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The country is witnessing the second high-profile lynching effort of Justice Clarence Thomas. Even while the media ignores the millions from foreign nationals passing through shell companies to the Biden family, it has pushed invented scandals for Thomas while demanding his resignation to make way for a radical leftist Biden court appointee.
While no one expects anything but lies and smears from the media, few are aware of how the smear campaign against Justice Thomas was organized and who is funding it.
Before it was splashed all over the media, the Clarence Thomas smears were mostly generated by ProPublica with articles such as “Clarence Thomas’ Secret Life of Luxury” then rebroadcast by the media in stories such as “ProPublica: GOP megadonor paid private school tuition for grandnephew of Justice Clarence Thomas” which keep the smear campaign going.
While the media is deeply interested in who paid for Thomas’ grandnephew’s education, it’s uninterested in where the money that funds ProPublica’s smear campaign is coming from.
ProPublica has amplified the coverage of Harlan Crow, a conservative donor who is friendly with Thomas, but is less interested in discussing some of the men who back its operations. Its leftist smear campaigns are funded by the man who helped bring down the economy with his abusive tactics, a former Enron executive and FTX crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
The money that brought down banks is now trying to bring down a Supreme Court Justice.
ProPublica is a leftist nonprofit set up as an “ethical watchdog” by Herbert Sandler, listed by Time Magazine, as one of the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis of 2008, and more bluntly by Saturday Night Live as, ““people who should be shot”. (In a sign of the power and influence of the Sandlers, the SNL skit was quickly censored and cannot be found on NBC.)
Flush with billions from selling off their Golden West mortgage company, which had used “misleading” ads to prey on minority borrowers, to Wachovia Bank, tanking it and helping cause the financial crisis, Herbert invested his money in social justice.
And that made him “the man who made ProPublica possible.”
ProPublica had gotten its initial funding with the money harvested by Sandler from taking down Wachovia, and, more recently, it was promised $10 million by Sam-Bankman Fried whose collapse of FTX helped bring down Silicon Valley Bank and cause the worst wave of bank failures since the Wachovia collapse. When bad men bring down banks with their financial abuses, they write a check to ProPublica while their victims lose everything.
ProPublica, which claims that its mission is to “expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust”, makes no mention of any of this in its profile of Sandler: its beloved founder and chairman whose corrupt greed destroyed the financial security of millions of Americans.
Instead, ProPublica claims that Golden West, which took down the economy, “was considered to be one of the best managed financial institutions in the country” and “most admired savings institution”. This is exactly the kind of “fearless journalism” that has embedded ProPublica’s privately-funded smear campaigns against Republicans in media outlets across America.
ProPublica’s shameless lies are understandable as Sandler chaired the leftist smear group until his demise and Steve Daetz, the deputy general counsel at Golden West, and president of the Sandler Foundation, serves as one of ProPublica’s directors, and the Sandler Foundation continues to fund ProPublica’s smear campaigns of Republicans.
In addition to ProPublica’s origins in the money that helped take down the economy, its leading supporters include John D. Arnold, a former Enron executive who became the youngest billionaire in the country, and the leftist smear group was recently forced to give up $1.6 million from FTX crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried that was originally part of a $10 million grant.
When taking Bankman-Fried’s millions, ProPublica President Robin Sparkman claimed that the money would be used to “hold power accountable”. The exposure of FTX did not come from ProPublica’s vaunted “investigative journalism that holds power accountable” and the leftist group dragged its feet on giving up its latest pile of dirty money until late December 2022.
No word from ProPublica on whether FTX was also “one of the best managed financial institutions in the country”. Or was $10 million not enough to buy such shameless lies?
ProPublica’s list of its “leading” supporters is uniquely tilted to wealthy men in the financial industry who may be in a position to profit from a shift in the Supreme Court. The list of backers for ProPublica’s public smear campaigns includes hedge fund, private equity and venture capital figures. And those who are closely associated with them and their financial interests.
In a word, Wall Street and the Bay Area. Unlike Sandler and Bankman-Fried, there’s no scandal or investigation attached to the majority of such funding sources, but they do raise questions.
While ProPublica draws on money from the usual lefty foundations including Carnegie, W.K. Kellogg F, John S. and James L. Knight, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation whose money can usually be found around nearly every leftist cause, it also draws on a large number of financial industry donors including S Donald Sussman, a hedge fund executive and party megadonor, Tom Unterman, a venture capital firm founder, Mark Colodny, a managing director at Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm, Bruce Golden, a venture capital firm founder, and Mitchell Lasky, a general partner at a venture capital firm.
