All over America, party loyalists whose preferred candidate is President Joe Biden are engaging in lawfare to win at the ballot box by any means necessary. Some of the bad-faith actors spearheading the efforts to defeat former President Donald Trump — the GOP's far-and-away frontrunner — before Election Day even begins are beneficiaries of puppeteering philanthropist George Soros.
Shenna Bellows
Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows claims to be unbiased when she ruled that Trump is disqualified from running in the state's 2024 presidential race. But Bellows, the Democrat whose Dec. 28 ruling booted Trump off the Republican primary ballot in the northeasternmost U.S. state, previously cashed in on Soros family money.
Say what you will, @JoeBiden’s wide frame selfie game is on-point! Credit to @shennabellows’ camera for grabbing the first shot. #POTUS #AuburnManufacturing #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/KFX3k1geRZ
— Rep. Adam R. Lee (@AdamRLee2) July 28, 2023
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, during her doomed U.S. Senate bid against Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in 2014, Bellows received a $2,600 donation from Andrea Soros, the daughter of billionaire investor George Soros, who notoriously spends his wealth influencing local elections across America by bankrolling the campaigns of Democrat picks.
On the FEC filing for the contribution to Bellows For Senate, the younger Soros listed her occupation as a "foundation consultant" and address as the "family office" of Soros Fund Management, the principal asset manager for the Soros-funded grantmaking Open Society Foundations, which serves as the central hub of her financier father's anti-capitalist, redistributionist network. Andrea Soros is currently sitting on the global Open Society Board of Directors as well as its U.S. counterpart.
$2,600 donation from Andrea Soros sent to Bellows For Senate | FEC filing
Some speculate that Bellows is eyeing higher office once again, hoping that the offensive against Trump allures anti-Trump donors who could finance her future political aspirations. Aside from cash out of the Soros family's coffers, Bellows was additionally gifted tens of thousands of dollars from left-wing political action committees (PACs) and progressive mega-donors.
The list of benefactors that funded her failed 2014 run for U.S. senator includes hedge fund manager S. Donald Sussman ($5,200), who was one of Hillary Clinton's top backers on the 2016 presidential campaign trail; media mogul Fred Eychaner ($5,200), also a deep-pocketed Clinton devotee; the Soros-backed MoveOn.org PAC ($5,000), which is credited with leading the "anti-Trump resistance"; and Democracy For America PAC ($10,000+/-), which has endorsed members of the radically leftist Squad.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Maine was the second state to officially declare Trump ineligible. In Colorado, the state Supreme Court decided on Dec. 19 to enforce Trump's disqualification. Leading the charge in the Colorado case to ensure Trump's removal is the Orwellian-named Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). Between FY 2017 and 2021, CREW was given more than $2.8 million in grants by the Foundation to Promote Open Society, which acts as one of Soros's two chief grantmaking vehicles, for "general support" and "support[ing] political advocacy on ethics in government," according to an Open Society Foundations database.
Foundation to Promote Open Society's donations to CREW | Open Society Foundations database
In a 2009 televised Q&A with C-SPAN, CREW's founding executive director Melanie Sloan admitted that the agitation group is heavily funded by Soros via the Open Society Foundations, formerly the Open Society Institute, one of its "biggest" donors:
SLOAN: I would say our biggest donors are—For example, the Open Society Institute is a very big donor.
C-SPAN host BRIAN LAMB: And whose organization is that?
SLOAN: Well, it's a foundation, but it's well known to be—George Soros is the one funds it.
CREW has allegiance to the Democracy Alliance, the institutional Left's largest secretive dark-money donor club. Soros is a well-known member of this clandestine clique comprised of the ultra-wealthy. In late 2017, the Democracy Alliance distributed a chart, titled the "Resistance Map," showcasing organizations that it recommends members donate to as a means of opposing Trump's administration. On the organizational graph, CREW was spotlighted as an approved part of the money-funneling infrastructure.
Here's the Democracy Alliance's 'Resistance Map'https://t.co/G3E1u5iDEb
— Izabel (@IzabelTheodora) December 27, 2023
CREW previously shared leadership with far-left smear merchant Media Matters. Self-described Clinton enforcer David Brock, the founder of Media Matters, took over as CREW's board chairman in 2014, but the Democrat operative stepped down so that the "nonpartisan" political outfit would not appear overtly partisan. In the aftermath of Trump's 2016 victory over Clinton, Brock hosted a posh Palm Beach retreat with Democrat elites over Inauguration Weekend to scheme about "how to kick Donald Trump's ass."
Eleni Kounalakis
Spurred by Colorado's decision, California's Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis followed suit, requesting in a Dec. 20 letter that the state's Secretary of State Shirley Weber "explore every legal option" to remove Trump from the presidential primary ballot there.
Kounalakis, too, is a Soros recipient. According to campaign finance records, Soros and his wife Tamiko Bolton Soros, another Open Society Foundations board member, handed over a total of $45,400 to bolster Kounalakis' successful 2018 campaign and 2022 re-election. Now, Kounalakis is gunning for the California governorship in 2026. Last year, Soros gave Kounalakis an additional $36,400, the maximum amount allowed, just a few months after she launched her bid to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Soros donations to the Kounalakis campaign | California Secretary of State data
Free Speech for the People
Free Speech for the People is the 501(c)(3)organization that filed a flurry of lawsuits across multiple states to bar Trump from the ballot by claiming that he violated the 14th Amendment's little-used "insurrection" clause (Section 3). Dubbed the nationwide "14Point3 Campaign" in reference to the constitutional provision, the left-of-center nonprofit advanced 14th Amendment challenges in Minnesota, Michigan, Oregon, and Illinois as well as organized the most recent Massachusetts complaint.
Here's how the #TrumpIsDisqualified campaign is progressing. We have:
— Free Speech For People (@FSFP) October 4, 2023
✅ Active lawsuits in Minnesota and Michigan.
✅ New letters to Secretaries of State in Maine and Arizona.
✅ Ongoing actions across the country to ensure chief election officials bar Trump from the ballot. pic.twitter.com/7l4HU3ieQ9
In the past, Free Speech for the People was partly funded through grants awarded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which has received $1.5 million in funding from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a primary Soros grantmaker. Between 2013 and 2017, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave Free Speech for the People $275,000 in grants, according to archived 990-PF forms.
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