Government Accountability Institute’s Director of Research Seamus Bruner joined The Capitol Report with a warning — America’s unrest isn’t organic. It’s financed.
Bruner described a “protest industrial complex” — a maze of nonprofits, donor networks, and dark money channels quietly fueling violent demonstrations at ICE facilities and beyond.
Behind it, he said, stand familiar far-left financiers: George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Arabella network, the Tides Foundation, and a tangle of foreign billionaires with deep pockets and deeper motives.
“Like every corporation, Riot Inc. has many divisions. Yes, it has the boots on the ground — a foot soldier division, which is Antifa — but it also has a communications and PR division. It has a very well-funded legal division. And it also has investors, like most corporations. And so we really focus on the investors of rioting,” Bruner said.
Bruner continued: “That would be, of course, the Soros Open Society Network. There are other funding networks people haven’t heard of, like the Arabella and Tides networks. And there’s also foreign investors, like Neville Roy Singham, who is a name that people are starting to become familiar with. There’s also the Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss — he’s pouring in tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars, actually, into the American political process — and many of those dollars go into Riot Inc.”
The money, Bruner explained, doesn’t just come from the private donors on the left. Taxpayer dollars often seep in too, through federal and state grants that act as “force multipliers” for political movements cloaked in activism.
He argued the fix isn’t complicated: enforce the law. Crack down on the violent agitators, follow the money, and cut off the funding streams that let radicals masquerade as reformers.
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