Louder with Crowder - USAID Exposed: Everything You Need to Know Featuring Mike Benz

00:00:00.000 *music* Our technological advancement as a society has outpaced our system for handling finite resources because now we are approaching infinite resources.

00:00:28.000 Nailed it.

00:00:30.000 I'm like really good at this stuff.

00:00:33.000 I run this board.

00:00:34.000 I'm the boss.

00:00:36.000 What if I ran for president?

00:00:38.000 I'd be like a super genius president.

00:00:40.000 I'd be like one of those baby geniuses from the movie President.

00:00:46.000 I wonder if there's a sale of Forever 21. Click Rumble Premium and join now for $99 annually or $9.99 a month to get the entirely ad-free experience and exclusive content from Lotter with Crowder, Nick DiPaolo, Mr. Guns and Gear, Donald Trump Jr., and an ever-expanding roster of content,

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00:01:47.000 Oh, sorry about that.

00:01:50.000 Speaking of neck injuries, how are you feeling, Gerald?

00:01:52.000 I'm okay.

00:01:52.000 Good.

00:01:53.000 I know you've been walking around all day.

00:01:55.000 It was my mustache hair.

00:01:57.000 Did you ever get that when you have your beard?

00:01:59.000 You get a mustache hair or something?

00:02:00.000 Oh, yeah.

00:02:01.000 Put your beard on this!

00:02:02.000 That's true on mid-food.

00:02:04.000 You just grab one on accident, you gotta trim it.

00:02:06.000 Clarence Thomas!

00:02:07.000 That's right, that was considered sexual harassment back in the day.

00:02:09.000 Hey, we have a lot to get to today.

00:02:10.000 We do have on the show special guest Mike Benz.

00:02:13.000 He is the, this is a very long title, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Technology.

00:02:19.000 And he is currently the executive director for the Foundation for Freedom Online, and he is the expert on USAID and the fraud that has been taking place and the money being funneled to things that you have known.

00:02:30.000 We are so far beyond the scope of the legitimate role of government.

00:02:34.000 I would imagine that every single libertarian has had a seizure in the last 24 hours.

00:02:39.000 And rightfully so.

00:02:40.000 Yes.

00:02:41.000 Rightfully so.

00:02:42.000 On this we agree.

00:02:43.000 So today we'll be talking about that.

00:02:44.000 USAID specifically, and laying out the case as to where your tax dollars are going and why this is completely under the legitimate purview of the President of the United States.

00:02:55.000 We'll be talking about how passports now, you can no longer label X. It's M or F or D or P or P or V. I believe.

00:03:06.000 I'm not sure.

00:03:07.000 What are you looking at?

00:03:07.000 Were you looking at pictures of P? You're looking at pictures of the D? No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:03:12.000 El Salvador is offering to take in illegals and U.S. citizens.

00:03:15.000 Not a big fan of that.

00:03:16.000 But there could be a deal to be struck.

00:03:18.000 And, yeah, you know, since yesterday, things have changed on tariffs.

00:03:21.000 So if at some point today you see this on YouTube, head on over to Rumble.

00:03:26.000 It's a live show, weekdays, 10 a.m.

00:03:27.000 Eastern.

00:03:28.000 Let me ask you, what is the worst foreign aid program that the United States has sponsored?

00:03:35.000 I would say the one where we knowingly gave South Americans gonorrhea. 1.00

00:03:40.000 It was pretty bad.

00:03:41.000 We've talked about that.

00:03:42.000 I know it sounds like a conspiracy, but Hillary Clinton officially apologized for it.

00:03:45.000 No whoops.

00:03:45.000 There was no whoops.

00:03:46.000 No, there was no whoops.

00:03:47.000 Absolutely on purpose, but the list is so long now that that won't even make the top ten winners.

00:03:52.000 That was not a whoops.

00:03:52.000 That was Hillary Clinton saying, let it burn.

00:03:54.000 They hired penis scrapers. 1.00

00:03:56.000 Yes, they did. 0.99

00:03:58.000 They actually did.

00:03:59.000 Somehow I don't want to mention that.

00:04:01.000 So, Captain Morgan, Josh Feierstein, February 7th and 8th, Spokane Comedy Club.

00:04:05.000 Yeah, this weekend.

00:04:06.000 Good to be here.

00:04:07.000 Let's go on to this, just so you know.

00:04:11.000 You need to separate the internet from real life.

00:04:15.000 So there has been more coping and there has been a worse meltdown, I will say, online in reaction to Trump from the leftists.

00:04:23.000 Probably the worst I've ever seen.

00:04:25.000 But in real life, not so much.

00:04:26.000 There really isn't nearly as much enthusiasm as it was his first term as it relates to the protesters.

00:04:32.000 That being said, there are still some people who are incredibly performative and this gentle thing wants to remind you that everything Is...

00:04:42.000 Okay, but it seems like it's not.

00:04:44.000 Everything's okay.

00:05:00.000 It's okay.

00:05:02.000 It's okay.

00:05:04.000 Everything's okay.

00:05:06.000 I don't think it is.

00:05:11.000 Guys, guys, don't worry, though.

00:05:15.000 The story has a happy ending.

00:05:16.000 He was immediately rebuked by his father and gang-beaten without mercy.

00:05:21.000 That's a happy ending.

00:05:23.000 That lady's mustache is coming in pretty good. 1.00

00:05:27.000 The hormones are working.

00:05:29.000 I think they're low on testosterone. 0.98

00:05:31.000 And this is something that actually happened, I believe, in New York.

00:05:35.000 They're protesting that hospitals now are not offering puberty blockers to children.

00:05:38.000 That's a real thing.

00:05:39.000 This is the civil rights cause du jour.

00:05:43.000 Puberty blockers for children.

00:05:44.000 Here is a black trans protester letting you know that trans people will not be separated from the LGBT umbrella, but I'm not entirely sure what this person is saying because it makes no sense and it's revolting. 0.96

00:06:00.000 Shut this entire city down! 0.91

00:06:04.000 Even Chipotle?

00:06:06.000 Tyler, scary.

00:06:07.000 Very nice.

00:06:08.000 Because what they will try to do, they will try to separate us. 0.81

00:06:14.000 They will kick the trans people off the bus. 1.00

00:06:17.000 They're kicking the indigenous people off the bus. 0.99

00:06:20.000 They're kicking our intersex community off the bus. 0.90

00:06:23.000 Our two-sphere plus family, they're kicking them off the bus. 1.00

00:06:26.000 They just want a membership LGBT bus. 0.96

00:06:28.000 Well, guess what, babe?

00:06:29.000 That LGBT bus, it's not going to have any gas. 1.00

00:06:32.000 It won't have any tires.

00:06:33.000 Y'all not going any far.

00:06:35.000 Or audio guys.

00:06:36.000 Because we are a community that is made and has been woven with the fire and the spirit of revolution!

00:06:47.000 Revolution! 0.93

00:06:49.000 Revolution! 0.93

00:06:51.000 Can we deport them?

00:06:53.000 Revolution.

00:06:55.000 So the people that are not here with us, we will take note.

00:06:58.000 Sirens.

00:07:01.000 First off, it's not a community.

00:07:03.000 That's in orbit.

00:07:04.000 Second.

00:07:07.000 Anyone else notice that they had the Palestine flags right next to the trans flag?

00:07:13.000 Okay, see how that...

00:07:14.000 To this day, this is an open offer.

00:07:16.000 Anyone there at that protest, I will pay for your ticket and all expenses paid for you to go to Palestine for two weeks and set up a protest.

00:07:26.000 Two days!

00:07:27.000 And you don't even have to take a bus.

00:07:28.000 I will pay for it.

00:07:29.000 Stephen will send you on a plane.

00:07:31.000 Right here.

00:07:31.000 Rumble Premium.

00:07:32.000 This is what you guys support.

00:07:33.000 We will pay for the trip.

00:07:35.000 For a group of you.

00:07:36.000 It'll cost us a pretty penny.

00:07:37.000 Please do it.

00:07:38.000 Please take me up on it.

00:07:38.000 You have to sign a waiver, though.

00:07:40.000 I am tired of the winning.

00:07:43.000 Because this is what's happening right now.

00:07:44.000 There's so much winning that people like that, they don't even know what they're saying.

00:07:47.000 Something about a bus?

00:07:48.000 Something about a bus.

