In this episode of Stay Free With Russell Brand, Russell talks about USAID and how it has been used to influence international economic policy, military affairs and media, and the Ukraine conflict. He's joined by Don Jr, founder of Rumble, to discuss how USAID has been involved in the coup in Ukraine, and how deep state power has infiltrated the media and political system.
00:04:54.000Thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:04:57.000I'm actually very glad that you're here because we've got so much to talk to you about.
00:05:00.000Whether you're watching us on X where we are live or YouTube or our home rumble, we've got to discuss USAID and numerous aspects of USAID.
00:05:11.000How USAID has been used to influence military policy, how it's been used to influence media and how, in a sense, USAID is the sort of soft aspect of deep state power.
00:05:23.000We'll be talking about that at length.
00:05:24.000We'll be talking about the Ukraine war.
00:05:27.000I'm going to really be doing my best to care about tariffs I'm going to really try to.
00:05:32.000I can't make myself care about the imposition of tariffs.
00:05:36.000I can't see tariffs as some sort of...
00:05:39.000Phallus firing masculinity into international economic policy.
00:05:46.000But I'm going to try and see it that way because that seems like a sensible image system to vivify what I struggle with, you know, international trade.
00:06:29.000That's the other way you might know him.
00:06:31.000This page is unburdened by what has been.
00:06:34.000If that's legitimately how they've been doing stuff...
00:06:37.000You've got to share in their amusement.
00:06:40.000In my crazy country, the United Kingdom, it still remains a prison planet captured by deep state activists.
00:06:47.000Would you believe that even the BBC receives money from USAID? Let me know in the comments and chat if you were aware of that, of how...
00:06:55.000Look, I read a lot of content that talks about the new power of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and that being an expression and the emergence of new elites.
00:07:06.000What I'm fascinated by, and tell me if you agree with this, is that we are seeing the ongoing exposure of the sinew and cartilage of deep state power.
00:07:16.000And this USAID story, particularly how Mike Benz explains it, is a brilliant demonstration of the aspect of Trump and MAGA that surely anyone would back.
00:07:29.000Anti-globalism, anti-deep state power.
00:08:38.000They've tricked us into calling it USAID. Like, it does make you feel like it's a little bit of a charity.
00:08:44.000Yeah, a lot of people are very angry about that.
00:08:47.000Don't call it USAID. Even that's political now.
00:08:50.000Like how a mask became political during COVID. You're not wearing a mask because of microscopic aerosol viruses.
00:08:57.000You're wearing it because, well, this is what I believe in.
00:09:00.000So even the way you say USAID is politicised, that's astonishing.
00:09:05.000We've got incredible stories of how USAID was in...
00:09:09.000It was involved in the 2014 coup in Ukraine, how it's still relevant within the context of the Ukraine war, how it's infiltrated internationally into countries like our sweet country via the BBC. It's pretty bloody fascinating.
00:09:25.000As a matter of fact, let's have a look at what's going on at the DNC. It's their first DNC since a massive and humiliating electoral defeat, not just for their movement, but for globalism more generally.
00:09:36.000and they're responding to that, of course, through the medium of dance.
00:10:26.000That's a really interesting way to behave.
00:10:29.000Let's have a look at what else they're up to there.
00:10:30.000Before getting into USAID and tariffs, we're just going to dick about looking at what's going on in the DNC for a minute, just sort of as a palate cleanse.
00:10:38.000And we'll begin with the opening statements.
00:10:41.000Each candidate will have 30 seconds and we'll start with Dr. Quintessa Hathaway.
00:11:21.000What the DNC and the Democratic Party movement's attempting to do, it looks to me, tell me if you agree with this in the comments, is to sort of maintain the idea of a spirit of goodwill and good intention through things like literal song and dance, when in fact they became so separated from the interests of those they claimed to represent that their entire party and movement became theatre, i.e.
00:11:47.000the DNC is so captured by Corporate, globalist, commercial interest.
00:11:54.000And it's only a bulwark against that impression.
00:11:58.000It's only inoculation against damnation has been to pretend overtly that it really cares about minority cultural issues.
