Mike Benz, a former State Department official in Trump’s first administration now runs the Foundation for Freedom Online. He believes he found the point at which we were all censored, possibly to protect Hillary. The term “critical infrastructure,” according to Benz, became the legal predicate for the censorship industrial complex.
Benz points to a comment in a recently declassified Bernardo email, “The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel menace [sic] since both POTUS and VPOTUS have acknowledged the fact [that] IC would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable.”
Leonard Bernardo was the Regional Director for Eurasia at The Open Society Foundations.
In a series of curse-laced posts on X, Benz lays out the magic’d up a system whereby elections would now become “critical infrastructure” run by the feds. The vulgarity doesn’t help the story, at least not for me, but it’s worth reading.
The “Critical Infrastructure” Hoax And How It Permanently Altered The Course Of American History https://t.co/qXev04WQOh pic.twitter.com/EvS6ETEXoj
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 31, 2025
3. Note, for example, how DHS — who mass censored virtually the entire Trump movement during the 2020 election — got away with censoring by citing power to “protect critical infrastructure” of elections from “misinformation”, self-aware they bumped up against the First Amendment https://t.co/5irhrRJofI pic.twitter.com/zNSxEwoevA
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 31, 2025
5. IF YOU WERE CENSORED IN 2020 FOR QUESTIONING MAIL-IN BALLOTS OR VOTING MACHINES, THIS CLASSIFIED ANNEX TODAY IS WHY. Here’s a medium-length primer on how US government used this unbelievably deceitful false predicate of “critical infrastructure” to censor MILLIONS in the 2020… pic.twitter.com/5VU7IwjHr4
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 1, 2025
7. It is no coincidence both the cooked crooked intelligence community report launching Russiagate and the DHS federal takeover of elections as “critical infrastructure” (citing the same-day Russiagate intelligence assessment) BOTH happened on January 6, 2017. That was the SAME… pic.twitter.com/sOYYy2ZMwV
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 1, 2025
8. And in fact, that is exactly the time sequence of how it played out on January 6, 2017. First, at 1:41pm, Congress certified Trump’s election win. Then, with Trump’s win now final and no hope left for the intelligence community to obstruct it, then suddenly, magically, the… pic.twitter.com/lffhPW8jtY
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 1, 2025
As I was canvassing and doing surveys for the GOP in PA in 2020, I probably had a good percentage of those 22 million tweets and social media posts against the. ‘critical Infrastructure’. We had GOP watchers thrown out, 1100 Mules, USPS trucks delivering out of state ballots as the vote count stopped in the middle of the night. Our… Read more »
The RINO’s are STILL RINO’s. The electorate has made strides in eliminating the fake legacy that props them up…but seemingly there is still a long road to travel…