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- Read and share my full breakdown @FoxNewsOpinion
@FoxNews: https://foxnews.com/opinion/asra-nomani-2-1-billion-machine-behind-spontaneous-anti-trump-protests
- Explore the database here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16GChwHCZHjHuEsLkErMWBcuSqq4L616BjXsHZgZVang/edit?usp=sharing
(Enjoy, @DataRepublican, and share with me any recommendations to make this better!)
Why follow the money? Because from Los Angeles to D.C., we’ve seen these protests escalate into violence—and we must understand who’s behind them to understand why.
These aren’t mom-and-pop protestors. This is an elite class of political influencers using nonprofit structures to operate like a shadow government. Just look at their annual salaries:
- Randi Weingarten: $474,951
- Al Sharpton: $648,786
- ACLU’s Anthony Romero: $1.3 million
Fairfax County citizen Lissa Kenkel @NOVAHopeSo, who helped me cull the financial data, puts it well:
“The very people bankrolling and leading these so-called grassroots movements are the crowned royalty of the nonprofit world, sitting in their air-conditioned offices, collecting six-figure salaries, while encouraging the common folk to torch their own cities in the name of ‘saving democracy.’"
"It’s manufactured chaos, sold as revolution, by people who wouldn’t last five minutes in the rubble they’re creating.”
Here’s the #NoKings protest funding breakdown, and I'll list all the groups in a thread:
- 3 official entities of the Democratic National Committee: College Democrats of America, Manhattan Young Democrats and Westside Democratic Headquarters in Norwalk, Calif.
- 16 Democratic political action committees, or PACs, including Friends of Bernie Sanders, Progressive Democrats of America and Vote Blue — with about $19.4 million in spending power for Democratic political candidates.