00:12:34.000Also, though, things weren't going very well when you were actually in power for the last four years.
00:12:40.000It was a diabolical catastrophe of government, particularly in terms of the interests of people who don't have access to the levers of power, which ironically seems to be the matter highlighted through that peculiar performance.
00:12:54.000Let's have a look at DNC officials explaining how to elect...
00:13:00.000How to elect leaders on the basis of gender.
00:13:04.000Now, in a way, it's like they've not learned anything from the last four years.
00:13:08.000Let's see if they even believe themselves in what they claim to believe in.
00:13:12.000The rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.
00:13:26.000With the results of the previous four elections, Our elected officers are currently two male and two female.
00:13:35.000In order to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.
00:13:48.000So again, this is what we have to do for this vice chair race.
00:13:53.000We have to elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.
00:16:11.000Yeah, Don Jew, you'll get additional content and stuff like that if you support me on Rumble Premium.
00:16:15.000Essentially, you get access to all of our content and an ad-free experience on Rumble, which surely has to be better, even though, ironically, it's an advert that you just endured there for me to promote it.
00:16:27.000Okay, now, ultimately, the vacuity of the Democratic Party...
00:16:41.000They were exemplified by figures like Nancy Pelosi who talked continually about compassion and for the children while it seemed somehow was simultaneously benefiting from potential knowledge gleaned from the various committees she sits on with regard to technology and the rise of her husband's stocks and shares.
00:17:03.000In short, they became so vapid, so hollowed out, so plainly governed by lobbyists and a donor class that they've become politically irrelevant.
00:17:15.000Here, they continue to double down on the idea that when it comes to oligarchal financial power, the trillionaire and the billionaire, we're supposed to believe in a dualistic system.
00:17:24.000There are good trillionaires and bad trillionaires.
00:17:28.000There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats who share our values and we will take their money, but we're not taking money from those bad billionaires.
00:17:38.000Those bad billionaires, in a sense, while that's simplistic, reductive and ridiculous, it shows you something important.
00:17:44.000Who ultimately has the moral authority to say, these billionaires are good, these billionaires are bad, this class of people, this set of policies are good or bad?
00:17:55.000If you don't believe in an absolute universal truth, any claim you make to right or wrong is either arbitrary or subjective.
00:18:33.000Part of that same story is the emergence of information about how the deep state functions and what the cartilage is between the deep state and commercial and international enterprises.
00:18:43.000And I believe the USAID story, I don't call it USAID, do you?
00:18:49.000USAID story demonstrates the connections between NGOs, charities and apparently philanthropic endeavours and the interests of the powerful.
00:19:50.000Known as zombie cells, these senescent cells are old and worn out and not fulfilling a useful function for our health, but they take up space and nutrients for our healthy cells.
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00:21:22.000Even with that surname, Bobby Kennedy was a pariah just a couple of years ago because of his outspoken views on vaccines.
00:21:29.000If Bobby Kennedy enters the upper echelons of government, one of the most significant and powerful positions in the most significant and most powerful nation on earth, then America is going to change, isn't it?
00:21:39.000Corporations are going to have to radically review the way they influence government policy.
00:21:43.000If America becomes awakened to good nutrition, good exercise, good spiritual values, recognition that government itself...
00:21:52.000It's limited in what it can offer you.
00:21:54.000It's just a bunch of bureaucrats managing stuff.
00:21:55.000It's nice to have charismatic ones in the office, I suppose.
00:21:59.000But ultimately, it's just the manoeuvring and management of resources.
00:22:52.000Everyone's talking about USAID. What is USAID? It's ultimately, I suppose, a foreign aid proposition where American taxpayer dollars are used around the world to help or aid people.
00:23:07.000Is this yet another one of the stories that points to the fact that when it comes to the media relationship with globalist products, there's this great ability to make the agenda of the globalists seem somehow philanthropic?
00:23:25.000Is USAID simply a way to rob and control the American taxpayer and to fund peculiar globalist pursuits that are of dubious moral nature?