00:07:49.000 And something about needing to redo the shocks. 0.98

00:07:51.000 They kicked off the gay bus. 0.97

00:07:52.000 They wanted to get on the gay bus, but the gay bus won't let them. 1.00

00:07:54.000 So they're going to take their tires or something. 0.98

00:07:57.000 And siphon their gas.

00:07:59.000 But look, the winning...

00:08:00.000 Just continues.

00:08:01.000 I don't know if you saw all this.

00:08:02.000 I'm sure you did see this.

00:08:04.000 With Canada yesterday, we were talking about tariffs.

00:08:07.000 So Mexico capitulated.

00:08:09.000 You kind of called it.

00:08:15.000 My prediction here, you see this with Mexico, I would be willing to bet that Canada... 1.00

00:08:28.000 Falls in line by end of the week.

00:08:32.000 Two seconds later.

00:08:33.000 With just hours to go before U.S. tariffs were set to take effect at midnight, news of a last-minute deal to delay a potential trade war for at least one month.

00:08:43.000 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke twice by phone today.

00:08:48.000 Trudeau says proposed tariffs will be paused for at least 30 days while we work together.

00:08:53.000 He says Canada is implementing a $1.3 billion border plan with a list of specific measures to improve border security.

00:09:04.000 And I'm not even Bill Kristol, and I got it right.

00:09:18.000 What does he do, Bill Kristol?

00:09:20.000 He's the editor-at-large of Bulwark.

00:09:22.000 Oh, that's right.

00:09:22.000 He also works there?

00:09:23.000 He worked for the W... I don't know.

00:09:25.000 He's one of those people who is entirely useless. 0.99

00:09:28.000 Timmy. 0.98

00:09:29.000 By the way, the exact same monologue from Colbert, from Jon Stewart, from Jimmy Kimmel.

00:09:33.000 Every single one of them said that Donald Trump caved before the end of the day, and he's taking off the tariffs.

00:09:39.000 Not one of them mentioned that Canada offered up billions of dollars in enhanced border security, which was the exact demand.

00:09:46.000 This is how you know they're not just uninformed.

00:09:49.000 They are deliberately misinforming you.

00:09:52.000 We're going to put together a supercut.

00:09:54.000 The exact same jokes, exact same sources, down to the one Wall Street Journal article yesterday about Donald Trump's tariffs.

00:10:02.000 Kimmel, Stewart, Colbert.

00:10:04.000 Same jokes about guacamole.

00:10:05.000 Be better.

00:10:06.000 Guacamole?

00:10:07.000 Same jokes last week about Jamba Juice, RFK. We're going to put together a supercut.

00:10:10.000 But not a single one of them informed their audience that Canada did exactly what we asked of them.

00:10:14.000 They hate you, the American people.

00:10:17.000 Are you getting the picture?

00:10:18.000 Okay, let's go to another win.

00:10:20.000 El Salvadorian president.

00:10:22.000 I'm not going to try and pronounce the name.

00:10:24.000 Agreed to a pretty unique arrangement as it relates to housing illegal aliens with the United States.

00:10:32.000 Here's Rubio, who I think has an unreceding hairline.

00:10:36.000 The president, in an act of extraordinary friendship to our country, knowing the challenges we face in the U.S., has agreed to the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world.

00:10:51.000 He has agreed to accept for deportation any illegal alien in the United States who is a criminal from any nationality, be they MS-13 or Tren d'Aragua, and house them in his jails.

00:11:06.000 That's pretty epic.

00:11:07.000 Yes, and it's actually this massive terrorism confinement center.

00:11:11.000 It can hold 40,000 people.

00:11:13.000 Oh, I thought we had a picture there.

00:11:14.000 Bekele even said that he would take in American citizens writing this on X. We are willing to take in only convicted.

00:11:21.000 There you go.

00:11:22.000 Only convicted criminals, including convicted U.S. citizens, into our mega prison in exchange for a fee.

00:11:28.000 Well, that's the fine print.

00:11:30.000 Not a big fan of, you know, American citizens because you can't deport American citizens.

00:11:35.000 But I understand the point.

00:11:37.000 By the way, health insurance lobbyists have offered to pay double to accept Luigi Mangione.

00:11:43.000 Luigi not happy.

00:11:46.000 They know how to deal with their gangs down there.

00:11:48.000 Yes.

00:11:50.000 Every single illegal alien not from El Salvador is like, please, no! 1.00

00:11:54.000 No!

00:11:55.000 No city of El Salvador, no!

00:11:58.000 Yeah, it's rated the least fun prison.

00:12:02.000 One star.

00:12:04.000 Most gang raped prison, though. 0.94

00:12:06.000 I mean, so there are trade-offs.

00:12:07.000 No, you can't even do that.

00:12:08.000 I don't think they can.

00:12:08.000 I think there's no time for gang rape.

00:12:10.000 They took all the fun out of prison.

00:12:12.000 They took gang rape out of prison?

00:12:13.000 Yeah.

00:12:14.000 Well, they do.

00:12:14.000 Well, because, you know, they want to demoralize you first.

00:12:18.000 They elephant-walk you from cell to cell.

00:12:20.000 Yes.

00:12:21.000 The gang rape at least builds some camaraderie.

00:12:24.000 Yeah, you find love, connections, none of that.

00:12:28.000 They don't even allow spooning.

00:12:30.000 Well, there's a lot of spooning.

00:12:33.000 Well, there was.

00:12:33.000 They're not allowed to enjoy it.

00:12:34.000 They're not allowed to enjoy it.

00:12:36.000 The second there's a boner, tased.

00:12:39.000 Tased, afuera! 1.00

00:12:41.000 They just have electrodes in case there's movement.

00:12:44.000 Hey, that guard looks...

00:12:46.000 This prison is no fun.

00:12:49.000 Now, my question to you is, how fast do you think the United States is going to be filling...

00:12:54.000 That prison with illegals. 1.00

00:12:56.000 I have no problem with... 0.97

00:12:57.000 Hey, if it's more cost-effective, send the illegal aliens here. 1.00

00:13:01.000 Again, the ones who are criminals. 1.00

00:13:02.000 Criminals. 1.00

00:13:02.000 The ones who are violent criminals. 1.00

00:13:04.000 We'll send them back to their own country. 1.00

00:13:05.000 I say right away, John Oliver complained that the process would take too long.

00:13:10.000 Not here.

00:13:11.000 What process?

00:13:12.000 Your wish is our command.

00:13:15.000 El Salvadorian prison.

00:13:16.000 They got an airstrip.

00:13:17.000 What?

00:13:17.000 No!

00:13:18.000 That's not what I meant!

00:13:21.000 We didn't like Guantanamo, so we went south.

00:13:23.000 It's the whole monkey paw thing.

00:13:25.000 You wished!

00:13:25.000 Comparing Guantanamo to El Salvador's terrorist prisons, it's night and day, dude.

00:13:30.000 It's night and day.

00:13:30.000 It's crazy.

00:13:31.000 I've seen the prisons.

00:13:33.000 I would stay in Guantanamo Bay for a weekend.

00:13:35.000 That's true.

00:13:36.000 You have.

00:13:37.000 I have.

00:13:38.000 I was right across.

00:13:39.000 I wasn't that far from the prisons, and we pretty much had the same quarters.

00:13:42.000 Let's go on.

00:13:43.000 This one is a lot of fun, too.

00:13:45.000 Donald Trump, President Trump, has made it very clear with this administration, and now it extends to passports, that there are only two genders.

00:13:54.000 And again, there will be a time in history when people look back and say, from like 2015 to like 2024, there was like 57 genders, I guess.

00:14:03.000 And then it went back to two.

00:14:06.000 It will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. 0.83

00:14:14.000 Confusion and anxiety for the LGBTQ plus community when it comes to the Trump administration's policies around gender identification.

00:14:23.000 The president declared there were only two genders recognized by the federal government, and those identities are determined at birth.

00:14:30.000 And now we are seeing changes to the U.S. passport application process.

00:14:34.000 I just got my new passport in the mail, and they changed the gender to male because of Donald Trump.

00:14:41.000 Man, baby! 0.98

00:14:42.000 So, yes, now there will be two genders on your passport, male or female, with one exception. 0.87

00:14:52.000 If you're Mr. Bill Kristol, your gender will be listed as Mr. McPenisface. 0.76

00:14:55.000 So that's an official policy.

