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Who’s Paying For Minnesota’s Mayhem?
Issues & Insights ^ | 6 Feb, 2026 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 02/08/2026 5:59:00 AM PST by MtnClimber

The violence and size of the anti-ICE riots in Minnesota took federal officials by surprise. But maybe they shouldn’t be shocked. As it turns out, and as is often the case when it comes to far-left demonstrations, outside money, organizations and foreign influence are firing the revolt.

As Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche this week told “The Ingraham Angle,” investigators discovered a “massive fraud going on all through Minneapolis, all through Minnesota, and suddenly it turned. It turned almost on a dime, and it became suddenly all about ICE, all about getting ICE out and how horrible ICE was doing,”

Yes, the Minnesota “uprising” as some call it bears all the signs of strategic planning and financing guiding the local demonstrators. It’s not spontaneous.

Last Friday’s “ICE-Out” demonstration that drew 15,000 is a clear example.

“Anti-ICE protests in Minnesota may appear to be ‘grassroots’ efforts organized by concerned citizens, but they’re really funded with megadonor money — some coming from China,” the New York Post reported.

While the violent protests were organized by a group called “50501,” they’ve been backed by the militant “Party for Socialism and Liberation” and “The People’s Forum,” two groups “largely subsidized by American former tech mogul Neville Roy Singham.”

And who is Singham? He’s a much-investigated current resident of Shanghai who shares an office with a Chinese Communist Party-linked media firm.

Citing a 2023 New York Times investigation of Singham, Fox News notes “that Singham has funneled over a quarter-billion dollars to dark money organizations in the U.S. with little to no footprints, and some of these organizations are vaguely named with office addresses under suspicious locations like general UPS mailboxes.”

As the Times investigation said, “What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.”

Those Minnesota riots, once described by some as “spontaneous,” look more and more like a backdoor attempt by China, allied with extreme groups in the U.S., to foment violence and outright rebellion.

Last week, FBI head Kash Patel hinted at this, saying “We’ve got … investigations ongoing into the funding of this,” adding that the violent demonstrations, which now include roadblocks and “borders” in parts of Minneapolis, are not taking place “organically.”

None of this is an accident, of course. The demonstrations took off just as massive fraud within the Somali refugee began to be seriously investigated. That includes those in and out of Minnesota’s state and local government who either ignored it or abetted it.

Right now, the groups pushing and financing the demonstrations whipped up public anger over the January shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents. Both incidents are being investigated.

But the more we know, the clearer this becomes. This is the far-left playbook: Inciting people to obstruct federal agents performing legitimate enforcement duties, because local politicians — that’s you, Gov. Tim Walz, and you, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — have refused to aid ICE in doing its duty.

By inflaming opposition, and opening their state to a foreign-funded insurrection using American leftist groups as their foot-soldiers, they’ve abetted what appears to be a massive conspiracy to undermine a U.S. president’s clear right to enforce U.S. law.

And China’s involvement is a major issue. It’s been failing in the Western Hemisphere of late, with the election of five conservative new leaders and the loss of the Panama Canal. The arrest of Nicolas Maduro also stung. Imagine how upset China (not to mention, Russia) will be when Cuba’s murderous regime collapses, too.

This is a dangerous time in America. Blue states, and the increasingly lawless cities that define them, have turned into a sort of leftist neo-Confederacy, believing they can nullify American law at will. Minnesota’s Walz even had the temerity to mention Fort Sumter in a recent speech.

But the usual billionaire leftists who fund radical dissent — including George Soros and son — have company: China. And anyone who thinks Walz, an ardent Sinophile who claims to have visited the Middle Kingdom “dozens” of times, wouldn’t welcome Chinese money to counter President Donald Trump and ICE isn’t thinking straight.

China might be losing in Latin America, but it’s apparently winning here by financial subterfuge. The investigation is ongoing.