00:23:35.000Certainly, Mike Benz believes that's the case.
00:23:38.000He's been speaking to numerous people, including Joe Rogan, about that.
00:23:43.000So let's look at USAID, its reach and its influence.
00:23:49.000And is it one of the observable mechanisms of deep state power?
00:23:53.000And was Trump just elected on a significant mandate to address, attack, and to some degree ameliorate that type of deep state power?
00:24:02.000Let me know what you think about that in the comments and chat as we get into this story.
00:24:05.000Certainly, Joy Reid may have told more truth than she intended to when she said that a kind of coup is taking place when it comes to the attack on USAID.
00:24:45.000But what that minor inconvenience is evidence of is that they mean business and it seems that they're planning to govern in the way that they campaign.
00:24:52.000Whether you agree with them or not, you have to recognise that...
00:24:57.000A continuum between the will of the people and the actions of the governing is precisely what we think we mean when we say electoral democracy.
00:25:05.000So, he said he was going to sack a bunch of deep state a pair of cheeks.
00:26:04.000As the pothole problem or as significant as billions of dollars of aid being sent to a foreign war when we think that some of the military hardware likely gets sold on elsewhere.
00:26:14.000In short, even at the most local level, do your governments have your best interests at heart?
00:26:20.000Are they improving your schools, the health of your children?
00:26:24.000Are they curtailing and controlling the excesses of rampant corporate forces who want you to eat sugary, red-dyed filth and pump Have yourself full of pharmaceuticals that probably make you worse?
00:26:37.000Taxpayer paid for to impose speech codes, bullying news organizations by demanding interview transcripts, implementing an FBI purge, locking federal workers out of their computers, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves, without congressional or any other authorization, and even turning them away at their offices while giving themselves, without congressional or any other authorization, full access to the personal data of tens
00:27:03.000But we've all just spent the last 10 years learning the degree to which government agencies spy on the citizens of their countries and share information.
00:27:19.000We now know that our government does exactly that.
00:27:22.000We now know that centralist neoliberal governments, precisely like the one we just evaded and avoided, in particular would have used various means, primarily crisis, to implement unprecedented citizen management.
00:27:44.000Including social security recipients, FBI agents and officials, military and government contractors, and every single employee of the federal government.
00:27:54.000All of that data in private hands that you did not authorize, even if you voted for Donald Trump.
00:28:02.000This as Trump installs unqualified minions at the heads of every federal agency, knowing that they wouldn't stop this even if they knew how.
00:28:15.000Now at least we know that the left's not going to do something that I thought it might do.
00:28:22.000Our whole movement's fallen apart because we got captured by commercial interests and got sort of alloyed to deep statism and systems of control.
00:28:43.000Just a few references to, I don't know, Trudeau, Macron, Keir Starmer, that class of leader.
00:28:48.000We're going to lose them, and we're going to get back in touch with what matters, the values of our people, the nature of our land, our purpose here on Earth.
00:29:07.000Threatening multiple trade wars or vowing to launch a new age of American imperialism by colonizing the indigenous people of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
00:29:15.000All while congressional Democrats issue strongly worded letters, plus holding a press conference today.
00:29:21.000And congressional Republicans sit back and let the federal government they work for collapse all around them.
00:29:27.000While they occasionally beg Trump for tariff mercy for their states.
00:29:31.000If this were happening in any other country right now, I promise you, I'd be on the air calling it a coup.
00:30:08.000The American government should accrue your wealth and then go around the world helping people.
00:30:13.000Now, that seems unlikely and sounds untrue.
00:30:16.000What government would you ever trust with such an endeavour except for the most holy government conceivable, a council of saints?
00:30:25.000So if USAID were what Joy Reid were claiming, it would still be a peculiar claim because you would be granting an extraordinary spiritual power to governments that don't generally behave in a spiritual way.
00:30:38.000They act in sort of mechanical, administrative, bureaucratic and controlling ways, don't they?
00:30:51.000Here's Mike Benz, the expert in deep state matters, the man who knows the anatomy of the blob better than most, on Joe Rogan, explaining USAID to Joe Rogan.