00:15:01.000 We do make some exceptions.

00:15:03.000 There were a series of less childish installments as jokes, but we chose that.

00:15:09.000 Now, the Washington Post, this is one of those things, talk about finding common ground.

00:15:19.000 They're only allowing us to list two genders on the passport.

00:15:23.000 Now, when you're saying the same thing, just a...

00:15:26.000 Different tone?

00:15:27.000 There's no common ground.

00:15:28.000 We're saying, they're only allowing you to have two genders on your passport now!

00:15:32.000 We're not going to find common ground if you think that fact is horrifying, and I find it heartwarming.

00:15:37.000 In the Washington Post, published an editorial by Ms. Frizzle and Pierre Poiliev love child, Darren Rosenblum, and they wrote this, why the X on my passport matters.

00:15:50.000 It doesn't.

00:15:53.000 Agents know what to expect when I show my ID, and that's exactly what they get.

00:15:58.000 This person wrote, I lived with the M for over 50 years.

00:16:02.000 When in 2021, it became possible to change it, I didn't flinch.

00:16:07.000 Brave.

00:16:08.000 As a U.S. citizen teaching at a Canadian university, I crossed the border a lot, and an X not only felt more me, it made travel easier.

00:16:18.000 Lost the carry-on.

00:16:19.000 If it's even necessary to have a sex marker, X provides clarity for everyone.

00:16:24.000 It provides clarity for no one.

00:16:28.000 It's literally like, I don't know.

00:16:29.000 It reflects how people see me.

00:16:32.000 Research has shown that we all use shortcuts when identifying others.

00:16:37.000 With X on my passport, I pass through borders without any problems.

00:16:41.000 It's quick.

00:16:42.000 Not when traveling to Saudi Arabia, mind you.

00:16:44.000 Border agents know what to expect when I walk up, and that's exactly what they get.

00:16:48.000 X is efficient.

00:16:50.000 X marks the spot.

00:16:53.000 In this case, I guess X marks the spot.

00:16:55.000 But you don't want that treasure.

00:16:57.000 Oh, I hope it's not written on the back of the Constitution.

00:17:21.000 Just a little lemon juice.

00:17:22.000 There'll be no plundering from me.

00:17:23.000 You're safe.

00:17:25.000 For those on audio, that bit made no sense, but I make no apologies.

00:17:29.000 You can just watch, of course, on Rumble Premium.

00:17:30.000 And Gerald, didn't you say that you were actually having trouble getting your passport?

00:17:35.000 What's happening with it.

00:17:37.000 Down in the city of broken schemes Where banks prey on our heartbroken dreams But I found a light so pure and clean

00:18:04.000 American financing gave me a chance to be seen No hidden fees, no hidden fees

00:18:16.000 lines to find Just honest words That ease my mind In a world of shocks Where shadows lurk They gave me hope They did the work They saved my hope Just

00:18:49.000 one clear goal To bring the dream To every heart A place to live A brand new start USAID!

00:19:43.000 USAID! Not to be confused with you said.

00:19:49.000 No, I said.

00:19:50.000 No, Gerald said.

00:19:51.000 I've said many times.

00:19:53.000 We've said.

00:19:53.000 Gerald said that wouldn't work.

00:19:54.000 Because the way they write it, they don't put in the dots.

00:19:56.000 They don't.

00:19:57.000 They don't put in the dots.

00:19:57.000 It's very easy to say you said.

00:19:59.000 You said.

00:20:00.000 Yes.

00:20:00.000 But then it just becomes hearsay.

00:20:03.000 But it's USAID. So.

00:20:06.000 It's a childish program today.

00:20:08.000 Every day.

00:20:10.000 What?

00:20:11.000 Really quickly.

00:20:11.000 So it looks like RFK Jr. approved in a party line vote by committee?

00:20:15.000 Is that the final, final vote?

00:20:17.000 Oh! 0.60

00:20:18.000 He's in committee!

00:20:20.000 I imagine it's just he's out of committee.

00:20:22.000 Can we get an update on that?

00:20:23.000 No.

00:20:24.000 What?

00:20:25.000 It's committee.

00:20:26.000 Okay, that's what I said.

00:20:28.000 No, what?

00:20:29.000 I'm reading.

00:20:29.000 Thanks for the update.

00:20:30.000 I'm reading.

00:20:31.000 It says no, it's committee.

00:20:33.000 I said it's just out of committee.

00:20:35.000 Not that he, you know, is official.

00:20:37.000 Anyway, USH. Can I admonish your own?

00:20:38.000 No, I didn't.

00:20:39.000 I would appreciate it, personally, because people's on a roll.

00:20:42.000 Keep buying time until we have Mr. Benz on.

00:20:47.000 Thanks, Daddy.

00:20:48.000 What?

00:20:50.000 What was that?

00:20:52.000 All right.

00:20:53.000 So, look, this has been the top trend for the last, really, day and a half.

00:20:57.000 USH. Okay.

00:20:59.000 I'm going to, and we're going to have Mr. Mike Benz on the show here in just a little bit, who's really an expert in this, and he's broken a lot of these stories.

00:21:07.000 What you're hearing from the media is that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying to, I guess, tyrannically take over data.

00:21:15.000 No, what's happening is we are looking for fraud in government.

00:21:18.000 We are looking for inefficiencies.

00:21:20.000 And people's work computers, the stations where they work, those offices that may be engaging in said fraud or wasteful activity, Should be examined and should not be wiped before people can go in.

00:21:32.000 Let me, before we get into USA, okay?

00:21:36.000 We can find no common ground if we don't all agree that it's a problem, irrefutably, that the government, the federal government, loses $233 billion to $521 billion a year in fraud.

00:21:54.000 That's not just wasteful spending, that's...

00:21:57.000 No idea what's happened to it.

00:22:01.000 Half a trillion dollars a year in fraud.

00:22:05.000 Even if you're a big government democrat, I would imagine you don't believe it's the government's job to engage in fraud.

00:22:12.000 But if we can't even start examining that, well then we end up with a demagoguery that you see with USAID. So, half a trillion dollars annually in fraud.

00:22:23.000 Alright, let's start with that.

00:22:24.000 Then 97% Of all donations from USAID employees went directly to Democrats.

00:22:31.000 Have I set the stage?

00:22:32.000 Are you starting to get the picture?

00:22:35.000 Okay.

00:22:35.000 You may not have been super familiar with USAID until this weekend, but I would imagine you've heard of it by now.

00:22:43.000 It is the essential programs that USAID provided that kept my family and I fed.

00:22:50.000 As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a ball of worms.

00:22:59.000 AID is an essential instrument of U.S. foreign policy and U.S. national security policy.

00:23:08.000 This is a real bureaucratic mess, the USAID.

00:23:12.000 The money is being spent and shoveled to countries all over the world, countries that hate us, for programs that, I mean, you have countries where people are starving and they're focusing on, you know, DEI.

00:23:23.000 At the point at which you don't merely, like, if you've got an apple and it's got a worm, you can take the worm out.

00:23:27.000 But if you've got actually just a ball of worms, it's hopeless.

00:23:32.000 Okay.

00:23:34.000 Elon puts a fine point on this.

00:23:35.000 Yes, he does.

00:23:36.000 Really quickly, Elon Musk actually tweeted something out this morning, guys, if you can look at it, either last night or this morning, where he said he thinks the number's actually higher than the $521 billion.

00:23:45.000 I think he said it's as high as like 10%, which I think came out to about $700 billion.

00:23:48.000 And then he put another one plus trillion on waste on top of that.

00:23:53.000 On top of the fraud.

00:23:53.000 These numbers, I think, are going to grow the more we get into it.

00:23:57.000 Yes.

00:23:57.000 It's worse.

00:23:58.000 Absolutely.

00:23:59.000 And before we get to the specifics, where we can give you some examples of...

00:24:02.000 USAID. USAID is the perfect example.

00:24:05.000 It's the poster boy for fraud, waste, and government inefficiency.

00:24:11.000 And really, money laundering.

00:24:13.000 An entire organization that has no business existing. 1.00

00:24:17.000 You think Washington, Jefferson, Madison, you think they would have stood for this crap? 0.99

00:24:22.000 Wait till I get to the examples. 0.97

00:24:24.000 But as a quick refresher, let's look at the timeline.

00:24:27.000 And what USAID is?

00:24:29.000 Okay, so USAID is the United States Agency for International Development.