Ronald Olson, famous as Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg’s lawyer, as well as the lawyer handling Bill Gates’ divorce battle, is a ProPublica director and a major financial supporter. Olson is also a director at Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson. The ‘Munger’ is Charlie Munger: Buffett’s partner. Olson is also a Biden donor and sat on the board of Bill Clinton’s defense fund for his Whitewater and Paula Jones scandals.
What impact would removing Justice Clarence Thomas from the Supreme Court have on the finances of Berkshire Hathaway and the potential cases of a ‘super-lawyer’ who is rated as being able to argue cases before the Supreme Court? Olson testified at Justice Clarence Thomas’ Senate hearings and, as the LA Times put it, “chaired the American Bar Assn. committee that rated Clarence Thomas barely qualified for the U. S. Supreme Court.”
Another financial mastermind backing ProPublica is Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz, a Sequoia Capital partner, and major Democrat donor who has also funded dirty operations like Pacronym, American Bridge and the Lincoln Project.
The ProPublica money that raises the most questions comes from an unlikely source: the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Best known for its Golden Globe awards, the HFPA is a collection of foreign reporters that cover Hollywood. The Golden Globe awards are used to fund the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Charitable Trust which is supposed to be a charity funding “entertainment-related charities”. It’s not clear how smearing the only black man on the Supreme Court qualifies as an “entertainment-related” charitable cause.
I ended up playing a small role in the leftist hijacking of the HFPA when a former president sent out one of my Front Page Magazine articles which discussed the connections between Hollywood and BLM, only to be promptly purged and denounced by the organization..
The ugly act of political censorship, widely covered in headlines such as “Former HFPA President Calls BLM a ‘Racist Hate Movement'” and “Former HFPA president blasted over Black Lives Matter” played into a pressure campaign by leftist groups to which the HFPA surrendered. Its funding of ProPublica, a leftist attack dog group which has nothing to do with scholarships for filmmakers or protecting the culture of film, its stated goals, may have been one of the payoffs.
But the funding from HFPA raises its own legal and ethical questions.
The HFPA’s members are not necessarily American citizens and cannot fund political campaigns. While ProPublica is a 501(c)(3) which currently can be funded by foreign donors, at least until necessary reforms prevent the infusion of foreign money into American politics are put into place, its campaigns are obviously directed at achieving Democrat political goals.
While there is currently nothing technically illegal about foreign donors funding a campaign to force a Supreme Court justice off the bench, the problems with such a move are obvious.
Despite claiming to follow ethical standards and even to impose them on others, ProPublica has failed to distinguish which of its political activities are financed by American or foreign donors.
Could foreign money be financing its lynching of Justice Clarence Thomas?
We certainly know that dirty money, the cash that brought down two waves of banks, that destroyed the livelihoods and incomes of millions of Americans, is now trying to bring down a Supreme Court justice.
Secret life of luxury. At 74 years of age, a life of luxury is being pain free.
poor irrelevant little peabrain sasha, sooooooo jealous of JEWS – get lost
What are you talking about?
a lowlife calling itself sasha made an anti semitic comment that has been removed. but my response to the turd has not – sorry for the confusion 🙂
Yes, pain sucks ass.
Ugh. I’d settle for it being dialed down a couple of notches. Pain free is a fantasy for me and always has been, but getting great medical care and having a doctor who prescribes the meds that I need to function helps a lot. I’m one of the lucky ones.
The Democrat Party never changes in it racism —THE PARTY OF SLAVERY—But, the new slaves are the ILLEGAL ALIENS—they are throwing the Negro BASE “under the bus”. The reason I left the Party was their part in the assassination team used to murder the last Democrat I voted for Robert Kennedy—shot from behind ( Sirhan was in front) , just lie Ron Brown was shot in the top of his head to save Bill Clinton from CHINA GATE. Democrat Rats are at the helm.
