The Charlie Kirk Show - February 06, 2025


Destroying USAID To Save America


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USAID is one of the dirtiest agencies in the United States government and is responsible for funding some of the most evil things in the world. In this episode, we discuss what USAID does, why it does what it does, and what it's really here to do.

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00:00:02.000 We go deep, deep, deep into USAID. Any questions you have about USAID are answered in this episode.
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00:01:21.000 Joining us now is Mike Benz.
00:01:24.000 Who is the expert on all things disinformation, USAID. First, Mike, are you feeling better?
00:01:30.000 It seems like you were down for the count for quite some time.
00:01:35.000 Yeah, yeah, no, earlier, I think, right after inauguration, I was a little bit walloped by a flu.
00:01:44.000 But we are, you know, sunlight is a disinfectant that evidently...
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00:01:53.000 Well, you were probably poisoned by a bioweapon funded by USAID. So, with that segue, what is USAID? We have the full hour, Mike.
00:02:04.000 You have so much to say about this.
00:02:07.000 I'm not going to interrupt you.
00:02:08.000 The floor is yours.
00:02:09.000 Yeah, well, USAID is probably the dirtiest...
00:02:16.000 Standalone institution in the American government because it's allowed to be and because it's the ideal place to creatively structure the absolute worst kinds of activities that you could not get away with directly, either at the State Department, the Defense Department, or the CIA. And so let's just talk about what USAID is supposed to do.
00:02:41.000 So USAID is supposed to be a...
00:02:45.000 It's a humanitarian NGO sponsor that makes the world a better place, but in the process advances U.S. foreign policy.
00:02:54.000 So American foreign policy, you can think of that as management of the American empire, right?
00:03:00.000 We have an American homeland where we live, and we have an American empire, which is where we have our import-export markets.
00:03:06.000 It's where we extract critical natural resources.
00:03:12.000 It's the basis of our national security and where we put our military bases.
00:03:18.000 It is what makes the American homeland rich is that we have a huge amount of influence over the course of internal events that happen throughout the rest of the world.
00:03:31.000 And that is made possible in large part by USAID. That is what USAID is supposed to do.
00:03:38.000 Basically make us richer, make us more safe.
00:03:42.000 Make us have more control over the affairs in foreign countries, but at the same time, be a plucky group of cherubic warriors who are making the world a better place along the way.
00:03:57.000 That's sort of the idea behind it.
00:04:00.000 But just to make that clear, there's no aid in U.S. aid.
00:04:04.000 The aid that you see visually with your eyes there.
00:04:08.000 It's designed to fool you.
00:04:09.000 It's the Agency for International Development, not aid.
00:04:14.000 And international development is development of institutions, development of assets.
00:04:19.000 The money goes to groups, not to people.
00:04:24.000 It doesn't go directly to the people that a grant will say that it serves.
00:04:29.000 It goes to the groups administering it.
00:04:31.000 Which allows USAID to be the way to capacity build assets that the CIA or the State Department or the Defense Department want to pump up in order to carry out activity in a region.
00:04:47.000 Now, the reason that I've been on a crusade for the past year and a half, two years, saying that USAID is worse than the CIA is because USAID can...
00:04:59.000 Operate like the CIA, but without the restraints that are typically put on the CIA. So from the 1940s until the 1970s, the CIA was a totally rogue agency in the same way that USAID currently is.
00:05:12.000 It was not until the scandals of the 1960s and the 1970s, primarily against Democrats in this country, for example, Operation Mockingbird, Operation Chaos.
00:05:24.000 There was also the COINTELPRO side of FBI. Operation Midnight Climax.
00:05:31.000 The CIA infiltrating left-wing student groups on college campuses, co-opting left-wing thought leaders and poets and artists and musicians.
00:05:42.000 When all this stuff broke in the 1960s and 70s, the CIA was forced to undergo a series of reforms.
00:05:50.000 Chief among them was the requirement of a presidential finding wherein Any covert action the CIA does has to be formally authorized by the U.S. president.
00:06:03.000 Well, what happens if a rogue cell at the CIA wants to do something so dirty that the president would never approve of it?
