Mike Benz Should Cooperate With the Government

There was an Israeli effort to lean on Elon Musk

Steve Hantler—my message to him this week is pictured above—is a bagman for the late lamented Bernie Marcus, now pushing daisies to the great detriment of his favored nation of Israel and the great advantage of the American republic. Marcus worked closely with the Likud mafia in the United States, and it was his money that backed Mike Benz, who has played a huge role in confusing the issues of foreign intelligence and the deep state for conservatives.

What is relevant is, like a number of these Likud influencers, Benz appears to be another one constructed with a massive following after Elon Musk’s purchase, done as it was with a surfeit of foreign or dirty cash. He’s another one of these Israeli players that has himself played a huge role in spreading antisemitism online. You break it, then sell the solution—classic scam.

There are a number of intrigues around Mike Benz which Kris Ruby is our resident expert on, from the family business of domain squatting to his sister’s time in Brazil. She married a Diplomatic Security Service agent.

Benz is close to the Empower Oversight people, which grew out of Sen. Grassley’s office. This is of course the office that never chased down Fast and Furious to the degree it probably deserved. Grassley is a good man but very old—he can and appears to be run by his staff. It’s probably more accurate to say these people manage and suppress scandals rather than investigate them. Jason Foster has been playing rope-a-dope with the Steele Dossier stuff, pursuing all these nonsense angles but completely ignoring that the primary funder for the research was Paul Singer, another Israel lobby guy.

This is the quality of Republican investigators, they have unlimited contempt for their voters because they have no stomach for taking on the Israelis, because that would involve noticing they’re running both sides of the trade on the Steele Dossier stuff.

Another interesting detail Ruby has told me is that Microchip, the informant against Douglass Mackey, has a high opinion of Benz. This may be how the Israelis got to controlling Mackey.

There are a few interesting things with Benz’s positions on matters DOGE. I’m far from an unqualified defender of USAID, but his view here, one which apparently rubbed off on Musk, is more or less consistent with the State Department one, which would prefer it be less independent. This was supposed to be the huge scandal unearthed by DOGE, which Musk himself milked to the hilt, but it obviously favors the State Department position. All of this has the effect of empowering the neocon of longest pedigree in Trump’s cabinet, Marco Rubio, though he has made some efforts toward recovery.

Lots of people probably had to lean on the Musk Twitter deal to get the desired result of continuing to run all these Israeli information ops through it, and Musk himself appears to have eventually bent the knee to Netanyahu, and it is believed Benz was part of this. It will eventually be necessary to tell the real story here, and Benz is advised to cooperate with law enforcement to do it.