Dark Money 2: Unmasking the Shadows: Antifa’s Funding Networks, By Chris Knight (Florida)

Here I will look further into the shadowy funding behind Antifa and the broader "protest industrial complex." If you've been following the news, you caught that bombshell White House roundtable on October 9, 2025, where President Trump got briefed on how over $100 million, possibly way more, per Elon Musk's X quip, has flowed into NGOs fuelling nationwide chaos. Seamus Bruner from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) laid it out like a thriller plot: A web of elite donors, foreign cash, and tax-exempt orgs bankrolling riots, bail funds, and activist ops. This isn't conspiracy fodder; it's backed by investigations, retractions, and public records.

It all kicked off at that Antifa roundtable at the White House, where journalists shared horror stories of assaults, but the real mic-drop came from Bruner. As GAI's Director of Research, he told Trump: "This is not just a story about violence and chaos … this is a money story." He mapped out a "protest industrial complex" where dozens of radical orgs snag over $100 million from big-league investors to sustain decentralised mayhem. Think Antifa's black-bloc tactics in Portland or Chicago, coordinated, equipped, and bailed out post-arrest.

Musk jumped in on X, amplifying a clip of Bruner's briefing: "Way more than $100M of US taxpayer money." That's the taxpayer twist, some of this cash loops through NGOs that hoover up federal grants. The briefing built on a New York Times report from earlier in October, citing a Capital Research Center (CRC) study: Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) poured $80 million to pro-terror groups, some overlapping with protest networks. Trump vowed a "whole-of-government" probe, echoing his calls for RICO charges against Soros-linked entities.

This isn't new, conservatives have flagged it since 2020 riots, but 2025's escalation (post-Dobbs church arsons, anti-ICE attacks) has ramped up scrutiny. GAI's tagline? "Follow the money." And boy, does it lead to some elite doors, as we saw in the first part of this essay.