I do not want to be trite, but the following is true. Years ago I was ‘running’ for public office, and while doing this I happened to stop at a rural county newspaper office. There prominently displayed behind the customer counter in the newspaper lobby was a large poster which read: EVERYTHING THAT I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW IN LIFE I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN (i.e., sharing, truthfulness, etc.). In the years since, I have thought about this saying from time to time. It is a true statement. And this leads me to my point. Most important principles in life are simple, and we learned them when we were very young. I think of one such principle which I must have heard a thousand times. There was a Jewish jeweler in the city near where I grew up, and he had a broadcast commercial that he played constantly (kind of like Mike Lindell today): If you don’t know jewels, know your jeweler, and if Harold says it’s so, it’s so.” After ALL that we have experienced in the last several years from the political left, I really do not NEED to know a lot about someone (although that would always be nice) today when I am assessing that person for public office etc. There are just some basic characteristics which tell me ALL THAT I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT A PERSON, and 99 times out of a 100 I will be proved right in my initial assessment of him/her! This article proves my point.
We could also learn from dogs. They believe what you do over what you say.
You can never expect a human to equal a dog for loyalty, unconditional love, and empathy. It would be wrong to expect a human to be that good, though it’s a delightful surprise when they turn out to be.
An act of Congress in 1956 made “In God We Trust” the official national motto of the United States.
Unofficially………
This is how the left operates but especially in the political arena
I am surprised that Soros money was not listed as a source for ProPubica. Yeah I meant that misspelling.
He funds many organizations & most of them are several levels down from his umbrella organizations so that their origins are not obvious or clear.
Yes I knew that. But one would think the author might have done a little research.
Well, our garbage elites are masters of the dirty smear, but they say they can’t abide old fashioned lying. That’s right, the Democ-rat Just-Us Department. has just indicted Republican congressman George Santos for misrepresenting his biography, a/k/a LYING. Yet, the shady Democ-rat scum has never stopped slinging “pubic hair” calumnies at Justice Clarence Thomas. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
major crime: not being a Democrat. If he was, he’d get a pass and maybe a medal for it.
Santos is pond scum. It’s a damned shame he’s not also a Democrat, since he’s fit right in with them.
“WHEN, NOT IF, The Com-Left controls SCOTUS, they will Rule that the Constitution itself is unconstitutional!”
“Using the Freedoms in the Constitution to overthrow the Constitution!”
On Larry Elder: “The Blackface of White Supremacy.” Names and labels for Thomas too! They can’t stand one lost Black/Minority vote!
Cory Booker: “Our Founding was rooted in White Supremacy!” (Didn’t he, and others, take an Oath to Defend the Founders Constitution?)
Mob Rule=Mob Justice=Lynch Mobs all controlled by the Democratic Party!
The Blatant and Open Rise of Bl-ack Supremacy thanks to their leader, Barack Obama who is continuing Rev. Wright’s Black Liberation Theology!
Black’s only Graduations, dorms, classes, safe spaces, TV shows. Demands of Black awards! Black’s only Student Unions. WHERE’S WOULD A ROSA PARKS?
“MLK’s DREAM turned into his Worst NIGHTMARE now that people are hired, appointed, and Elected based ONLY on the Color of their skin, their LGBTQWXYZ Status, and political agenda, and NOT on the Content of their Qualifications!”
And if they succeed in bringing Justice Thomas down, what next? A packed court filled with Leftist justices? It looks like there is no end in sight to what the Left won’t do.
By any means necessary is definitely their rule of thumb. I mean, if murder is the yardstick by which you operate, there’s nothing you won’t do. Not even trafficking and torturing children. And making piles of money doing it. There are no words adequate to describe their evil. No hyperbole intended.
Clarence Thomas said he would rather die than withdraw from the nomination process. I think the same could be said for his stance against the most recent spate of attempts to disqualify and remove him. God bless him!
The left’s hatred of Thomas is no doubt greatly enhanced by his black skin. He is the wrong kind of Negro. He is supposed to be defined by his would-be masters, and that means deference and obedience to their agenda.
Justice Thomas adds insult to injury by being married to Ginny Thomas, whose skin tone is not the same as his. More power to both these remarkable people.
G0d bless Justice Thomas indeed! He is a great American and a strong defender of the Bill of Rights, especially 2A, which protects the other nine. He is a man we need desperately now.
We can only hope that he does not die mysteriously as Justice Scalia did, with the body cremated almost immediately after. I am still not altogether convinced that his death was natural, but think it possible that Mrs. Scalia, in shock and mourning, was visited by someone from government who said, “Nice big family you’ve got here. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them,” and signed the appropriate documents to have him cremated in spite of the family’s strong Roman Catholic faith.
Justice Scalia was one of two justices surveilled by the HAMMR. The other judge was Roberts.
The Globalists oppose Judges that uphold the U.S. Constitution they only want Judges loyal to the UN and the World Court system the WCC that’s why the Democrats dragged out Anitta Hill against Thomas and showed her with awards for her false statements
Their playbook remains intact today.