00:06:13.000 Well, then they can't get a presidential finding for it, and they can't do it.
00:06:16.000 Or what if the CIA wants to run an operation that actually targets the president himself?
00:06:22.000 The president would obviously never sign off for that.
00:06:25.000 Well, welcome to the wild world of USAID, because what they can do is they can walk over to their partners at USAID and have USAID simply creatively structure the necessary parts to carry out what the CIA would have wanted to structure it as.
00:06:44.000 But USAID can simply structure it as humanitarian work.
00:06:48.000 For example, let's just say that the CIA wanted to fund ISIS terrorists to topple the government of Syria.
00:06:56.000 And President Trump did not want to give money to ISIS. So the CIA would not be able to get a presidential finding, would not be able to get Trump to sign off on that covert action.
00:07:08.000 If they wanted to do it anyway, they could simply have an informal conversation.
00:07:14.000 With USAID, and USAID could simply structure its humanitarian work in the region to funnel money to ISIS-K or funnel money to the Taliban.
00:07:25.000 They could put, for example, military supplies, as they've gotten caught busted doing, in medical vans or in USAID public health facilities.
00:07:35.000 They could, through a Byzantine layer of wire payments, end up funneling the money to terrorist groups because USAID amazingly, and credit John Solomon's Just the News for breaking this this week, the OIG at USAID just this week revealed that USAID actually does not require its contractors to pass,
00:08:01.000 to go through anti, you to go through anti, you know, the OFAC and anti-terrorism vetting requirements, which means that USAID contractors can freely give money to designate terrorist groups.
00:08:14.000 So, I mean, what I'm saying is- This is shocking stuff.
00:08:19.000 I mean, so it sounds as if this is a slush fund and an ATM machine for all the deep state actors and their activities, both abroad and a little bit domestically.
00:08:29.000 Yes, yes.
00:08:31.000 Now, the abroad thing is bad enough on its own, but, you know, the domestically is...
00:08:36.000 Is where it really borders on the criminal.
00:08:38.000 I mean, and if not the criminal, at least the predicate for completely shutting down the agency and salting the earth with its remains.
00:08:47.000 I mean, take, for example, how USAID hoodwinked Trump Term 1.0.
00:08:52.000 I mean, USAID systematically targeted every single aspect of Trump world during his first term, and I don't think Trump world even knew it.
00:09:01.000 Not just USAID declaring...
00:09:04.000 Internally, doctrinally, that populism was an attack on democracy and using that as the basis to try to topple the governments of all Trump's allies in Europe and in Brazil, the right-wing populist parties and movements, for example, of Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage, Matteo Salvini, the Vox Party in Spain, the AFD Party in Germany, but also to try to topple Bolsonaro's regime in Brazil, but also targeting Trump himself.
00:09:32.000 USAID has mercenary media for hire.
00:09:35.000 They spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year paying media outlets to write whirlwind surround sound news cycles to favor the blob's intended political events in the region.
00:09:49.000 So one example of that, a classic.
00:09:52.000 A real doozy, I should note, is something called the OCCRP, which you can just think of as the Corruption Reporting Project.
00:09:58.000 It's the largest consortium of investigative journalists in the world, hit-piece journalists in the world.
00:10:05.000 USAID paid this group $20 million in 2018-2019 to write hit-piece journalist investigations on the blob's targets in Ukraine, and they dug up dirt on Paul Manafort.
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00:12:05.000 Development in the same way that business development means soliciting donors.
00:12:09.000 Media development at USAID means acting as a donor to media organizations.
00:12:14.000 So this is state-sponsored media.
00:12:17.000 This is mercenary media for hire.
00:12:19.000 When USAID's programming goals want the media in a particular region to print certain news stories or to demonize certain individuals or politicians in the area, they pay media outlets to produce the dirt on them.
00:12:37.000 And this ended up spiraling back at home against Trump World in a massive way because USAID paid $20 million to the OCCRP, the largest collective of investigative journalists, hit-piece journalists in the world, the same group that broke the Panama Papers, and suspiciously gets access to hacked documents and then is first to break them because they mysteriously obtained these hacked documents.