00:24:33.000 Their yearly budget is like $40 billion.

00:24:35.000 It was founded in 1961. It was supposed to be an independent agency.

00:24:39.000 Gets their guidance from Secretary of State.

00:24:40.000 According to its now defunct website, that part I like, here's the part I don't like, the description.

00:24:47.000 Tell me if you think this is overly broad.

00:24:48.000 We work together with individuals and communities, well that's everything, and countries globally to improve everyday Lives.

00:24:59.000 What?

00:25:03.000 Imagine that on Shark Tank.

00:25:04.000 Well, what are you doing?

00:25:06.000 We're improving lives.

00:25:07.000 Where?

00:25:08.000 How?

00:25:09.000 With individuals.

00:25:10.000 Okay, in communities.

00:25:12.000 All right.

00:25:12.000 In countries.

00:25:13.000 Yeah.

00:25:13.000 Improving their lives.

00:25:14.000 What do you do?

00:25:16.000 And we'll get to what they consider...

00:25:18.000 I know military people and veterans right now are watching this going, oh, that was on my evaluation report.

00:25:23.000 My NCOER, my OER. That's what got me a promotion, was that description right there.

00:25:30.000 There's a fear of accountability from the left.

00:25:32.000 And so if you set up the premise so broad that no one can call you on it, hey, guess what?

00:25:37.000 Start examining that, you're going to find some fraud.

00:25:39.000 And we have.

00:25:40.000 So here is, by the way, USAID's 2023 year-in-review video hosted by Fraggle Rock Elizabeth Warren.

00:25:49.000 As this year comes to a close, I want to share some of the progress we have made with partners around the globe to build a more equitable, resilient, and humane world.

00:25:59.000 Earthworm Jane.

00:26:00.000 This year, we rushed aid to tens of millions of people in 76 emergencies, including the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, the conflict in Sudan, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

00:26:13.000 We built coalitions to support countries experiencing democratic openings.

00:26:19.000 Drawing in $110 million from private sector and philanthropic partners to bolster reform efforts.

00:26:25.000 What about the other $39 billion?

00:26:27.000 We support Ukrainian businesses, farmers, and tech to help Ukraine's economy return to growth, even amidst Putin's brutal war.

00:26:35.000 On behalf of all of us here at USAID, thank you for supporting our mission to extend the reach of human dignity across the planet.

00:26:43.000 I wish you peace and joy this holiday season.

00:26:48.000 You know, nuggets, peace and joy this holiday season, humanity, dignity, a haircut like that.

00:26:54.000 You can guess 97% of USA donations going to Democrats.

00:26:58.000 What do you think that includes?

00:26:59.000 Do you think that includes actual human rights, freedom of speech, second?

00:27:03.000 No, no, no, it does not.

00:27:04.000 It includes gender identity and every single woke new cause du jour that you can insert. 0.73

00:27:10.000 Let me give you the timeline here because the left is trying, they're really hell-bent on telling you that Donald Trump is a tyrant. 0.93

00:27:15.000 Okay.

00:27:17.000 This is not an example of something being shut down.

00:27:20.000 This is an example of blatant insubordination when you have a government looking to save taxpayers dollars.

00:27:28.000 Let me give you the timeline.

00:27:29.000 Monday, January 20th, Donald Trump signed an executive order to pause foreign aid for 90 days.

00:27:34.000 Totally reasonable.

00:27:36.000 Monday, January 27th, nearly 60 USAID employees were placed on leave for directly circumventing Trump's executive order.

00:27:44.000 60 employees?

00:27:46.000 In other words, it was an executive order.

00:27:47.000 At that point, pause.

00:27:49.000 And he had 60 employees saying, no.

00:27:52.000 That's a mutiny, just to be clear.

00:27:53.000 According to Elon Musk on X, again, he's biased, he said, all Doge did was check to see which federal organizations were violating the president's executive orders the most.

00:28:03.000 Turned out to be USAID, so that became our focus.

00:28:06.000 Keep that overlay up really quickly.

00:28:08.000 I want you to see what he's responding to, right?

00:28:10.000 So he says, this person is supposed to have, there's like a thread of this, friends inside the Democrat Party.

00:28:15.000 This is very, very telling.

00:28:16.000 He says, talk to a friend who has connections within the Democratic Party, and he said the level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down the USAID is unlike anything he's ever seen.

00:28:26.000 That's what Elon is responding to, and it's like, Democrats are freaking out.

00:28:30.000 They didn't freak out about LGBTQ stuff.

00:28:33.000 They didn't freak out about anything like they're freaking out about this.

00:28:37.000 Pay attention to who is freaking out.

00:28:39.000 That is going to matter.

00:28:41.000 And Elon's like, We just simply were looking for the place that was doing the most, and it turns out it's USAID! Right.

00:28:47.000 And by the way, this is an organization.

00:28:49.000 We're not even talking about just citizens.

00:28:50.000 We are talking about the organism that is government and its function.

00:28:55.000 When people say, oh, tyranny, if I were to come in, and I do, on the weekend, right, I'll go to a moment, hey, where's this sketch that we were working?

00:29:01.000 I want to look through it.

00:29:03.000 I'm not going through your private stuff and asking for your private computer at home.

00:29:06.000 It's a work computer!

00:29:07.000 That's where the sketch is!

00:29:08.000 That's where the script exists, right?

00:29:11.000 Almost like you own it.

00:29:12.000 Yeah, it's almost like, hey, hold on a second.

00:29:13.000 Taxpayers, we own it.

00:29:15.000 Donald Trump said, hey, I want to see what it is that you're working on.

00:29:18.000 And by God, this is where they make their stand against a tyrant.

00:29:21.000 In my office of business.

00:29:23.000 Might as well have ended that review video with, don't worry about the rest.

00:29:28.000 Yes, exactly.

00:29:28.000 It's none of your business.

00:29:30.000 What else we did?

00:29:31.000 So then on Saturday, February 1st, yeah, February 1st, this Saturday.

00:29:35.000 The USA Director of Security was placed on leave for refusing access to Doge employees.

00:29:40.000 Think about that.

00:29:41.000 So Doge comes in and says, okay, we're going to look at what you guys are working on and see if it's efficient, see if there's any waste.

00:29:46.000 I will not!

00:29:48.000 Wait.

00:29:49.000 What?

00:29:49.000 No, you kind of have to.

00:29:51.000 You can do that?

00:29:52.000 Again, this is how disconnected they are from reality.

00:29:56.000 I'm imagining you're watching right now, listening.

00:29:58.000 You probably work in the private sector.

00:30:00.000 Do you get to tell your employer, I will not show up for my performance review.

00:30:05.000 Well, you're fired.

00:30:06.000 Yeah, easy peasy.

00:30:08.000 That's the review.

00:30:09.000 You're gone.

00:30:10.000 We need go no further.

00:30:12.000 Monday, February 3rd, Donald Trump addressed the situation directly.

00:30:17.000 And we'll get to the waste here in a second from the Oval Office.

00:30:19.000 The first term, though, USAID was something that you liked in some respects.

00:30:23.000 I love the concept of it.

00:30:24.000 Yeah, sure. 0.96

00:30:26.000 I love the concept, but they turn out to be radical left lunatics.

00:30:30.000 And the concept of it is good, but it's all about the people.

00:30:35.000 I love that he doesn't mince words.

00:30:38.000 Could you have a more clear example of, I've always been bothered by this, public servants.

00:30:44.000 Yeah.

00:30:44.000 These are public servants.

00:30:47.000 Their stand is against you.

00:30:49.000 Do you, hey, the government has the right to audit you, but you don't have the right to audit the government in any capacity, 500 billion, half a trillion in fraud.

00:31:00.000 You realize the government, it is no longer, it's nothing.

00:31:05.000 If not an abusive relationship, if the government can audit you, whatever it wants, and it can never be audited.

00:31:13.000 These public servants Are taking a stand against you because they believe they are above you.

00:31:19.000 You work in the private sector.

00:31:20.000 You have to deal with accountability.

00:31:21.000 We don't.

00:31:22.000 Who cares if there's half a trillion in fraud?

00:31:26.000 Pull it up.

00:31:26.000 Pull it up the quote from Elon Musk.

00:31:28.000 The tweet that I was talking about.

00:31:29.000 He's getting to the bottom.

00:31:30.000 700. He's like $700 billion a year.