The Supreme Court is an illusion whose time has come and gone.
In 2020 when the SCOTUS refused to hear Trump’s election fraud case based on “lack of standing”……….the fate of the US was sealed.
Bill O’Reilly(who I am not a fan of) said two weeks before the 2020 election something that was very prescient.
He said that the SCOTUS would never over-turn a fraudulent election due to the fact that they were terrified of the BLM/Antifa street thugs and the damage to people and property that they would surely inflict.
The single most important court case in US history…………….and the US Supreme Court cave in to cowardice.
What happens to Judge Thomas(who I very much like) is inconsequential at this point.
The ruling by the SCOTUS was the exact moment that US citizens lost their Constitutional Republic AND THEIR government OF & FOR the people to a government OVER the people. When voters cannot have highly questionable election results honestly investigated, their REPRESENTATION in THEIR government is not guaranteed. They no longer have a government that represents them or one they own. They have a government chosen by those who count the votes. That is what the people in the old USSR gad.
Have you not noticed that we now have a government OVER the people instead of one OF & FOR the people? Without voting integrity, there can be no REPRESENTATIVE government!
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Josef Stalin
“Taxation without representation is tyranny.”
The original slogan of the American revolution…………and entirely applicable to today.
All of our narcissistic and overpaid media darlings have not managed to re-visit the first battle cry.
They wear a lot of make-up and congratulate themselves over foppish platitudes.
Biden intends to pack the courts with socialists who rule by their political views, instead of upholding the laws already written, and get rid of another Conservative justice, Clarence Thomas. More and more people know about the plots to get rid of Antonin Scalia….they have to whittle down any rational Conservative judges who create a balance of Law and Order. The New World Order is all about changing times and laws that were put in place that protect people and society.. Its the breakdown of lawfulness.
Call me Disappointed…Don’t accept Gifts and Fail to report.
We have a SCOTUS crisis and …where is Gorsuch?
Roberts is a Ten Million Dollar Man…Sold out
We have Bolshevik justices at least 3
What is US SCOTUS of the future?
The media is now a free agent. It can do whatever it wants to whomever it wants so long as it doesn’t bite the hand that feeds. People might even resent the media but it does them little good because the hegemony goes beyond resentment, Some people were sceptical of Pravda. They could be sceptical as long as they didn’t get anywhere.
“The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.””
“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper on guard. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country who begs for admittance to the Law.”
Where’s that second quote from? Dickens’s “Bleak House”?
Kafka, “The Trial”. One of my favorite books 🙂
Most realistic book I ever read 🙂
Great article, Daniel. No one gets a pass in the culture wars.
Anita Hill the notorious for trying to keep Thomas from being confirmed just because Thomas Rejects racial preferences and supports the 2nd Amendment
Keep writing, Daniel. Expose the bastards.
THEY ARE DOING THIS BECAUSE (SCOTUS-CT) SHOCKED THE WORLD…HE SAVED AMERICA!!!
WE MUST DEFEND THIS PATRIOT WITH ALL WE HAVE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, MR. CL- CLARENCE THOMAS !!!
Where is all this hanky panky going?
When, by whom and how will it be stopped?
Perhaps when the government decides to take away the gen z’ers’ inheritable parents’ bank accounts, property and retirement money.
Will that wake up the woke young folk?
Gen z’ers certainly aren’t thinking about their future and future children right now.
Well, just a hopeful thought.
Wait until the government that these spoiled brats voted for and cheered restores a ruinous inheritance tax. Won’t it be a nice bit of schadenfreude to seem them learn that they will inherit only 5 or 10% of their parents’ wealth and the government will take the rest?
The left will always fund to go after the right. On the same token the right does the same thing to the left. The question is was this fake news or did he really get these benefits? As a conservative Jew, I realize that most of supporters on this site are extreme right. Jews do better at the center, being center right or center left. When you are right and you turn right you meet the left that turned left. They are all antisemites. Unfortunately the extreme right is in bed with neo Nazis and white supremacy.
[i]”Could foreign money be financing its lynching of Justice Clarence Thomas?”[/i]
I would say it’s USD laundered through Ukraine.
Mr Greenfield,
You always leave your readers with more Truth and Wisdom than they possessed before reading your articles.
And if a Democracy is an enlightened citizenry than you are single handedly restoring our Democracy.
Thank you and God Bless!
Jim Gill