Amid President Donald Trump officially designating Antifa a domestic terror organization, a new report details how a prominent billionaire may be funneling millions to extremist groups engaging in violent uprisings nationwide.
A new report from Capital Research Center details how billionaire George Soros's Open Society Foundations has given more than $80 million to groups "tied to terrorism or extremist violence."
The foundation has awarded more than $23 million to seven groups "that directly assist domestic terrorism and criminality" in the U.S., including engaging or providing material support to "violence, property destruction, economic sabotage, harassment" among others that meet the domestic terrorism definition, according to the report.
The report, authored by Ryan Mauro, details a nexus between domestic terror activities and support for international terrorism, specifically Hamas, in addition to communist sympathizers.
"Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in 'direct actions' that the FBI defines as domestic terrorism," according to the report. "These groups include the Center for Third World Organizing and its militant partner Ruckus Society, which trained activists in property destruction and sabotage during the 2020 riots, the Sunrise Movement, which endorsed the Antifa-linked Stop Cop City campaign, in which activists currently face over 40 domestic terrorism charges and 60 racketeering indictments."
The report highlights the Sunrise Movement, which it says has received at least $2 million from Open Society, adding that it has "endorsed and solicited financial support" for Antifa-associated groups such as Stop Cop City/Defend the Atlanta Forest coalition. The coalition has been tied to arson and violence against law enforcement and utility workers, including an attack on the construction of a police training center by throwing Molotov cocktails, bricks and rocks, as well as setting construction equipment on fire.
As part of its outreach, the Sunrise movement has urged supporters to donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, which supports protestors in various capacities, including legal defense and physical supplies, according to the report.
"The Fund admits it posts bail and provides legal defenses for the arrested protestors. Prosecutors allege it also provides funds for ammunition, surveillance equipment, handheld radios, a drone, and an array of camping supplies for Stop Cop City terrorist activities," according to the report.
Among the other groups Open Society supports, according to the report, is $400,000 since 2020 to the Center for Third World Organizing/Ruckus Society/BlackOUT Collective. The report claims the group "boasts it 'threw down with people in the streets'" during the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020.