00:13:05.000 Not exactly a good look when you're getting your money from a CIA cutout like USAID, but maybe that's a story for another day.
00:13:12.000 But what they did is they wrote, OCCRP took that $20 million and they wrote hit pieces on Rudy Giuliani and his work in Ukraine.
00:13:23.000 And then that ended up being used as the basis for part of the Trump impeachment in 2019. And Trump Ukraine and Trump world and Rudy in Ukraine.
00:13:34.000 And so USAID is directly sponsoring the production of hit pieces to impeach the president under which USAID is nominally supposed to serve.
00:13:46.000 This is the sort of thing that is insurrectionary in the ultimate.
00:13:52.000 But because USAID does not require presidential findings for its work, they don't need a report.
00:13:58.000 The president can be keeping...
00:13:59.000 Kept totally in the dark.
00:14:01.000 All the grant administrators need to know, all oversight is told is, we're supporting free and independent media in Ukraine.
00:14:08.000 We're supporting free and independent media.
00:14:12.000 And what they don't know is that they're working with their state-sponsored media to dig up hit pieces on their political opponents sitting in the West Wing of the White House.
00:14:23.000 But you see this all over.
00:14:24.000 USAID does the same thing.
00:14:26.000 In Western Hemisphere, USAID sponsors media that operates in Brazil in order to target Bolsonaro and his supporters all over Eastern Europe, basically in any country with a Trump ally, Pakistan with Imran Khan, you name it.
00:14:42.000 But this gets back to this Truman Show point, which is that you're seeing...
00:14:50.000 These, you know, veneer of white-shoe media, you know, institutionally celebrated, you know, OCCRP has gotten dozens of awards for high-integrity media and breaking the most important media stories, and, you know, it's hit pieces for hire.
00:15:07.000 It's like Paul Krugman getting, you know, a Pulitzer, but, I mean, the whole thing's a hoax.
00:15:11.000 Has USAID, only two minutes in here, been involved in coups, like the Maidan revolution in Ukraine?
00:15:19.000 Has this money been used for such activities?
00:15:23.000 Yeah.
00:15:23.000 Coups is a particular specialty of USAID. USAID is the arch coup monster all over the world.
00:15:32.000 For example, USAID spent like $1.2 billion pumping up the Arab Spring protests.
00:15:40.000 And, you know, giving money to the protesters and protesting groups and the institutions sponsoring them in Egypt during the Arab Spring in 2010-2011.
00:15:51.000 They did the same thing in Tunisia.
00:15:52.000 They did the same thing in Ukraine in 2014. Victoria Nuland bragged on tape in December 2013 that USAID and the U.S. State Department and NED collectively paid $5 billion to the very institutions that spearheaded the overthrow.
00:16:09.000 of the democratically elected Ukrainian government just two months after she made that speech in February 2014 at the Maidan Square.
00:16:17.000 And this is one of the reasons that USAID is spending Tens of billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to continue to pay these groups in Ukraine.
00:16:27.000 You get them all on payroll, and so they'll do the dirt anyway.
00:16:31.000 And a great example of this is a document that I produced about a year and a half ago, but I re-upped it this week, and everyone should read it.
00:16:39.000 Which is the Mark Milley, Joe Biden, Pentagon Special Forces Planning Manual that involves how USAID can assist secret Special Forces psychological operations work.
00:16:50.000 when there was a scenario in this public government document that I produced, the Special Forces Manual from 2021, that goes over a scenario where the Special Forces is planning a race riot in Africa in order to create a cleavage between African workers and Chinese that goes over a scenario where the Special Forces is planning a race riot in Africa in order to create a cleavage between African
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00:18:20.000 Mike, continue your thought.
00:18:21.000 You were talking about West Africa.
00:18:23.000 Yes.
00:18:24.000 So what I was referring to was a...
00:18:27.000 Special Forces document, a strategic vision blueprint produced in 2021 during the Biden administration control over the Pentagon, during the Mark Milley hold over the Pentagon, which laid out a strategic vision for how best to synchronize Special Forces psychological operations work with USAID and related partner groups assisting the psychological operations activity.
