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01 May 2023
Betsy DeVos's foundation funds anti-gender campaigning across the world.

And then when you look at the The sort of background of her and her family, you start to see, okay, well, she was part of this thing called the Dutch Reformed Church, which is a very reactionary church, very anti-abortion, very anti-LGBT. Her foundation that she runs with her husband funds anti-gender organising, anti-gender campaigning all across the world, as does the foundation that is linked to her family, the Prince family.

10 Nov 2021
Becoming an elected official in the American system requires significant financial backing from a small number of wealthy donors.

Well, I mean, you think of like, oh, billionaires, evil billionaires choose the leaders of the world, but then you look at the American system and it's like, well, you can't become an elected official without a lot of money behind you. At least on a high level. Yeah, exactly. At least on a high level. So, who's giving them that money? It's a small number of people, and it feels like, oh, well, if they give you the most money, then they have chosen that you will be the next elected official.

08 Oct 2021
Corporate America funds politicians and PACs with large sums of money.

My book, The Great Patriot Protest, a boycott book, is all about making us the loud majority. We've got to be loud. We've got to tell corporate America that writes all the checks and backs all these politicians and backs all the PACs, not with $10 like you and I give, or $100 or $1,000. They write $1 million and $10 million checks. So the politicians listen to them, and we've got to bring them to their knees and starve them.

12 Feb 2020
Alex Jones claims that billionaires like Jeff Bezos fund Bernie Sanders and Black Lives Matter.

And then there's everybody else who just wants to go home and watch Netflix. And, you know, hear some stuff from Jeff Bezos, some Black Lives Matter. Let's kill the cops. And you're just like, it doesn't even fit. And you got these billionaires sitting up there funding Bernie Sanders, by the way.

30 Jan 2019
The Koch brothers were the primary funders of organizations that fostered the right-wing movement discussed in the report.

And I think that's kind of wrong of us, but at the same time, they were the primary funders of Citizens for a Sound Economy that split into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, which were the biggest funders of people like Glenn Beck and helped foster this movement. It's not to say that they were the only super-rich right-wing people behind it.

17 Jan 2019
Rich conservative interests made a concerted effort to shift right-wing politics toward extremism during the 2012 election cycle.

There is a concerted effort on the part of very rich conservative interests to shift the politics of the right to a more extreme version of conservatism in the 2012 election cycle and before, but that was crunch time.

10 Dec 2018
The same financial backers who supported Glenn Beck's rise likely fund Alex Jones to serve as a more extreme version of him.

I don't think that this is necessarily what happened, but I would not be surprised at all if the same people who were paying for Glenn Beck and his rise to prominence were also eventually paying Alex Jones to serve as the more extreme version of him. Right. I think that serves all of their purposes incredibly well.

10 Oct 2018
Democratic Party operatives are funded by George Soros and the Chinese government.

We have seen a collection of Democratic Party operatives. Try to block the nomination of a good man to the Supreme Court. But really here is a referendum on the intimidation and the bullying of the left. That's what's exciting. You've got all these, admittedly, George Soros and Democratic Party and Chinese government funded. That's even in mainstream news.

17 Jul 2017
Alex Jones would accept $10 million from Donald Trump if there were no strings attached.

You know, the problem is, if I got money from Trump, then people would claim that... I was beholden to him, and that I've been bought by Trump. You know, they already say the Koch brothers have bought me when they own the Democrats and Republicans, and I attack both parties and never gotten a single dime from the Koch brothers. So, you know, it's really good that we just support ourselves with the products we sell and the services we have, but if there was no strings attached, I'd take $10 million from Trump and put it in this operation and have a big effect.