Mike Benz details deep state use of propaganda on Americans

The extent to which former President Barack Obama radically transformed America has yet to be fully understood but it was under his tenure that long-existing safeguards against the use of propaganda on the American people were removed.

In another of his mind-blowing explanations of how Deep State “Blob” has come to dominate every facet of the domestic political system, former State Department official Mike Benz explained the far-reaching ramifications of Obama’s repeal of the Smith–Mundt Act to Joe Rogan on a recent episode of his immensely popular podcast.

It ALL comes back to Barack Obama

Mike Benz talks with Joe Rogan about what Barack Obama really did by repealing the Smith–Mundt Act

It’s SO MUCH BIGGER than just allowing use of propaganda on Americans, it allowed for:

– Infiltrate and co-opt the universities
– The unions… pic.twitter.com/VkV7awFrKw

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 19, 2025

A clip of Benz’s discussion with the podcasting king was shared by the X account Wall Street Apes which put it into context that Obama’s repeal of Smith–Mundt which became law during the earliest days of the Cold War has allowed for the corruption of the entire system, allowing for the infiltration and co-opting of universities, unions, media, politicians and judges.

“It allowed: “Foreign policy establishment can fund groups that effectively work with prosecutors domestically or that work at media, dual sort of dual use” and “To give them foreign grants to do media propaganda abroad but they operate here, or social media censorship to coerce foreign countries to pass foreign censorship laws that explicitly and are intended to attack US social media companies and in US peer-to-peer speech.”

Benz said “1948, Congress recognized the Frankensteinian monster they were creating by authorizing a covert permanent department of dirty Tricks. And this is their phrase, not mine, to do this cloak and dagger to infiltrate and co-opt the universities, the unions, the media, the politicians, the judges, the whole swarm army. You know what I have been calling for a long time, the USAID Truman Show.”

“Because it’s, you know, these people in these foreign countries have no idea, you know, how many, how many of the things they interact with that are effectively a movie set being constructed by the US State Department and its sister influence orgs,” Benz added.

“So the Smith–Mundt Act was always designed to say, listen, you can do this dirty stuff abroad, but it can’t come home. We have that protection, which lasted for 70 years and only, we only lost it a decade ago,” thanks to Obama.

Benz’s breakdown of Obama’s trickery caught the attention of Elon Musk who shared the clip from “The Joe Rogan Experience” and wrote, “Restore the Smith-Mundt act!”

Restore the Smith-Mundt act! https://t.co/7M60CXZdp3

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2025

In a February video posted to X, Benz also broke down the lack of a “domestic firewall” to protect Americans from propaganda funded by USAID.

USAID’s Smith-Mundt Style Problem: There is no domestic firewall to protect domestic politics or domestic citizens against USAID’s sponsored grantees who also act directly on the US homeland, or whose foreign activities impacts US citizens or US domestic affairs. https://t.co/62CtU7l0HA pic.twitter.com/eOUVHEkBZL

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 7, 2025

“We’re up against a much actually deeper, darker problem with this USAID scandal,” Benz told Rogan. “And as people will see increasingly the, the scandals that will break open at the Pentagon and the State Department, which is that we have a Smith-Mundt problem for funding and operations, it’s not just propaganda.”

“The blob, our foreign policy establishment can fund groups that, effectively work with prosecutors domestically or that or that work at media,” he continued. “You know, dual sort of dual use, we, we give them foreign grants to do media propaganda abroad, but they operate here or social media censorship to coerce foreign countries to pass foreign censorship laws that explicitly and are intended to attack US social media companies and in US peer to peer speech.”

“So we need that protection,” Benz added. “If we’re going to keep this function at all, we need a hard firewall and absolute grotesque penalties for any violation.”

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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.

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