00:31:02.000Let's get this in foundationally so we've heard Mike Benz describe it because, you know me, I can get abstract.
00:31:09.000...department, USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy.
00:31:12.000Now, USAID... Don't call it USAID, Mike, because it's actually USAID. Yeah, I hate to tell you, Mike, that actually you've fallen into their trap there.
00:31:20.000You've fallen into their trap because you've made it sound like, do they know it's Christmas or heal the world?
00:32:17.000I actually call it USAID because it Fs you and kills you if you mess around with it.
00:32:22.000So, when they are capacity-building activist groups in a foreign country, that's because the State Department wants those activists there.
00:32:32.000Now, USAID, for the first time in its history, it was created in the early 1960s by JFK, 1961. It was created because you had all of this intelligence...
00:32:45.000Statecraft and military support and logistical aid that was tripping over itself, basically.
00:32:54.000The military would be funding, you know, would be running aid to certain groups in the region.
00:32:59.000The State Department would be running aid to certain groups in the region.
00:33:19.000And USAID is effectively a switch player to assist the Pentagon on the national security front, to assist the State Department on the national interest front, or to assist the intelligence community on a sort of clandestine operations front.
00:33:38.000Wow, it sounds like a pretty dark and expensive little operation by Benz's brilliant reckoning.
00:33:45.000Marjorie Taylor Greene posted that USAID is, to some degree, funding mRNA, or gain-of-function technology, excuse me.
00:33:56.000So here she says, in response to this post here, CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was a whistleblower.
00:34:05.000So, USAID, EcoHealth Alliance, and the CIA were all involved in funding and creating COVID-19 in the Wuhan lab.
00:34:11.000Which led to a killing of millions of people, forced COVID vaccines that also killed and injured millions of people, and the worst abuse of government overreach in our lifetimes.
00:34:20.000And they made American people pay for it.
00:34:28.000I started to want to say it in Marjorie Taylor Greene's voice.
00:34:32.000So, USAID... I mean, it should be shut down, no?
00:34:37.000A lot of people are claiming that there's a recklessness to Trump and Doge in the dismantling of state apparatus and that it will augur a new and crazed chaos.
00:35:11.000I love this dude that's just in the primary is going to diss and cuss Jeb Bush and then against H. Clinton, just going to bam bam you'd be in jail.
00:35:21.000Now that it's evolved and it's in its second term and indeed is alloyed to legitimate anti-corporate figures like RFK, what we're beginning to see...
00:36:02.000It's a coup against deep state interests.
00:36:04.000And the only way you can do that is from within government.
00:36:07.000So when the left claims that this is terrible and wring the hands, no one trusts government with that kind of power, that kind of money, and that kind of moral duty because they don't trust the morality of the individuals that make it up, nor their agenda.
00:36:22.000Let me know what you think in the comments and the chat.
00:36:26.000Here's a look at this from my mate Matt Ken.
00:36:30.000The third largest funder of the BBC's charitable arm is USAID. It gives nearly ÂŁ2 million to train reporters in 35 countries and to teach them how to serve Washington.
00:36:41.000Trump is dismantling the infrastructure of the US empire, particularly its propaganda apparatus.
00:36:48.000Incredible and intriguing and interesting.
00:36:51.000We'll be looking at some other aspects of USAID. We're keeping an eye on other news around confirmations and whatnot.
00:36:57.000But we'll be bringing you some more stories about USAID. And if you want to learn about it, baby, we'll learn about it together.
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00:39:46.000I don't know if it read on camera, but I thought I should apologise just because if we were face-to-face now, like if we were together hanging out, I'm like, all right, how are you, fellow human?
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00:40:25.000I'm excited about him because I see him on Rogan, and everyone that I know in the world of Christianity is saying what's really good about him is he knows the score when it comes to the Greek and the Hebrew, and he can explain to you what I think some people call apologetics.
00:41:03.000This is just a sort of a scripture chat that we had last week.
00:41:06.000In a minute I'll be back with more on USAID and in particular what Bobby Kennedy said about USAID and Ukraine.
