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So you more than anyone for the past couple of years have been awakening the rest of the country

and the world to this nexus between public and private sector, NGOs, nonprofits, U.S. government agencies whose acronyms you don't recognize, and you've described an entire complex that affects censorship, regime change, all kinds of sinister unconstitutional outcomes that most Americans don't know they're paying for.

And I'm from D.C. So as you've explained

this to me a couple of times, it all has made total sense. But sometimes I wonder, like, do people

believe what Mike Benz is saying? And now, over the last week, since the USAID files have dropped,

mostly on X, people are discovering what you have been talking about and learning

that it's 100% true.

And I just wanted to ask how that feels for you. It's a sort of somber moment, actually, more than anything.

And it's, I found myself very reflective this week and hit by the weight of history of it,

if that makes sense.

And there's a lot to this.

I mean, a lot of people have said, aren't you so happy?

You've been fighting for this so long and how it's happening.

And so they're expecting, you know, cartwheels and spiking footballs.

And that's not how I feel really at all because, you know, cartwheels and spiking footballs. And that's not how I feel really at all,

because the task here was to break the halo of this angel that turned into an angel of death.

I don't think we've had the success of the 20th century without having a soft power influence arm.

I think this is how we add cheap gas and

affordable homes and middle class prosperity and export markets for our manufactured goods here.

The task is to be able to make it be righteous and virtuous again, but you couldn't do that while it had

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