00:31:32.000 Waste is at least 15%.

00:31:34.000 So another trillion plus dollars.

00:31:36.000 Yes.

00:31:36.000 If Musk is right, he's basically getting $2 trillion.

00:31:40.000 Out of our deficit.

00:31:41.000 We had a $2 trillion deficit or close to it last year.

00:31:43.000 There you go.

00:31:44.000 Balance the budget.

00:31:45.000 Done.

00:31:45.000 People said it can never be done.

00:31:46.000 It can never be done.

00:31:47.000 You could also never deport people.

00:31:48.000 Well, here you are.

00:31:49.000 You could also never go back to two genders. 1.00

00:31:51.000 Well, here you are.

00:31:52.000 This is the first stone they turned over.

00:31:55.000 I know!

00:31:56.000 It's like me with my yard and the rocks and the wolf spiders.

00:31:59.000 I'm like, the first one! 0.99

00:32:00.000 You little prick! 0.99

00:32:02.000 And they sent six young tech nerds. 0.99

00:32:05.000 To go and do this.

00:32:06.000 It wasn't like they sent in the Gestapo to go in.

00:32:09.000 Yeah, that's how they act.

00:32:10.000 They act like guys came in with AR-15s or M4s.

00:32:13.000 These kids are like, I think from like 22 to 27 years old.

00:32:16.000 There's six of them.

00:32:17.000 They got doxxed and now they're pissed off. 1.00

00:32:18.000 They're like, I can't believe they sent these guys in and Elon Musk's an idiot. 1.00

00:32:21.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:32:21.000 He's sending rockets to space and catching them. 1.00

00:32:24.000 Maybe he knows a thing or two about something.

00:32:26.000 He sends some tech geniuses in there.

00:32:28.000 They go in and they're like, you can't do it.

00:32:30.000 Here are their names. 0.99

00:32:31.000 Maybe we should make their lives miserable. 1.00

00:32:32.000 Right. 0.98

00:32:33.000 That's the left's reaction.

00:32:34.000 It's, I think, it's the first stone they turned over.

00:32:39.000 The very first.

00:32:40.000 The very first one, and we will get to all of the crystal clear examples, and you can come and let me know if you think it's a legitimate role of government as we get to them.

00:32:48.000 But of course, the left has been in an absolute meltdown ever since they have faced any kind of accountability here.

00:32:55.000 Whoever is here at AID, or at least witness firsthand, What is happening with this Elon Musk attempted takeover which will not stand?

00:33:06.000 This is something that's just going to make our country less safe and really shows the undermining of rule of law in our nation.

00:33:11.000 There are people right now who have HIV who are alive only because the United States is making sure of that.

00:33:17.000 Donald Trump says we don't care. 1.00

00:33:20.000 You go die. 1.00

00:33:21.000 We also know this is just the beginning. 1.00

00:33:23.000 If Doge attacks USAID today, then you can be sure they'll move on to another target tomorrow.

00:33:30.000 Good!

00:33:30.000 Who knows?

00:33:31.000 Maybe it'll be the Postal Service or the IRS.

00:33:34.000 You promise?

00:33:36.000 I already support it!

00:33:38.000 We cannot find common ground if we're saying the exact same thing with an entirely different visceral reaction.

00:33:47.000 He, Chuck Schumer, is saying if they go after an audit The USAID, USAID, they could possibly look at auditing with the IRS or the Post Service.

00:34:03.000 And I'm going, hey, maybe we can audit the Postal Service or IRS. Think about how much they hate you.

00:34:09.000 The IRS audits you! 1.00

00:34:12.000 You, bitch! 1.00

00:34:13.000 It audits you! 1.00

00:34:14.000 And they're terrified that you, your dollars could be used to audit them!

00:34:19.000 Is anyone else...

00:34:22.000 You cut the clip short, he went on to say, and who knows, they might even look into Senate spending.

00:34:30.000 They might want to know what we're doing in the Senate House.

00:34:33.000 They might go in the waxing maze and find out it's just corn.

00:34:37.000 Yes, yes, I think the agency that has audited Americans needlessly and just welcomed 78,000, sorry, not agents, employees, I think that one audit of the auditing agency is entirely reasonable.

00:34:56.000 You don't hate the left enough.

00:34:58.000 You understand this. 0.99

00:35:00.000 Let's go through the claims that have been made about this, and it's so asinine. 0.89

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00:35:21.000 None of it happens without you.

00:35:23.000 I'm sorry for losing my mind, but I guess I'm the only...

00:35:25.000 Don't be.

00:35:26.000 Can you imagine auditing the auditors?

00:35:30.000 No.

00:35:31.000 All right.

00:35:33.000 Here's a claim.

00:35:34.000 That they are making.

00:35:36.000 That it's illegal for President Trump to shut down USAID. As my colleague said, it's not only a gift to our adversaries, but trying to shut down the Agency for International Development by executive order is plain illegal.

00:35:55.000 It is illegal.

00:35:56.000 Here's the truth.

00:35:57.000 No, it's not.

00:36:00.000 And he's not trying to shut...

00:36:01.000 What he's doing is not shutting down U.S. aid.

00:36:04.000 No.

00:36:04.000 They're trying to roll U.S. aid under the State Department, cut funding in the workforce if there are inefficiencies, if there is some kind of waste, which we know there is, and for it to remain pretty much exclusively a humanitarian agency.

00:36:18.000 What he is saying is illegal.

00:36:20.000 What he means to say is you can never downsize any government organization ever.

00:36:26.000 That's illegal.

00:36:27.000 That's his argument, okay?

00:36:29.000 And they didn't try to shut it down.

00:36:30.000 Remember the timeline.

00:36:31.000 They basically did some executive orders, then went in to try to do some auditing, and USAID said no.

00:36:38.000 They're like, oh, there must be so much fraud here.

00:36:41.000 None of you can come.

00:36:42.000 10,000 people were told to stay home from work on Monday because, you know, I don't know, bleach, whatever the Hillary Clinton thing did to the servers. 0.99

00:36:49.000 We don't want you going in there when we're investigating you and deleting everything.

00:36:53.000 So that's all that's happened right now.

00:36:55.000 Here's exactly what happened with USAID. If you have a child, okay, and you said, you ever gone through this situation?

00:37:00.000 Clean up your room.

00:37:01.000 You go in, you go, oh, everything put where it's supposed to be?

00:37:04.000 And your son or daughter says yes.

00:37:05.000 And you say, open the closet.

00:37:08.000 And they say, no.

00:37:10.000 Did you put everything in the closet?

00:37:13.000 Don't look.

00:37:14.000 No.

00:37:14.000 Did you just stuff everything in the closet?

00:37:16.000 If you open that up, is everything going to come tumbling down?

00:37:18.000 Mm-mm.

00:37:19.000 So open it.

00:37:20.000 USAID refuses to open the closet, only we know there's likely fraud and potential sex trafficking in there.

00:37:26.000 So, Marco Rubio, who was now named acting director of USAID, confirmed this very fact from El Salvador.

00:37:36.000 Can it be reformed or does it need to die?

00:37:38.000 Well, that was always the goal, was to reform it.

00:37:40.000 But now we have rank in subordination.

00:37:42.000 Now we have basically an active effort.

00:37:44.000 Their basic attitude is we don't work for anyone.

00:37:47.000 We work for ourselves.

00:37:48.000 No agency of government can tell us what to do.

00:37:51.000 So the president made me the acting administrator.

00:37:54.000 I've delegated that power to someone who's there full time.

00:37:57.000 And we're going to go through the same process at USAID as we're going through now at the State Department.

00:38:02.000 I think there are some...

00:38:03.000 This is not about getting rid of foreign aid.

00:38:05.000 There are things that we do through USAID. Completely reasonable.

00:38:19.000 Humanity.

00:38:20.000 And I still don't know if it's USAID or USAID. I don't care.

00:38:24.000 I think USAID makes it sound like they don't do anything wrong.

00:38:28.000 Right.

00:38:29.000 They want it to be that.

00:38:30.000 USAID, but you said USAID. Yeah, I prefer those.

00:38:34.000 You guys can comment what you prefer, what you use.

00:38:36.000 Here's another claim.

00:38:38.000 That the left is making.

00:38:39.000 And this is the virtue signaling.

00:38:40.000 Is that USAID, they're doing God's work.

00:38:44.000 Come on, guys.