00:41:14.000I was on a bit of a demythologization quest in my 20s, and there's sort of two camps in Christian theology, particularly in the study of the Old Testament.
00:41:28.000One is explaining the supernatural in sort of a demythologization way, right?
00:41:41.000No, it was just phenomenological to the narrator.
00:41:44.000You know, his world was flooding, but the actual world didn't flood.
00:41:47.000And this is sort of, these are the modern questions, so that Christians don't feel like idiots when they're conversing with people of science who think that the supernatural is insane.
00:42:00.000Kaiser has pushed back on that, and he's like, no, everything, the talking snake, all of the miracles, I think that that's real.
00:42:10.000And beyond that, we're living in a supernatural world.
00:42:14.000And if you believe in a guy who came back from the dead and he could walk on water and make people's limbs grow back, then what's your problem with the sun standing still?
00:42:23.000I want to talk about that BBC thing a little more.
00:42:47.000So, alright, let's have a look at this.
00:42:49.000Let's have a look at former FBI director Andrew McCabe on Anderson Cooper talking about the FBI. Get it up for the FBI, the CIA, all of these agencies, aside from Hollywood movies, come to be regarded as the tendrils of evil.
00:43:10.000FBI rank-and-file agents and analysts who make up the vast majority of the field offices, who do the work of investigating these cases, of executing search warrants, of executing arrest warrants, doing...
00:43:24.000Surveillance, electronic surveillance, whatever it might be.
00:43:27.000Those people are never touched by the political winds that blow through every four years, nor should they be.
00:43:33.000As you said, they don't pick their work.
00:43:35.000They're assigned to the work that they do.
00:43:40.000It's within FBI policies, and not doing the work is not really an option for them, right?
00:43:46.000They come to the FBI. Most of them come intending to stay for the entirety of their careers, 20 years or more, 20 years on the agent's side, a little.
00:43:58.000Let me know in the comments and chat, is it easy for you to feel sympathy for the FBI? What are the first things you think when you think of the FBI? Alright, Hannibal Lecter.
00:44:10.000But after that, don't you think of, don't they get innocent people to act like criminals?
00:44:32.000It seems slightly ridiculous, but that's actually it.
00:44:36.000Literal example of one of the things the FBI do do.
00:44:40.000So I don't know if all of us feel like up in arms as if they're shutting down, I don't know, the Red Cross or something that's directly connected to true altruism.
00:44:48.000So what is the function of USAID? You've seen Joy Reid's giddy optimism.
00:44:53.000Jen Psaki claims that Musk is only targeting USAID because he fears investigations into his own corruption.
00:45:21.000His latest target was the United States Agency for International Development, and that agency is the one that not only leads on humanity...
00:45:29.000When you do say the name properly, Agency for International Development, you get a much clearer depiction of what its function is.
00:45:35.000It's to facilitate globalism and corporatism.
00:45:38.000In particular, the way that government agencies and private interests can intersect and benefit one another.
00:45:45.000One speculative example being, of course, George Soros, who is said, and this is Mike Benz's reporting, to gain early access to international policy and therefore be able to benefit.
00:45:58.000For example, if people know, hey, Ukraine's going to get crazily disrupted any day soon, George Soros is apparently able to benefit from that information.
00:46:07.000This is a theory that is put forward by Mike Benz.
00:46:18.000So the claim that USA... Once you look at even the name, Agency for International Development, you can start to understand that that's to develop interests, institutions and relationships internationally that are beneficial to globalism.
00:46:33.000The name does give you a better indication than when you call it USAID. That's when you start to just...
00:47:18.000Last night, employees received an email ordering them not to come into the office today.
00:47:23.000They weren't given a reason or any sort of rationale.
00:47:26.000They were basically just told not to show up.
00:47:29.000Many were even blocked from the system and locked out of their email accounts.
00:47:34.000We're also seeing something similar happening in the Treasury Department.
00:47:37.000In the last few days, Elon Musk and his Doge pals have been granted access to the federal payment system that handles paychecks to federal workers, Social Security checks, tax refunds, and basically incredibly sensitive personal information about anyone who gets those.
