In January 2023, as The Gateway Pundit reported at the time, the Biden regime began expelling Brazilian opposition leaders back to Brazil after the surprise election victory of socialist criminal Lula da Silva.
In July 2024, the Brazilian Federal Police indicted the popular former President Jair Bolsonaro for ‘money laundering and criminal association.’ The charges are reportedly related to ‘undeclared diamonds’ he received from Saudi Arabia during his tenure.
This is nothing new. The Lula regime has targeted and persecuted Bolsonaro and his supporters since taking office in 2023. Lula, a communist, took lessons from the Biden regime and relentless political persecution of President Donald Trump, parents, devout Catholics, pro-life activists, and Trump supporters starting to take office in 2021.
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So it is no surprise that the Biden regime has supported Lula da Silva, the socialist tyrant in Brazil, before the presidential election. And now we know that the US State Department is funding the censorship ecosystem in Brazil with tens of millions of dollars.
Foreign Policy reported ahead of the 2022 presidential election on how Joe Biden and the CIA worked to ensure Lula’s victory in Brazil.
“How Biden’s Team Tried a Coup in Brazil’s Election,” read the headline.
According to reports, top Biden officials from the White House, the Defense Department, the State Department, and the CIA all joined in threatening the Bolsonaro administration in a rare diplomatic meeting.
CIA Director Joe Biden, William Burns, and National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, both traveled to Brazil to meet with senior Brazilian officials and warned that Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country’s election process. This is the prelude to a quiet campaign by Washington to replace Bolsonaro, the popular candidate, with the socialist tool Lula da Silva.
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On Saturday, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport in France for refusing to comply with the country’s censorship laws. Pavel Durov, 39, was arrested on the tarmac as he disembarked from a private jet from Azerbaijan.
On Saturday afternoon Mike Benz, founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online released a video explaining who he believes is behind this arrest – the US State Department.
Earlier this week, Mike Benz was interviewed by Tucker Carlson. During the conversation, Benz discussed how the State Department is spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to build a sensor ecosystem in Brazil.
The Biden regime and its Deep State bosses are spending millions to replace the pro-liberty Bolsonaro administration with the communist Lula de-Silva.
Here is a partial transcript.
Mike Benz: The problem is that our Congress is not standing up for us, because this is happening all over the world. Just this year, the drama around Brazil has become a big problem for Elon Musk and X. The House held a hearing on it, and then the House Foreign Affairs Committee titled the hearing Brazil, Crisis of democracy, rule of law and governance. , a question mark. But he did not interrogate the role of the US State Department in censorship in Brazil. Actually the US Department of State has the capacity to spend tens of millions of dollars, the entire ecosystem of censorship in Brazil. They spent tens of millions of dollars to pay, Brazilian journalists, Brazilian censors, Brazilian fact-checkers, even members of the legal scholarship associated with the Brazilian censorship court, and effectively forced through the soft power swarm of these NGOs, Brazil, to set up the entire censorship architecture. now it is. They set up.
Tucker Carlson: Why is the US government, which represents the US Constitution and democracy, trying to stop… You can’t have a democracy with censorship, by definition. So why would we try to end democracy in country after country? What’s the point?
Mike Benz: Yes, this is one of the great ironies of American statecraft in the post-2016 era. Free speech has been a tool of the state for US diplomacy, military and intelligence purposes since the 1940s.
Free speech around the world has been something we have championed, partly because we believe, but in large part, I must note, because this is how you can build the capacity of resistance movements or political movements or paramilitary movements in countries where the US Department of State seeks to gain political control . If there is no freedom of speech, then no political movement can be built to regime change the government or maintain elements of control in the existing government.
That’s why the State Department is building the capacity of all these NGOs, the US is also doing it, like Freedom House and all its wings, for example, 26 NGOs that condemned Russia for trying to ban Telegram in 2018. Why would 26 US government -funded NGOs all say that Russia is attacking freedom speech in Russia threatening to block Telegram. Is it because the US State Department uses Telegram through the power of encrypted chats and all its functions and the fact that many Russians use it to create protests and riots in Russia, as they did in Belarus, as they did. in Iran, as they did in Hong Kong, as they did in China.
So Telegram is a very powerful vehicle for the US State Department to mobilize protests, to galvanize political support against authoritarian countries. That is why the US government is very fond of Telegram from 2014 to 2020, because it is a powerful way to avoid state control through the media or state surveillance through private conversations because of the private function, anonymous forwarding, all these unique features of Telegram allow. have political groups funded by the US or political dissidents ask tens of thousands of people for the cause with relative impunity. It was effectively unstoppable by a regime like Lukashenko in the summer of 2020, when the US government effectively organized a color revolution in Belarus. Let me take a moment. Telegram is the main channel for that. The National Endowment for Democracy actually paid the main administrator of the Telegram channel that organized the riots, the protest said.
Tucker Carlson: Not an employee of Telegram … being the person using it or arranging for someone else to use it.
Mike Benz: All I want is freedom of speech on the internet. What people need to understand, and this is a point I’ve been shouting into the wind for eight years now, is that internet censorship is not a domestic event carried out by domestic actors, mediated by domestic governments and domestic technology platform policies.
Internet censorship came to the United States and has been exported around the world as free speech is a casualty of the blob proxy war against populism. What I mean by that lump is our foreign policy establishment, which is mainly concentrated in the US State Department, US intelligence services like the CIA, the Pentagon, USAID, and the sworn army with the power that exists through NGOs and the State Department. , the CIA, a USAID-funded civil society agency. What happened was that we had a long-term plan to take over Eurasia. Russia has $75 trillion in natural resources. The United States only has $45 trillion. Just to put in perspective how many areas we are busy with. If you remember, no less than Lindsay Graham, frustrated by the lack of Republican political support for Ukraine’s aid, finally asked, took off his mask a few months ago and said, “Listen, even if you don’t believe in democracy, Ukraine. has got $14 trillion in resources nature.”
The Biden regime has repeatedly damaged America’s reputation. Enough is enough.
Congress should immediately begin investigating the Biden regime for a nefarious foreign policy operation to replace a pro-American populist leader with a communist tyrant. And Biden and Kamala need to explain to the American people why this is necessary.
Here is Benz-Carlson’s full interview.
Is the Biden administration involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov? Mike Benz explains.
(1:20) Who Was Involved In The Arrest Of Pavel Durov?
(15:50) How Telegram is Used by the CIA
(27:22) Domestic Policy None
(34:19) Redefining Democracy
(39:21) That… pic.twitter.com/cmgWWCIIpw— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 28, 2024