00:18:55.000 Psychological operations is not like just some big bad voodoo work.
00:19:00.000 What it usually refers to is the fomenting of cleavages within a society being targeted by the U.S. foreign policy establishment in order to achieve some national security or national interest end in the country.
00:19:17.000 And so it's justified by keeping us safe and by making us wealthier.
00:19:24.000 And what it usually refers to is a nice way of saying ginning up and generating riots in the country and street protests.
00:19:34.000 All street protest activity that's organized by special forces or civil military or any Pentagon equity usually refers to It has some component of galvanizing people to take to the streets to protest the government and create a democratic predicate for regime change by portraying the government as being unresponsive to the people protesting and then categorizing police
00:20:05.000 crackdowns on the Pentagon or blob-sponsored protesters as a humanitarian or human rights offense.
00:20:15.000 But in this government document, which everybody can go to, Right now, on my X page, it's at Mike Ben Cyber.
00:20:22.000 I put the link there, and the page is 16 to 17. It's currently still up on the U.S. military's website.
00:20:30.000 And what it calls for is, it goes over a hypothetical scenario for how special forces could best carry out its mission during the Biden years.
00:20:41.000 And they give the example of countering Chinese influence in Africa, which is a noble goal. 1.00
00:20:47.000 Genuinely, truly is.
00:20:49.000 We should be working to counter Chinese influence in Africa. 1.00
00:20:52.000 But there are certain bounds on the dirty tricks that I believe the U.S. should put in terms of how it carries that work out.
00:21:00.000 Rather than creating a Truman Show out of all the institutions and population in the area where we're doing such dirty deeds, especially out in the open.
00:21:09.000 So in this scenario, the U.S. military caught wind of a Chinese plan to purchase a port in West Africa, which would therefore give the Chinese access to the Atlantic Ocean and to therefore project influence which would therefore give the Chinese access to the Atlantic Ocean and to therefore And that could be a national security threat if China is buying up ports in West Africa.
00:21:37.000 Totally agree.
00:21:38.000 But in the scenario, they go over how the special forces would play a role in stopping this.
00:21:44.000 And they give the example of what happens when the U.S. ambassador to that West African country tries to tell the African government not to build this port.
00:21:54.000 And what if the African government says, no, we want to still build it?
00:21:58.000 How can the special forces still stop the production of that port?
00:22:02.000 And so the special forces there laid out a plan where what they would do is they would generate race riots.
00:22:07.000 To, quote, inflame racial tensions of the African population against the Chinese businesses in the area and against the Chinese interests in the area and get the Africans to riot and do protests in the streets as well as to quit their jobs so that they stop working for Chinese companies.
00:22:28.000 And the Special Forces laid out the scenario where one of their key partners would be USAID because USAID under the...
00:22:35.000 Under the mask, under the false predicate of doing jobs fairs, would provide no-show jobs to the striking and rioting Africans so that they would be financially incentivized to quit their jobs and participate in the riots to destabilize the African country. 0.97
00:22:54.000 And that economic destabilization...
00:22:57.000 Of the African government would force the African government to come back to the negotiating table with the U.S. State Department, where, in a sense, we would turn off the riots if they turn off the deal to buy the Chinese ports. 0.71
00:23:11.000 But in that case, you have USAID as being the key partner by funding the...
00:23:19.000 You see USAID doing the same thing with the Maidan Square riots in 2014 that ousted Yanukovych.
00:23:26.000 You saw the same thing with USAID funding the street riots against the Prime Minister of Bangladesh that successfully ousted her from office four months ago.
00:23:36.000 You see the same thing with USAID funding the riots that successfully ousted the government of Tunisia during the Arab Spring.
00:23:43.000 The same thing with USAID funding the riots that produced the That ousted the government of Egypt during the Arab Spring.
00:23:51.000 Time and time and time again, whether it's Western Hemisphere with Venezuela or Bolivia, whether that's Eastern Europe with Ukraine or Georgia, whether that's Middle East, North Africa with Tunisia and Egypt, whether that's Central Asia with Bangladesh, USAID is the primary sponsor of blob rent-a-riots, and most disturbingly...
