In June of this year, massive protests broke out in the United States against raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in Los Angeles, which spread to other cities and states over the course of the summer. The protests were coordinated by the pro-Chinese Socialist and Liberation Party (PSL) and the pacifist coalition ANSWER.
The protests continued in the following months, with it emerging that the demonstrators were supported not only by these organizations and Beijing-friendly billionaire Neville Singham, but also by local political forces associated with the Democratic Party.
Consulting firms with political backgrounds
In addition to ANSWER, openly activist funds such as Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture also supported the radical left-wing protesters. According to an investigative report by the Wired portal, the former invested millions of dollars in bribing internet celebrities, paying them $8,000 per appearance.
However, behind these funds is a parent organization—the consulting firm Arabella Advisors.
As the independent Government Accountability Institute (GAI) pointed out, this company is at the head of a network known as the Dark Money Network.
However, billionaires such as George Soros, Bill Gates, and Jeffrey Epstein's former employee Reid Hoffman—founder of the LinkedIn network and co-founder of PayPal together with Elon Musk—have long worked with (and invested in) Arabella.
Even the normally liberal Atlantic magazine—whose editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was caught communicating with the Trump administration on the Signal app—admitted right in the headline that Arabella is a group that operates with “dark money.”
Its founder, Eric Kessler, boasted in an interview that the company spends about $5 billion annually on “progressive” campaigns. One of Arabella's financiers is the ‘obscure’ Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, whom the AP agency also reported on as a “financier” for Democratic political projects.
In addition to Wyss and the aforementioned Soros, the consulting firm Arabella has also received long-term support from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, investment magnate Warren Buffett, and the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, as one of the leading analysis portals, Influence Watch, pointed out.
Arabella also invested more than $114 million in June to cover the financial expenses of the No Kings protests. Analyst Seamus Brunner also pointed out that this coalition of shadowy financiers had also supported the Coalition for Humane Immigration Reform (CHIRLA), as reported by the newspaper Štandard.
Paradoxically, No Kings protested against the “billionaires” who allegedly bribe Donald Trump's government – with the support of billionaires who had already bribed Bill Clinton's government.
The billionaires distance themselves from the “princess with the magic ring”
When analytical accounts on Network X began to investigate the financing of the anti-Trump protests, Microsoft founder Bill Gates quietly ended his collaboration with Arabella at the end of August. This move was even noticed by the New York Times.
During its 16-year collaboration with the consulting firm, the Gates Foundation donated around $450 million to support the left-wing agenda, the NYT added. The way Arabella uses these funds is referred to as “fiscal sponsorship.” The aforementioned media outlets explained the company's method as covering the operating costs of smaller activist groups or political action committees (PACs).
“In practice, fiscal sponsorship means the promotion of hundreds of ‘front groups’ by internal non-profit organizations... These ‘front groups’ are basically just websites designed to look like independent non-profit organizations,” Influence Watch explained.
The portal referred to an investigation by the parent think tank Capital Research Center, which found that the goal is to conceal efforts to obscure financial flows, “since it is virtually impossible to trace individual grants to affiliated non-profit organizations of a particular ‘fake’ group.”
Protest industry complex and financing of violence
At a press conference on Antifa, the aforementioned representatives of the GAI Institute announced the “uncovering of a multi-million dollar network” that analyst Brunner described as a “protest industry complex.”
Arabella and its seven subordinate funds—whose focus ranges from promoting renewable energy sources to abortion—are likely to come under scrutiny from the federal government. Trump classified the Antifa movement as a “domestic terrorist organization” at the end of September and promised to punish its sponsors as well.
The US president's executive order instructs security agencies to “investigate, disrupt, and dismantle all illegal activities carried out by Antifa or persons who finance these actions.”
“Individuals associated with Antifa and acting on its behalf continue to coordinate with other organizations and actors to spread, promote, and amplify political violence and suppress legitimate political expression,” the White House said.
The Department of Justice can primarily use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act) against individuals such as Singham. However, if the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uncovers links between American Antifa and Canadian or European Antifa, left-wing extremists could be classified as an “international terrorist organization,” which would provide another argument for deploying the army on the streets.
Scenarios of “combat games”
However, this “guide to success” poses a danger—Trump's opponents, who have been preparing hypothetical plans since the 2020 election year in case Trump refuses to leave the White House after his defeat by Joe Biden, are counting on precisely such steps by the Trump administration.
We are talking about an organization called the Transition Integrity Project (TIP). This self-proclaimed guardian of the “integrity of the transition of power” has devised several scenarios, a kind of “war games,” some of which led to secession (separation) of opposition states and the threat of a new civil war.
Although TIP styles itself as a “nonpartisan” (bipartisan) organization, John Podesta, former White House chief of staff under Bill Clinton and head of Hillary Clinton's election campaign, appears on the Democratic side. On the other side of the imaginary street, however, are people like David Frum (speechwriter for George Bush), Michael Steele (former head of the Republican Party), and Bill Kristol (Zionist billionaire, founder of the “Republicans Against Trump” alliance).
Virtually all representatives of the Republican side of TIP profile themselves as absolute opponents of Donald Trump, which has led to criticism of the entire project for its lack of balance. However, this criticism has shifted to the point where the draft scenarios are being portrayed as “incitement” to civil war.
It is ironic that TIP accused Trump of planning a “preemptive amnesty for all” — a move that Biden ultimately took at the end of his term.
However, it must be clarified that TIP was founded as a short-term project under the leadership of another non-governmental organization called Protect Democracy. This was founded in 2016 by three lawyers from the Barack Obama era White House advisory team – Ian Bassin, Justin Florence, and Emily Loeb.
This puts the people around former President Obama back in the spotlight. This last happened after the Russiagate affair was uncovered, when the head of the intelligence service, Tulsi Gabbard, revealed a coordinated campaign by the then directors of the FBI and CIA aimed at discrediting Trump.
But it also means that Trump and his supporters could use these revelations to further escalate tensions within society if they learn about them.