Earlier this week, Trump spoke with China’s Xi Jinping, who’s busy himself these days arresting potential rivals in the military. We hope that, in addition to talking about other things, Trump had a chance to tell Xi: Stop supporting U.S. leftist riots, or you’ll pay in ways you can’t imagine.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 02/08/2026 5:59:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I sure hope the FBI rips the organizations out by the roots.


2 posted on 02/08/2026 5:59:12 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Trump had a chance to tell Xi: Stop supporting U.S. leftist riots, or you’ll pay in ways you can’t imagine.
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That’s good the president is letting Xi we know, but Xi is not going to stop. We are going to have to stop it.


3 posted on 02/08/2026 6:05:51 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MtnClimber

This is a legitimate job for the IRS.

They have the capability to track down the last cent made by a small business. This should be pretty easy for them to crack.
It is all about will. Obama’s IRS went after a lot of Americans that protested against him.


4 posted on 02/08/2026 6:06:59 AM PST by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: MtnClimber

Who is talking about the fraud there? Maybe the protests are a distraction.


5 posted on 02/08/2026 6:14:53 AM PST by FreedBird (c)
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To: Texas resident

We have not had any effective fight against left wing subversion since the 1950s, and even then the FBI made more noise, like J. Edgar Hoover writing anti-Communist books, than real action. So far, the Trump Administration has had more rhetoric than action, just as has been the case for decades. Even with respect to his enemies, there were only two indictments, both dismissed.


6 posted on 02/08/2026 6:17:04 AM PST by Wallace T. (,)
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To: MtnClimber

For a LONG time many of us have known and are trying to tell others that China is behind a HUGE number of problems here in the U.S. and something drastic has to happen to stop it.


7 posted on 02/08/2026 6:20:27 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

China has bought off many Congress members already AND Federal agency supervisors.


8 posted on 02/08/2026 6:22:06 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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While the violent protests were organized by a group called “50501",

Let's see. '5050' is short for 'needs mental health evaluation', so the '50501s' are 1s that need mental health evaluations.

9 posted on 02/08/2026 6:42:48 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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Roy Singham for one.


10 posted on 02/08/2026 7:04:37 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MtnClimber

And who is making money off of it?


11 posted on 02/08/2026 7:07:04 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: MtnClimber

I believe the Government knows. If it is up to the DOJ to take action, well we know it will die just like every other issue like Fauci, Adam Schiff, people who persecuted the J6ers, etc. No one will be held accountable and be in jailed.


12 posted on 02/08/2026 7:12:29 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: MtnClimber

Enemies, foreign and domestic.


13 posted on 02/08/2026 7:17:48 AM PST by fruser1
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> This is a legitimate job for the IRS.<

It’s time to start revoking tax exempt status of the groups involved. Let them “ pay their fair share”.

EC


14 posted on 02/08/2026 7:30:29 AM PST by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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To: MtnClimber

The Nazi Georgy Soros.


15 posted on 02/08/2026 7:34:42 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I'm boycotting the U.S. Illegal Alien Olympics team. I don't want them morons representing me.)
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To: MtnClimber

We should pull a thousand of the ICE agents out. They should be replaced with 1,000 of those IRS agents Biden hired. You want to see squealing…start auditing everyone in government in MN.

Tax evasion is how we got Capone. It’s good enough for Omar and her ilk.


16 posted on 02/08/2026 7:36:55 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: MtnClimber

I think Minnesota has been far left for quite some time. The exception has been the Iron Range. When Trump ran the first time a group of businessmen and citizens declared they were pro-Trump. Very conservative area.


17 posted on 02/08/2026 7:37:51 AM PST by johnnygeneric
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To: ViLaLuz

Xi has his own problems in China.

His military leaders are “dying” at an alarming rate. It seems they all want to retire for some reason.

China is not going to be a problem for a while.


18 posted on 02/08/2026 7:38:04 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: johnnygeneric

I think OR, CA, WA and MN are trying to out do each other.


19 posted on 02/08/2026 7:43:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: MtnClimber

Like the DemoKrat party, China is on the verge of collapse! A cornered rat is dangerous!


20 posted on 02/08/2026 7:48:01 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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