00:38:45.000 This is noble work.

00:38:47.000 So Amy Klobuchar posted this on X. She said, Shutting down USAID is not about efficiency.

00:38:54.000 It's about undermining America's global leadership.

00:38:58.000 USAID counters extremism.

00:39:01.000 Fights diseases and creates more markets for United States exports.

00:39:05.000 Hold on a second.

00:39:06.000 Those shouldn't all fall under one umbrella.

00:39:09.000 No.

00:39:11.000 It's like, you know, you're jack of all trades, master of none.

00:39:14.000 I don't know, but it seems to me that if you are really good at countering terrorism extremism, probably not a specialist in fighting diseases and opening up export markets for commodities.

00:39:27.000 You can't do all of this.

00:39:29.000 Oh, that's right.

00:39:30.000 Fraud.

00:39:30.000 She says this is reckless and dangerous.

00:39:33.000 Here's the truth. 1.00

00:39:36.000 She's an idiot. 1.00

00:39:37.000 She doesn't want you to find what's under the very first rock that we have turned over. 1.00

00:39:44.000 Like Toolman said, the department has become this rogue actor, to be clear, working against, not only being inefficient, but actively against American interests.

00:39:53.000 As Marco Rubio, most improved player, I would say, this last year, he laid it out quite clearly.

00:39:59.000 I mean, my frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress.

00:40:03.000 It's a completely unresponsive agency.

00:40:05.000 It's supposed to respond to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses to do so.

00:40:12.000 USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that they're somehow a global charity separate from the national interest.

00:40:17.000 These are taxpayer dollars.

00:40:20.000 I'm very troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what does this program do?

00:40:27.000 Who gets the money?

00:40:28.000 Who are our contractors?

00:40:29.000 Who's funded?

00:40:29.000 And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct the sort of mature and serious review that I think Fournier writ large should have.

00:40:39.000 Let me be clear.

00:40:42.000 President Trump asked for an itemized receipt and USAID said no.

00:40:48.000 Okay?

00:40:49.000 That's what's happening.

00:40:50.000 Rubio also posted this, I believe from the White House website.

00:40:53.000 He said, For decades, the United States Agency for International Development has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous and, in many cases, malicious pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats with next to no oversight.

00:41:07.000 And now that we see what's going on, it makes sense that they changed their original logo.

00:41:13.000 That was them letting us know.

00:41:16.000 Well, well, well.

00:41:18.000 Sam, you gotta be quiet about this.

00:41:20.000 Yes, and this isn't just hearsay, okay?

00:41:23.000 We're going to go through some examples, but Caroline Levitt did a great job. 0.98

00:41:27.000 She did a great job laying out just a cursory list of ridiculous USAID funding projects. 1.00

00:41:36.000 And here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have been taking a look, because if you look at the waste and abuse that has run...

00:41:43.000 Through USAID over the past several years, these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on.

00:41:49.000 $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces.

00:41:55.000 $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland.

00:42:00.000 $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.

00:42:04.000 $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. 0.97

00:42:07.000 I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do, to get the fraud, waste, and abuse out of our federal government.

00:42:20.000 Let me give you a few other line items that they may not want you to know about, and all references are available.

00:42:26.000 Link in the description.

00:42:27.000 $11 million.

00:42:28.000 For a Sesame Street workshop in Iraq.

00:42:32.000 They beheaded Elmo.

00:42:36.000 There's only a one show, so...

00:42:39.000 John B. Elmo.

00:42:45.000 $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala.

00:42:49.000 Which way?

00:42:49.000 $6 million for tourism in Egypt.

00:42:52.000 Hold on.

00:42:52.000 Time out.

00:42:53.000 Time out.

00:42:53.000 You have the pyramids.

00:42:55.000 Yes.

00:42:56.000 And you need help getting people there?

00:42:58.000 Yeah.

00:42:58.000 We can't help you.

00:42:59.000 Six million dollars.

00:43:00.000 Pyramids.

00:43:01.000 This way.

00:43:02.000 There's the Sphinx.

00:43:02.000 You want to come or you don't.

00:43:03.000 Smells like shit. 1.00

00:43:04.000 That's the Nile. 1.00

00:43:05.000 We don't advertise it, but there it is.

00:43:07.000 Wait, where are the pyramids?

00:43:08.000 Is it those giant things that you can see from space?

00:43:12.000 They also gave an undisclosed amount.

00:43:15.000 To Nina Jankiewicz, remember?

00:43:16.000 The censorship czar, the misinformation czar.

00:43:20.000 USA helped fund Jankiewicz's censorship efforts at UK Center for Information Resilience.

00:43:25.000 You can go read anything that this broad writes.

00:43:27.000 I wish I loved anything as much as she loves silencing free speech.

00:43:31.000 Also, pretty interesting, at least a million dollars to Wuhan gain-of-function research.

00:43:38.000 Wait a minute.

00:43:38.000 Now you'll hear the left say, no, no, no, that didn't happen, that's a myth.

00:43:41.000 Okay, let me just sort of show you how this funnel works. 0.93

00:43:43.000 The money was funneled from...

00:43:45.000 Taxpayer, to USAID, to UC Davis, to the EcoHealth Alliance, to the Wuhan University and Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:43:52.000 Do me a favor, because you said at least.

00:43:54.000 I've seen another number floating around.

00:43:55.000 It may not be accurate, so I trust our guys.

00:43:57.000 But there was a number, I think, around $50 to $53 million.

00:44:00.000 We weren't able to confirm it.

00:44:02.000 Keep in mind, this is without us being able to do an audit, because they said no.

00:44:07.000 So, your guess is as good as mine.

00:44:11.000 As far as how bad the fraud is.

00:44:14.000 And you know what's so interesting, too?

00:44:15.000 This is a guy who I just really can't stand because he does the whole, I used to be a Republican butt thing, and I don't understand what purpose he serves.

00:44:21.000 And I don't want to question God's judgment in creating a human being, but...

00:44:25.000 Bill Kristol...

00:44:27.000 He was the guy animating that comic book down in South America, Gash Girl.

00:44:36.000 Bill Kristol tweeted this out or posted this.

00:44:37.000 He said, the deep state is preferable to the Trump state.

00:44:40.000 Now, that may be because...

00:44:43.000 I've seen nothing that has reassured me or that has changed my mind that he shouldn't have been president.

00:44:53.000 I don't know how that happened, but...

00:44:55.000 We've got to have better security.

00:44:57.000 We do have to have better security.

00:44:58.000 We found out $2 million, so the deep state is preferable to the Trump state.

00:45:01.000 Bill Kristol.

00:45:02.000 Not the one who does impressions.

00:45:04.000 Not the Oscar host.

00:45:05.000 Bill Kristol, the professional talking head.

00:45:07.000 Well, now we know that $2 million in U.S. aid funds went directly to his Defending Democracy Together Institute.

00:45:15.000 He is the director there, Mr. Bill Kristol. 0.93

00:45:18.000 So what you mean is that, okay, the deep state that funnels you money for being useless...

00:45:22.000 It's back.

00:45:25.000 It's taking over the executive branch, which is bad.

00:45:27.000 Okay, that's enough.

00:45:29.000 Oh, finally.

00:45:30.000 Thank you, Mr. Yeah, I think he's...

00:45:32.000 I think he's talking to you, Mr. Crystal.

00:45:34.000 I think... 1.00

00:45:36.000 And if you get raped by a pack of n****s, it'll be your fault. 1.00

00:45:42.000 And by the way, it's indirectly going to Defending Democracy Together Institute. 1.00

00:45:46.000 Indirectly, not directly.

00:45:47.000 Admonish me, because I had a lot to navigate there.

00:45:49.000 Indirectly.

00:45:53.000 Indirectly.

00:45:53.000 You had a lot of heads in your space.

00:45:55.000 That only pisses me off more.

00:45:57.000 It is a little bit more.

00:45:58.000 It's almost like they're trying to hide it.

00:45:59.000 It's money indirectly.

00:46:00.000 It indirectly went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:46:03.000 And how could Fauci legally sit before Congress and say, no, we're not funding any research?

00:46:08.000 That's how.

00:46:08.000 How about this?

00:46:09.000 My opinion, you can comment if you think that this is too hardline, is that whether directly or indirectly, no taxpayer dollars should go to Bill Kristol in any capacity.

00:46:23.000 Yes!

