Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most popular podcasts in the world with over 19 million subscribers. During his conversation with Joe Rogan, Benz revealed shocking details about how the Obama administration allegedly misused taxpayer dollars through USAID (United States Agency for International Development).
According to Benz, instead of sending legitimate aid overseas, the Obama administration laundered funds to train and organize “rent-a-mobs” and destabilize foreign governments. This revelation underscores the deep-seated corruption within the Democratic Party and highlights why President Trump’s decision to shut down USAID was a necessary step toward accountability.
Benz explained, “This was a scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. I’m simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House.”
He detailed how USAID pumped $1.2 billion into funding activist groups and civil society organizations, teaching them how to use social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to coordinate protests. “Learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it,” Benz added.
One of the most alarming aspects of this operation was the creation of a Twitter clone called Zunzuneo, designed to push propaganda in Cuba. Benz described it as follows: “So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button. Zunzuneo is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation.”
The platform was initially used to share non-controversial content like sports and music, but the ultimate goal was to introduce political messages and encourage dissent. “Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this astroturfing—the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots,’” Benz revealed.
The funding for these operations was allegedly laundered through Cayman Islands bank accounts, with money earmarked for Pakistani aid never reaching its intended destination. “You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying it’s earmarked for Pakistani aid,” Benz explained. “But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation.” This blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars highlights the lengths to which the Obama administration went to manipulate foreign governments and undermine their sovereignty.
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Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands
He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments
Sound familiar?
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President Trump’s decision to shut down USAID was a bold move to end this corruption and ensure that American tax dollars are used responsibly. The revelations from Mike Benz’s interview with Joe Rogan expose the Democrat Party’s willingness to abuse power and exploit resources for their own agenda. This is yet another example of why Americans must remain vigilant against the corruption that has plagued the Democratic Party for decades.