fed.gov foreign and “security” policy has become a radical covert operation against Americans, and grift criminal enterprise.
Time to ruin these people AND their families. They ALL benefited, so they ALL need to PAY!!!
Looking at YOU BIDEN !!!
I listened to the whole 2 hours while at work today. Absolutely disgusting what our shadow government is doing. I’m livid. I noticed Mr. Benz was trying to make a case of salvaging many parts of it. I think it should be totally dismantled and start over with laws. No more interference in other governments and funding protests. I don’t like Putin but I can understand where he’s coming from right now.
Democrats AND Republicans have screwed us up big time.
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Slush fund for democrats to keep grips on the levers of power? Yeah, sounds like something they would fight for...
scary stuff. now we see why the FBI was working against Trump.
Mike Benz is difficult to listen to— he has long pauses that seem to be trying to rephrase what he is already talking about. Fearful? Perhaps. Some of it reminds one of the techniques used to help people get over early development stuttering problems. Just a thought- but it makes it very hard to get to the point of what the sentence is in the interview.
As you observed, several times— maybe every time the subject turned to domestic use of US Agency for Int’l Development money to fund BLM and... AntiFA, which Tucker was trying to get at—the subject tangented away. Not good interviewing by Tucker unless that is what he wanted to do.
It is still worth the watch, laborious as it is. Right now the real “interview” is on the published discoveries on X of the financial documentation and expenditures— these are exploding in volume and thus not ignorable. Idiots like Coons are trying to justify 20 million for and Iraqi- TV production of Sesame Street. Idiotic— like some kind of “hearts and minds” program which was not needed for the regular people of Iraq glad to be rid of Saddam and the Baathists.
I'm not a fan of Putin either. But if he says that Ukraine can never be part of NATO. Then we'll have to make a concession and agree to that.
FWIW, USA needs to withdraw from NATO today and leave it to the EU to lead NATO.
“they are still funded for Q1”
They are in the budget for Q1.
MAGA and DOGE will make sure they don’t actually get the money.
It can and will be repurposed for crushing the left—and there is nothing the courts or the Democrats in Congress can do about it.
After the diversions the USAID used everything the democrat party did is exposed a massive clean up operation needed no wonder Trump and Musk are working so fast.
Now what comes is exposing what isn’t known and the players involved.
The quiet ones are the dangerous ones.
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