5 highlights from Trump's Antifa roundtable: 'Protest industrial complex'
1. Antifa bankrolled by NGOs: ‘Riot, Inc.’
Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute provided details about what he described as the “protest industrial complex” and “Riot, Inc.”
“We found a network of [nongovernmental organizations]," Bruner said. "It’s not just the [George] Soros network, the Open Society network, it’s other funding networks: the Arabella funding network, the Tides funding network, Neville Roy Singham and his network, foreign cash.”
“Like any corporation, Riot, Inc. has many divisions. It doesn’t just have the Antifa boots on the ground division, it has PR divisions, it has marketing divisions, it has a very well-funded legal division to get these boots on the ground back on the streets as quickly as possible,” he said.
“We have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot, Inc. investors.”
Bruner identified “lawyer groups” and “groups that advocate for calling good, honest Americans fascists” as the recipients of the aforementioned funding, along with what he referred to as “decentralized crowdfunding platforms.” He also listed the John Brown Gun Club of Elm Fork, which had links to the recent attack on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, as another example of an organization that has been bankrolled by “Riot, Inc.”
Bruner also lamented that “more than $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funding has flowed into these funding networks, including at least $4 million to these very groups themselves.” He also mentioned groups affiliated with “an event in Atlanta called ‘Stop Cop City’” where “over 60 rioters were charged with domestic terrorism” as examples of organizations that have received taxpayer money.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