00:24:15.000 That even comes back home because USAID has a very curious relationship with Black Lives Matter.
00:24:21.000 You can look at Black Lives Matter having direct partnerships now with Samantha Power's USAID. These are public documents about Samantha Power's commitment to support Black Lives Matter programming.
00:24:41.000 You also have USAID. Paying $27 million to Black Lives Matter's chief organizational structure parent group, which is called the Tide Center.
00:24:53.000 USAID paid them $27 million.
00:24:55.000 While you had USAID-adjacent riot planners in 2020 who openly contemplated through a group called the Transition Integrity Project.
00:25:06.000 That Black Lives Matter should be capacity built in the middle of their riots to serve as a potential destabilization force to oust Trump from office if he won the 2020 election. 0.59
00:25:17.000 So how would we go about defeating this beast?
00:25:20.000 Is Elon going about this correctly and President Trump?
00:25:23.000 That's a complicated question.
00:25:25.000 And I sincerely hope the people who are at the tip of the spear in terms of White House policy really know what they're doing.
00:25:33.000 Because we are...
00:25:34.000 Conducting open-heart surgery on the body of the entire American empire right now.
00:25:41.000 And I'm not fully sure that the folks who are doing that open-heart surgery fully understand the anatomy of the body they are operating on.
00:25:52.000 Oftentimes, for the past several years, when I crusade on this, people hear what I'm saying and say, okay.
00:26:00.000 Well, we need to eliminate this entirely.
00:26:02.000 This thing is so corrupt and evil, and it is corrupt and evil.
00:26:06.000 The issue is it also plays a critical role in projecting U.S. influence around the world.
00:26:13.000 And I always say, while the blob is the key antagonist, the chief villain on the other side of the story about how America can become great again.
00:26:27.000 It also does play an indispensable role in securing U.S. interests around the world.
00:26:33.000 I talk about, for example, the Milton Friedman analogy of the pencil.
00:26:39.000 Milton Friedman has this very viral, popular video that he recorded decades ago about the power of the free market for the creation of pencils, that no one person can make a pencil, and that America...
00:26:53.000 The reason we have pencils in America is because of the magic of the market operating to get us wood from trees in South America and graphite from mines in Argentina and gum for the pencil eraser from trees in Malaysia.
00:27:13.000 Well, what happens if, for example, the Malaysian government decides that they no longer want to allow U.S. corporations or the export of You know, gum tree products to pencils.
00:27:26.000 America would be potentially without pencils unless we had some capacity to influence the internal events of Malaysia.
00:27:35.000 Same thing, for example, with the graphite in a pencil.
00:27:38.000 Let's just say there's a labor strike in the country in South America with the graphite mines that we use to make pencils.
00:27:45.000 Well, if the unions go on strike there against American corporations or South American corporations that are producing...
00:27:52.000 That graphite.
00:27:53.000 Well then, no pencils.
00:27:54.000 The U.S. has perceived and potentially, sincerely does, need a mechanism to be able to influence the activity of those unions or influence the nationalization of natural resource policies in foreign countries.
00:28:08.000 And that sometimes involves dirty work.
00:28:10.000 Infiltrating those unions, putting pressure on foreign governments.
00:28:14.000 But the problem is, is this license to do dirty work has become completely unchecked, especially at USAID, where it doesn't even require a presidential finding to do this covert action.
00:28:26.000 And so I did not, it was unseemly, but perhaps okay, when this was being done to protect U.S. interests.
00:28:33.000 But when USAID began to be weaponized against sitting presidents beginning in 2016, That's really when the bets are off because the whole purpose of having an American empire is for the benefit of the people of the American homeland.
00:28:48.000 If the foreign policy establishment controls the affairs of the American homeland too, then we don't even have a democracy.
00:28:54.000 We have a blobocracy and we have no control over our own internal affairs. 0.97
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00:30:05.000 We have a serious challenge in front of us.
00:30:11.000 We have the USAID fight.
00:30:12.000 fight.
00:30:12.000 We have the Doge fight.
