WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump and his top officials have vowed to use the full weight of the federal government to bring down Antifa. President Trump even pledged to go after Antifa’s finances and designate it as an “international” terrorist organization.
Along with the Trump administration, multiple research groups are actively working to track down who is funding Antifa. Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute, told The National News Desk, many activist groups are linked to nonprofit organizations, some with tax-exempt status. Oftentimes, getting money from large grant-giving foundations.
So what they’re required to disclose to the IRS is something called a 990 form. So you can trace a lot of money that way,” Schweizer said.
In other cases, Schweizer said you can also find people bragging about the support they’ve offered and given to certain groups.
The information that comes out is not always a complete picture but I think it’s a pretty good indicator of who the money is coming from and who is receiving the money and what they’re using it for,” said Schweizer.
At Trump’s Antifa roundtable last week, Schweizer’s colleague Seamus Bruner shared with the administration what they’ve found so far. Including what he calls “Riot Inc.”
Dozens of radical organizations that have received more than $100 million from the Riot Inc. investors,” Bruner said.
Bruner also pointed to GAI investigations that showed coordination across cities like Portland, Oregon, Seattle and Chicago, involving people who were paid to participate in the unrest. Bruner named some major funding sources, like George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
The Arabella Funding Network, the Tides Funding Network, Neville Roy Singham and his network,” said Bruner.
The Capital Research Center is another group researching extremist groups. President Scott Walter told The National News Desk, part of it is understanding the landscape. For example, the National Lawyers Guild, which Walter said is the legal auxiliary for Antifa, shows up any time there’s a protest turned into a riot.
That’s so that the National Lawyers Guild lawyers can both try and keep the police away from activists or intimidate the police,” said Walter.
Walter added that in one of the Center’s recent reports, revealing how a growing number of organizations in the homelessness policy space are aligned with radical and extremist worldviews, it found a group called the ‘Western Regional Advocacy Project’ that gets funding from The Tides Network.
Quite a number of folks who seem to be comfortable with the idea of violence, lets put it that way, receive serious Tides funding,” Walter said.
Both Schweizer and Walter also say they look for specific code words or phrases, typically used on the left, to describe violence. Or at a minimum, aggressive protesting. One of those phrases is ‘direct action.’