00:47:51.000Yeah, but we don't see the government as super trustworthy.
00:47:54.000If I was to express my concern about Elon Musk, it would be, oh, that Neuralink stuff and...
00:48:17.000That's sort of exactly what I kind of was hoping was going to happen.
00:48:19.000Let me know in the comments in chat whether you feel yourself called to defend bureaucrats and deep state operatives that were previously participating in total control of the citizenry.
00:48:32.000This takeover is also happening across the Office of Personnel Management.
00:48:36.000Where Musk has gained unprecedented access to federal human resources databases that house sensitive personal information about millions of federal employees.
00:48:45.000And I'm going to talk with the reporter who broke that story today about what else he's learned later in the show.
00:48:51.000Now, I'm going to just be straight with you about all this.
00:48:53.000I mean, in the face of all of this and much more that's happened the last two weeks, there's not always been the type of clear, consistent and united response from leading Democrats that I believe and you probably believe the moment requires.
00:49:07.000Yes, there have been some powerful voices out there in the confirmation hearings.
00:49:11.000Broadly, this is advocacy for the idea that USAID is positive and that it's a disgrace that it's being defunded, right?
00:49:20.000Now, this is a post from Jimmy Dore responding...
00:49:25.000To a clip from Zelensky, because actually, Ukraine are receiving significant funding via USAID. And here's Jimmy Dore responding to Zelensky saying they've only received...
00:49:39.000Half of the $177 billion aid that was allegedly sent from the United States.
00:49:44.000So here's what our man Jimmy Dore has to say on that.
00:49:47.000Ukraine, like Afghanistan, is a money laundering and money funneling operation.
00:49:50.000These wars were never meant to be won.
00:50:08.000There's some considerable polarity when it comes to views on USAID and my own biases, tendencies, experience and research would suggest to me at least that USAID functions primarily as a kind of form of soft power, cloaking and masking taxpayer expenditure on projects that you would never back if you were told about them explicitly because some of them directly contribute to...
00:50:33.000Citizen management in your own lives, and a lot of it is just sort of squandered, I would say, in this example, on unwinnable wars.
00:50:42.000Here's RFK explaining to Tucker a little while ago, I think it's Jermaine, how, excuse me, explaining to Tucker how USAID used $5 billion in 2014 to begin the Ukraine coup.
00:50:59.000What's interesting about it is money...
00:51:03.000We're superficially informed that this is for aid around the world.
00:51:06.000Even if that were true, you could ask the question, why are we paying for aid around the world?
00:51:10.000We've got enough problems here in America, Maui fire, Hurricane Katrina, floods.
00:51:15.000I mean, it's just like a perpetual and apocalyptic cycle.
00:51:21.000These are not philanthropic endeavours.
00:51:23.000They are the masked cartilage of deep state relationship with globalist projects, which require disruption in the form of, i.e., pandemics and wars, in order to legitimize and implement the centralized power that they crave.
00:52:31.000A month before that government has overthrown, Victoria Nuland, who's part of the centerpiece of the neocon ideology and who is now a high-level official in the State Department, has a secret call with the U.S. ambassador.
00:52:46.000Which is tape recorded and is now public, which anybody can go and look up, where she is picking the new cabinet for Ukraine, which is, you know, which is a U.S. Western cabinet.
00:52:59.000So they're picking the new government a month before the old government is overthrown.
00:53:04.000Is that how democracy, is that democracy when Tori Nuland picks your government?
00:53:07.000Well, that's the point, is USAID doesn't really do.
00:53:14.000You know, the CIA has overthrown, I think, 83 governments between 1947 and 1997. That's a third of the governments on Earth, and most of them were democracies.
00:53:26.000The time frame that RFK just talked us through, i.e.
00:53:32.000U.S. projects to overthrow foreign governments, that pertains to coups in Central and Latin America Even the milieu that we all exist in now.
00:53:45.000I.e., back then that was a left-wing argument.
00:53:48.000Do you know what the American government does?