00:46:24.000 Some?

00:46:25.000 None.

00:46:26.000 That's my opinion.

00:46:27.000 But that's me, Mr. Fascist Hardliner.

00:46:31.000 And here's something else that's pretty interesting.

00:46:35.000 Let's go to Bangladesh. 1.00

00:46:36.000 In August of 2024, USA-funded activists to topple the Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina.

00:46:44.000 And this person was replaced by Clinton Global Initiatives' Muhammad Yunus.

00:46:49.000 It just seems odd to me, and it's kind of odd when you go, all right, so there was basically some kind of a coup, and I see the Clinton name, and Bill Kristol's making money off of the same organization.

00:47:00.000 All right, and they won't let us get an audit in.

00:47:03.000 They won't let us see an itemized receipt.

00:47:05.000 So former State Department official Mike Benz talked about this at length, and we're going to have him on.

00:47:11.000 But the USAID program.

00:47:12.000 IRI poured State Department U.S. taxpayer funds into transgender dance festivals, into a whole slew of, you know, sort of woke identity events around minority rights and funding minority rappers sort of woke identity events around minority rights and funding minority rappers

00:47:36.000 ultimately culminating in throngs of street protests that forced the democratically elected prime minister to flee the country in a helicopter.

00:47:46.000 As a Clinton Global Initiative fellow, was named the new president, and they've canceled elections.

00:47:51.000 Ooh, it's the canceling elections part, really.

00:47:55.000 That seems to happen a lot.

00:47:56.000 I'm going to rule and not let you guys decide if that's a good thing or not.

00:47:59.000 Well, you know, they put that money into DEI in Serbia, and then in Serbia, I believe they elected their first lesbian official. 0.79

00:48:05.000 Oh, it worked, apparently.

00:48:07.000 Yeah, it's like 85% orthodox or something in Serbia.

00:48:10.000 I'm very surprised.

00:48:12.000 Wait, there was election?

00:48:14.000 There was election?

00:48:14.000 Wait!

00:48:15.000 When was there election? 0.99

00:48:16.000 Wait, gay? 0.99

00:48:16.000 Oh, no! 0.99

00:48:17.000 Wait, so this lady likes snatch? 1.00

00:48:21.000 We did not vote for that.

00:48:23.000 Wow, she's just like me.

00:48:25.000 Yes.

00:48:26.000 She speaks my language.

00:48:28.000 We are the same.

00:48:30.000 So this is what we're dealing with.

00:48:32.000 And it's not just USAID. Like we said, it's the first stone that we turned over.

00:48:36.000 It is a government entity that should not exist, need not exist.

00:48:40.000 Their mission is overly broad.

00:48:42.000 They aren't actually effectively carrying out said mission, and they aren't allowing an audit to be performed, and they're refusing to provide itemized receipts.

00:48:51.000 And all of this is because they are taking their moral stand.

00:48:55.000 But let's be clear, it's not against President Donald Trump.

00:48:57.000 They're taking their stand against you.

00:49:00.000 right now.

00:49:01.000 So for USAID, I want you to know all eyes are on you.

00:49:04.000 Yeah, they throw our money straight in the septic tank, but time to clean the house, you see.

00:49:12.000 Doja's ending USAID.

00:49:15.000 Yeah, Doja's ending USAID.

00:49:19.000 Yeah, it's basically a money laundering think tank.

00:49:27.000 Clean it up and close it now.

00:49:30.000 Doja's ending all of that doo-doo. 1.00

00:49:33.000 Yeah, Doja's making them all cry. 0.99

00:49:37.000 There's the zag. 0.96

00:49:43.000 Now, we do, I believe we have our guest on the line.

00:49:46.000 I just want to be clear because his titles are long.

00:49:49.000 It is.

00:49:50.000 But he's been diving into all things USAID. If you've been actually following the story, you may not know this is...

00:49:56.000 The originator of a lot of this information.

00:49:58.000 So this man was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Technology for the State Department.

00:50:05.000 And he was appointed by Donald Trump.

00:50:06.000 This was during the first term.

00:50:08.000 He negotiated U.S. policy on Internet diplomacy issues.

00:50:12.000 And then after that, he founded the Foundation for Freedom Online.

00:50:16.000 It's a watchdog group.

00:50:19.000 Largely dedicated to free speech and an open internet, and he has been doing a lot of the digging here.

00:50:24.000 Let's welcome to the show Mr. Mike Benz.

00:50:32.000 Mr. Benz, can you hear me, see me, sir?

00:50:35.000 Welcome to be here.

00:50:36.000 Well, sorry.

00:50:36.000 Hold on.

00:50:37.000 Let me redo this.

00:50:38.000 Glad to have you here.

00:50:39.000 I meant to say welcome or glad to have you, and I screwed it up.

00:50:42.000 Glad to be had.

00:50:44.000 Okay, there you go.

00:50:44.000 Well, careful.

00:50:46.000 Don't threaten me with a good time.

00:50:47.000 So, you've been talking about this at length.

00:50:50.000 Let me ask you, what spurred you looking into USAID? I mean, I know, obviously, you were in the Trump administration, but you have been like a dog on a bone on this.

00:50:59.000 Do you think this is even the most egregious example in government, or just one that is going to be pretty easy to prove?

00:51:05.000 I do think it's actually the most egregious, or certainly in the top two or three in government.

00:51:12.000 But we're still at the very tip of the iceberg as to why, I think, as this onion gets peeled more and more.

00:51:19.000 What you're going to see is something that's actually central to almost all rogue aspects of the way American foreign policy has been run and the way that the foreign policy establishment has been weaponized against domestic politics.

00:51:34.000 The big no-no is that there's supposed to be a firewall between what the CIA does abroad and what it does at home.

00:51:40.000 This is the thing the CIA got in trouble for in the 60s and 70s.

00:51:43.000 The Pentagon is not supposed to be doing stuff at home.

00:51:46.000 The State Department is not supposed to be doing stuff at home.

00:51:49.000 And USAID is not supposed to be doing stuff at home.

00:51:50.000 Can I ask you about that specifically?

00:51:52.000 Because some people didn't fully understand.

00:51:55.000 I want you to make it really clear. 0.98

00:51:56.000 When you posted on X that USAID is how the CIA gets shit done.

00:52:01.000 Can you explain that to people who may not be initiated here? 0.88

00:52:04.000 Yes.

00:52:05.000 The CIA liaises with assets of the U.S. government that are capacity-built in order to instrumentalize them for one of two purposes, to advance U.S. national security interests or to advance U.S. national interest.

00:52:20.000 Basically, you can think of that like keeping us safe or making us wealthier.

00:52:24.000 For example, if we need the oil in a country, we might do it out of national interest.

00:52:29.000 If we need to topple a government to install a military base there because the prime minister is recalcitrant, then we would say that would be for national security purposes.

00:52:38.000 But the point is that the CIA operates under a plausible deniability cloak.

00:52:45.000 It was originally supposed to be parked at the State Department directly in 1948 when this was all being constructed.

00:52:52.000 George Kennan's idea was to have, rather than a CIA operations division, have a State Department Bureau of Political Warfare.

00:53:00.000 But that did not sync well with the UN Declaration on Human Rights, and so they made it a spy agency. 0.64

00:53:06.000 And then the CIA started getting in trouble in the 1960s and 70s with all the scandals of what they were doing, and it moved a substantial amount of its operations into USAID, the humanitarian group.

00:53:19.000 It was a sort of NGO plausible deniability layer for the intelligence world.

00:53:24.000 And USAID is a swing player because it's an independent agency, so what it does is it capacity builds the assets that the CIA then works with.

00:53:34.000 So you think of it as three stools when it comes to advancing U.S. national interests abroad.

00:53:40.000 State Department sets the policy.

00:53:43.000 The CIA will do the operations of telling our assets on the ground what to do and working with them.

00:53:52.000 But none of that works unless those assets are capacity built, meaning they're given money.

00:53:58.000 They're given resources.

00:53:59.000 They're able to beef up their staff.

00:54:01.000 What we do whenever we go into a country is we do what's called a baseline assessment.

00:54:05.000 We look at all of our assets on the ground.

00:54:07.000 We look at how that syncs with our intended foreign policy in the region.

00:54:11.000 We say, okay, what do we have versus what do we need?

00:54:13.000 And USAID plays the lion's share role in plunging that gap to provide those...