00:30:13.000 We have this funding issue in front of us.
00:30:18.000 Mike Benz, Mike Benz, if you were to say one, two, three, we only have four minutes remaining.
00:30:22.000 One, two, three.
00:30:23.000 What are the one, two, three action items on how we should finalize this USAID situation in front of us?
00:30:29.000 Number one, shut down the agency and move it into a branch of the government that So, for example, I think this plan to shut down USAID and Tucka Understate...
00:30:43.000 It is a very interesting one.
00:30:46.000 I'm not sure if that's ultimately the best place for it, but as an interim matter, I think it's potentially the right move.
00:30:55.000 But what's really important is, and I say this time and time again for the past week and a half since this saga's been playing out, but simply ending USAID as an organization.
00:31:10.000 Does not end USAID as a function.
00:31:13.000 If USAID grants and contracts and operational structuring remain the same, but headquarters is simply shut down and moved over to state, well, state just inherits a USAID herpes infection.
00:31:28.000 It simply will have...
00:31:31.000 The same problems that USAID had if that structuring fundamentally remains.
00:31:36.000 This is the same reason there really wouldn't be much change in the CIA if you simply shut down Langley and moved CIA to be directly under state.
00:31:45.000 In fact, this was the original plan in 1948 for the CIA. George Kennan, who authored the National Security Council 10-2 plausible deniability doctrine, which gives the CIA its private cloak for all of its...
00:32:00.000 Covert action work.
00:32:01.000 George Kennan, three months before he penned that doctrine, initially wanted the CIA Operations Division to operate directly at state under what he called the Bureau of Political Warfare.
00:32:13.000 You can read the 1948 memo called the Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare, where he goes over that exact structure.
00:32:20.000 But the fact is, the CIA would still be doing CIA work.
00:32:23.000 It would just be warehoused within state.
00:32:25.000 And right now, USAID is about to undergo that.
00:32:29.000 Exact process.
00:32:30.000 Now, the nice thing is because State works very closely with the White House National Security Council and there is a tremendous amount of constant communication and oversight between White House and State, in theory, it will be much easier to catch the malfeasance at State than it was at USAID. But the problem is...
00:32:55.000 Everybody in Washington is in on the take at USAID. This is a bigger problem than Democrats and Republicans.
00:33:03.000 As I mentioned, a huge portion of the Republican Congress is directly or indirectly, whether personally or their constituents or their donors, are dependent on either USAID funding directly or USAID covert influence work.
00:33:25.000 To support their activities.
00:33:27.000 I'll give you a great example.
00:33:28.000 Rex Tillerson was the chairman of ExxonMobil for the first few years of the Trump administration.
00:33:35.000 ExxonMobil has been a stalwart donor to the Republican Party for decades.
00:33:40.000 Well, who was Victoria Nuland standing in front of when she made that speech that I referenced in December 2013 about all the billions of dollars USAID had pumped into the rental riots in Ukraine?
00:33:53.000 In 2014, when she made that speech about USAID's funding of the Renta riots, she was at a sponsored event by ExxonMobil and Chevron.
00:34:02.000 The literal signs for the Exxon and Chevron sponsors were behind Victoria Nuland when she said it, which is to say...
00:34:11.000 That it's not just the direct USAID folks in the Republican Party who are going to push back on the attempt to cut these grants while they're at state.
00:34:19.000 It's not just going to be the Liz Cheney types.
00:34:21.000 Liz Cheney worked at USAID. It's not just going to be the Bill Kristol types. 0.93
00:34:24.000 Bill Kristol is a part of an organization that gets millions from USAID. But it's going to be key donors.
00:34:32.000 We're going to want to keep these grants and contracts and covert operations flowing, and there's going to need to be a very difficult conversation by highly informed Trump World foreign policy architects about how to make American statecraft more consistent with American norms and values in the years ahead.
00:34:53.000 Mike, that was terrific.
00:34:54.000 We have to have you on again.
00:34:55.000 I mean, we barely touched the surface here, but thank you, Mike.
00:34:58.000 We learned a lot.
00:34:59.000 We really appreciate it.
00:35:00.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:35:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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