Former Trump State Department Official Just Indicted Obama-Biden Diplomat Samantha Power Over Her CIA Secret Inside USAID
Samantha Power went on Bloomberg and blamed Donald Trump for eight hundred thousand deaths.
Mike Benz was watching and he was not about to let her rewrite history.
What Benz uncovered about USAID and the CIA left her sob story in ruins.
USAID Funded a Group With Seven CIA Directors to Train Censors on Flagging Trump
Power sat down in Cambridge for Bloomberg's Big Take podcast and delivered her lines like a woman auditioning for sainthood. She told the world that shutting down USAID unleashed Ebola on the Congo.
She said Boston University tracked eight hundred thousand deaths since the agency closed. She never once mentioned the seven CIA directors sitting on the board of the group her own agency bankrolled.
Mike Benz mentioned it for her.
Benz is the researcher whose Twitter Files work first exposed how federal agencies coordinated with tech companies to silence Americans.
He served in the first Trump administration's State Department, overseeing international communications and information technology policy, and he now runs the Foundation for Freedom Online, where he has spent years tracing where USAID's money actually went.
He laid it out plainly.
USAID funneled cash to the Atlantic Council, an organization stacked with former CIA directors, to help build a censorship training program aimed at flagging Donald Trump's tweets as misinformation. Not Russian tweets. Not terrorist propaganda. The sitting President of the United States.
That is not foreign aid. That is a foreign policy agency turning its firepower on the American people it was supposed to answer to.
Benz has documented this pattern for years, tracing USAID's ties back to National Endowment for Democracy operatives and Atlantic Council partners who built out speech-policing operations across Europe and here at home. He calls it the censorship industrial complex. Once you see how the money moved, the pieces line up whether you like where they land or not.
Samantha Power Met With Soros and Gates While Claiming the Money Was for the Poor
Power wants Americans to picture USAID as scrappy humanitarians handing out grain sacks in war zones.
The real picture is messier.
While she ran the agency under Biden, Power repeatedly met with George Soros's Open Society Foundations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to Fox News Digital, which reviewed her official meeting records.
Soros and Gates do not run soup kitchens. They run two of the largest left-wing funding operations on Earth.
Power herself – who was previously Obama’s U.N. ambassador – bragged in an exit interview that foreign propaganda outlets from China and Russia ramped up attacks on USAID because, in her words, the agency was "getting on their nerves." She wants credit for making authoritarian regimes angry. She wants no credit assigned for making American conservatives the actual target of the censorship machine her agency helped fund.
Now she is on Bloomberg crying about Ebola.
The State Department is not buying the narrative either. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has pushed back hard on alarmists using Ebola and inflated death tolls to attack the USAID shutdown.
The Trump administration replaced the old agency with the America First Global Health Strategy, a leaner model that sends money straight to foreign governments through direct agreements instead of routing it through the maze of NGOs Power's allies controlled for decades.
This Pattern Did Not Start With Samantha Power
Benz has spent years documenting how USAID has operated inside the same funding orbit as the CIA and the National Endowment for Democracy for decades. The same agency that fed hungry children also helped bankroll groups that decided which American conservatives got silenced on Twitter and Facebook.
Samantha Power did not build that system. She inherited it and she ran it without ever telling the American people what it actually did with their tax dollars.
Trump did not just close an agency down and walk away. He ripped a censorship pipeline out of the federal government, handed the money to Rubio's State Department instead, and dared Power's allies to defend what it had been funding. Now that Trump shut it down, she wants sympathy instead of scrutiny.
Every dollar Power wants back for Ebola relief is a dollar that once flowed through the same pipeline that funded speech police watching your Facebook page. Americans are allowed to hold both facts in their head at the same time. Foreign aid can help sick children and still get hijacked by bureaucrats who hate the people funding it. That is exactly what happened here, and Mike Benz has the receipts to prove it.
Power had four years to come clean about the censorship money. She chose Bloomberg instead, a friendly microphone where nobody was going to ask about the Atlantic Council or the seven CIA directors on its board. Benz asked anyway, and the answer is the reason USAID does not exist anymore.
Sources:
- Fox News Digital, "Who is Samantha Power? Meet the Biden-era USAID leader facing backlash amid Musk's DOGE crackdown," Fox News, February 5, 2025.
- Daily Caller, "Mike Benz Explains Why CIA Considers Populist Movements 'A Global Menace' And How House Republicans Don't Help Matters," Daily Caller, July 30, 2025.
- Joel B. Pollak, "Samantha Power Articles," Breitbart, April 12, 2026.
- Fox News Digital, "Inside what replaced USAID: Trump's America First Global Health Strategy," Fox News, February 4, 2026.
- David Gura, "Samantha Power Interview: USAID's Dismantling, Ebola Response and Gaza Crisis," Bloomberg, June 26, 2026.