00:54:23.000 For example, if we have...

00:54:25.000 14 NGOs in the area, and they only have a little bit of money.

00:54:30.000 USAID will find ways to funnel money so that we, if the State Department says we need 50, or if the CIA says we need 50, USAID will find a way to multiply those institutions, and it will run the money to them.

00:54:43.000 And so they really are, you know, you can't have operations without financing for it.

00:54:47.000 And so USAID plays that role for DOD, for CIA, and for state.

00:54:53.000 And that's why they've become, Really the most important institution.

00:54:57.000 You know, in American foreign policy.

00:55:01.000 My follow-up question is, and I know this isn't obviously your framing or fault, you say independent organization.

00:55:07.000 I don't think that means what people think it means at this point.

00:55:11.000 Like, we use this term NGO, and I know people will try and factor me where I say this has no legitimate role in government.

00:55:17.000 Well, it's not a government organization.

00:55:18.000 It gets its funding from taxpayers.

00:55:20.000 Can we be clear about this?

00:55:22.000 This is the problem that we face.

00:55:24.000 This is the swamp, right?

00:55:26.000 Oh, yeah, they don't mean independent from the government.

00:55:28.000 They mean independent from us.

00:55:29.000 Right, yes.

00:55:30.000 You know, it's an unauditable black hole.

00:55:34.000 This is the sort of thing that our former Trump-1 attorney general made his bones doing.

00:55:41.000 When Bill Barr started his career in the CIA and then was put by the CIA through Knight Law School and then worked there for seven years, his marquee job was the CIA's liaison to Congress.

00:55:54.000 In order to block congressional oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s.

00:56:01.000 And it was heralded by the CIA for blocking Congress's ability to oversee the agency.

00:56:07.000 And that is what you see today inside of USAID. And one of the reasons that it's so impossible to get to what they do.

00:56:14.000 And they run an unbelievable web of money laundering and shell companies.

00:56:20.000 I've mentioned this.

00:56:22.000 But, you know, just take one example of USAID's building of the fake social media website called Zunzanillo, which was at a time when Cuba, and look, I hate that I'm not a fan of the Cuban, you know, the Cuban government.

00:56:39.000 Of course not.

00:56:40.000 But there's a question of what level of dirty tricks do you go to in order to topple something that's authoritarian.

00:56:47.000 But at the time in 2014, Cuba had banned U.S. social media.

00:56:52.000 So Twitter was not allowed.

00:56:53.000 And the U.S. foreign policy establishment was gassed up over the success of the Arab Spring and the ability of the CIA and State Department to use Facebook and Twitter to angry up populations and get them to form smart mobs and take to the streets and overthrow governments.

00:57:08.000 So they wanted to do a Cuban Spring, but the problem was they had no social media there.

00:57:12.000 So U.S. aid was tasked with creating a...

00:57:15.000 A fake Cuban version of Twitter.

00:57:18.000 And so they took, in order to do this, they took humanitarian funds that were earmarked for Pakistan and redirected them through a web of shell companies and outside contractors to two Cuban businessmen so it would look like it was coming directly from Cuba.

00:57:33.000 And in the internal documents that were leaked at USAID, the explicit plan was to lure people in using algorithms favoring Sports, music, and hurricane updates.

00:57:43.000 And then once they hit a critical mass of subscribers to the site, they would switch the algorithm to favor anti-government sentiment, street revolutions, and the forming of so-called smart mobs to take to the streets.

00:57:56.000 At the same time, USAID was paying rap groups, one in particular called the San Isidro movement, was taking direct money from USAID, who was paying them to write anthems about how to overthrow the government so it could be played.

00:58:09.000 to the youth movement.

00:58:10.000 Meanwhile, USAID's kissing cousin, the National Endowment for Democracy, was writing white papers in the background, doing their baseline assessment of the ethnic composition of Cuba, and what it figured out in a 2009 memo that USAID then carried over was that the Afro-Cuban community was underrepresented in the Cuban government, so they could be And also, they're not very good at it.

00:58:39.000 If they were trying to lure people to Cuban social media, they did sports hurricane updates.

00:58:44.000 They should have just shown them the women. 0.97

00:58:46.000 They have a natural resource there.

00:58:48.000 We've seen them here.

00:58:49.000 We've all seen Eva Mendes, correct?

00:58:51.000 And this is the situation, too.

00:58:52.000 People will say, I'm an extremist, where I say, look, the policy on Cuba should be either the United States goes in and liberates these people, or not.

00:59:00.000 People who will say that's an extremist fear, I'm not saying that we do, I'm saying we need to be clear in our position, will at the same time defend what is obfuscated and what is opaque, which is effectively, like you're talking about, a soft coup and trying to foment, basically, racial hatred at that point, which wouldn't be the right way for them to go about it anyway.

00:59:18.000 And no one in this office is hated more than Che Guevara.

00:59:21.000 We were banned for a shirt, making fun of him.

00:59:23.000 I know Gerald does have a question, and I know you have a hard out.

00:59:26.000 I wanted to get to Brazil here because we have a lot of people watching, but Gerald, you had a question for Mr. Benz.

00:59:31.000 Yeah, Mike, so I've seen a lot of people talking about different programs within USAID, and I'm not sure which programs.

00:59:37.000 People that are posting are necessarily saying stuff that's true or if they're making some incorrect connections.

00:59:42.000 But you mentioned money laundering.

00:59:43.000 And one of the connections that I've seen people trying to make is basically back through from U.S. taxes to U.S. aid to NGOs and then somehow finding its way back into campaigns, PACs, and Dems.

00:59:54.000 Is there a connection there?

00:59:55.000 And is that the biggest money laundering kind of example you can give us?

00:59:59.000 Or is there something else?

01:00:00.000 Oh, there's a huge connection there.

01:00:02.000 Yeah, this is one of the ways that the foreign policy establishment manipulates domestic politics, is they take the huge glut of money that we have to manage the American empire abroad, but then if a domestic candidate or domestic political movement is threatening to change U.S. foreign policy, like Donald Trump has been and currently is, They redirect those funds almost like white blood cells in an immune system to descend on the internal.

01:00:30.000 They call these the domestic drivers of foreign policy in order to root those out.

01:00:35.000 So just a few examples off the top, you have the Tide Center.

01:00:40.000 The Tide Center is basically the clearinghouse for Black Lives Matter. 0.99

01:00:44.000 It's also the fiscal sponsor.

01:00:46.000 of the group that controls the, quote, Soros prosecutors.

01:00:50.000 You know how Soros has paid for the campaigns of 30% now of America's prosecutors.

01:00:57.000 And so basically everyone who lives in a big metropolitan city is under a Soros prosecutor.

01:01:02.000 Well, Soros also funds the...

01:01:05.000 The group that not just the campaign, but the actual management of the prosecutors once they're in office, make sure they're in sync with the donor demands, including this group tells them who to prosecute, who not to prosecute, how to structure it, gives them the social media messages, writes their press releases, basically manages them like a talent agency.

01:01:25.000 And that group's fiscal sponsor is the Tide Center.

01:01:27.000 USA gave the Tide Center $27 million.

01:01:31.000 And some of these grants are incredible.

01:01:34.000 For example, USA deputizes the Tide Center to, quote, secure concrete commitments from foreign governments on behalf of the U.S. government.

01:01:43.000 So they are pumping up domestic political institutions and then deputizing them to act as a long arm of the U.S. government to actually negotiate U.S. foreign policy abroad, Economic empires abroad.

01:02:02.000 For example, Soros Inc.

01:02:04.000 is not just the Open Society Foundation, but it's the web of private portfolio companies that profit From the energy resources and economic engine in foreign countries.

01:02:15.000 And all the while we have been told the danger of Donald Trump is he's sowing mistrust in institutions.

01:02:21.000 I almost think it's the fault of the institutions.

01:02:23.000 Also, I'm very confused.

01:02:24.000 I'm not saying how any of this helps people with AIDS in Africa.

01:02:27.000 But maybe we can answer that more.

01:02:29.000 We're going to continue this honorable premium.

01:02:31.000 People can click that.

01:02:32.000 Of course, Mr. Mike Benz.

01:02:33.000 I have a question for you from a Brazilian friend of ours, a journalist, Alan DeSantos.

Louder with Crowder - February 04, 2025

USAID Exposed: Everything You Need to Know Featuring Mike Benz

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