00:53:49.000It funds crazy disruption around the world.
00:53:52.000That used to be the left that would make that argument.
00:53:54.000Let me know in the comments in the chat if you remember that.
00:53:59.000That was a book about how America sponsored the overthrow of foreign governments.
00:54:04.000That was generally speaking a left-wing, inverted commas, perspective.
00:54:08.000During the time frame that RFK just described on Tucker, it's become now a right-wing, nationalist, populist issue to say that we cannot trust the government.
00:54:16.000So whether it's Jen Psaki bemoaning the loss of some control of the levers of power, or Joy Reid saying it's a disgrace that people shut out of their offices, this outrageous attempt to humanise USAID, when in fact what it is, is the visible tendrils of deep state power and control, and is an indicator that the method commonly used to mask that power is to tell you, we're trying to help you.
00:54:39.000This is a philanthropic, altruistic organization that we need you to fund.
00:55:10.000I don't understand why they're singing and dancing at their own conventions when it's so clear that their entire purview is collapsing and imploding.
00:55:18.000There's no one left who believes in this anymore.
00:55:45.000MGT suggesting that it may be connected even to the origins of COVID. Our certainty that it's connected to coups and wars and surveillance and control.
00:56:01.000Whatever your cynicism might be about this new MAGA populist movement, one thing you can say is their dismantling of bureaucracies is not what you should be concerned about.
00:56:12.000You might be concerned about AI, mRNA technologies.
00:56:14.000You might be concerned about the potential for surveillance.
00:56:17.000But the dismantling of corrupt government, and that's what we're discussing here.
00:56:21.000Corrupt government is nothing to worry about at all.
00:56:50.000Eddie Gallagher is a Navy SEAL that was detained in a military prison after the death in custody of a member of ISIS that he was charged with the care of.
00:57:01.000I don't know how you describe it when it's an ISIS member.
00:57:04.000Anyway, the ISIS prisoner of war died.
00:57:07.000And Eddie Gallagher was vilified and ultimately imprisoned without trial.
00:57:13.000The thing is, is they weaponized, in my situation, they weaponized the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is the military justice system against me.
00:57:37.000A person that can be revered and lionized and celebrated and decorated, I see the amount of medals and ribbons there on you and the cover of your book.
00:57:45.000When it's convenient, you're able to go based on gossip and rumor.
00:59:29.000Mexico's president now says President Trump's tariffs are paused for a month.
00:59:33.000President Trump confirmed the pause, saying Mexico will reinforce the border with 10,000 National Guard troops immediately as part of the negotiations.
00:59:40.000Let's go to ABC's Elizabeth Chelsea on Wall Street, Matt Rivers in Mexico City, and Karen Travers at the White House.
00:59:46.000Matt, how significant is this deal, and what else came out of this conversation?
00:59:50.000Well, this was the off-ramp that I think a lot of people had been hoping for.
00:59:54.000This is why this call was scheduled before this happened.
00:59:56.000And I think both sides will claim this as a win.
00:59:59.000The tariffs now being suspended for one month.
01:00:01.000President Sheinbaum coming out saying that President Trump agreed with her suggestion that she would send 10,000 additional National Guard troops to the northern border.
01:00:13.000The big reason why the Trump administration says that they want these tariffs in place is essentially leverage to force Mexico to do more to stop the flow, the very large flow of fentanyl from here in Mexico to the United States, as well as migration, even though the numbers of migrants that we've been seeing go to the U.S. much lower than we've seen before.
01:00:30.000So President Shane Maugham essentially saying, okay, we'll reinforce the border with 10,000 troops If all of this sounds familiar, it's because it's exactly what happened the last time President Trump threatened tariffs against Mexico.
01:00:40.000He did so against President Lopez Obrador back in 2019. I see tariffs are being used as the primary bulwark and lever against.
01:01:11.000Any issue, for example, order control, migration.
01:01:14.000Hey, listen, we're going to continue talking about that in a minute on Rumble Premium.
01:01:17.000Before you go, listen, we've got, guess who's coming on?