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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.


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To: Wallace T.

Republican voters must become aggressively vocal and notify the entire elected GOP establishment that if they don’t get off their asses and go on offense the campaign donation flow is going to be completely SHUT OFF! Nothing else legally permissible will get their attention so quickly!


21 posted on 02/08/2026 7:48:42 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Marxist Democrats are a dangerous national pathology. Deus Vult!)
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To: MtnClimber

The skinnie minnies are probably using some of the 20 billion dollars worth of learing money that they stole from their beloved “neighbors”, stupid whitey.


22 posted on 02/08/2026 7:56:24 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

Okay I admit it. It’s me. I’m funding the whole thing.


23 posted on 02/08/2026 8:12:12 AM PST by airplaneguy
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To: airplaneguy

Hey buddy; can you spare a dime?


24 posted on 02/08/2026 8:33:44 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (be American or Be Gone)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Oh sure, no problem. Ill venmo you. Haha.


25 posted on 02/08/2026 8:40:31 AM PST by airplaneguy
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To: MtnClimber; Texas resident
Seriously though, the distraction from what's probably America's worst fraud ever has been successful thanks to the major media ignoring it with the
UpSquirrel

tactic. I believe a combined IRS/Law Enforcement crackdown is necessary to bring this back into the public's awareness where it should be.

26 posted on 02/08/2026 8:44:57 AM PST by MikelTackNailer (be American or Be Gone)
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To: MtnClimber

Sadly, change starts with the FBI at home.


27 posted on 02/08/2026 10:03:27 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber
We are.

Not the answer people want but our tax money is being embezzled to fund the riots.

And this has been going on for a very long time.

28 posted on 02/08/2026 10:06:06 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ll o.reilly gave trump sing’s. Info at trumps request before the xi phone call.


29 posted on 02/08/2026 10:30:07 AM PST by ckilmer (`61)
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To: MtnClimber

YOU did. Your tax dollars went to Mn as part of a massive DNC $$ laundering scheme. Massive. Rivals what Ukraine did.

This is why things are so expensive and SSecurity is in danger — fraud.


30 posted on 02/08/2026 10:43:34 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
There has been way too much of a normalcy bias among the Republican elite dating back decades, maybe to the days of Wendell Willkie and Thomas Dewey, the RINOs of the 1940s. This was exacerbated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact in 1989. The Cold War was won; the Reagan Revolution moved the country away from the New Deal and Great Society eras. However, the enemies of God and America merely regrouped. President Trump, Susie Wiles, and Pam Bondi appear to have a built in normalcy bias, Trump's rhetoric notwithstanding.
31 posted on 02/08/2026 11:43:37 AM PST by Wallace T. (,)
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To: Wallace T.

There has been way too much of a normalcy bias...
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I’m curious how you would explain the meaning of that.


32 posted on 02/08/2026 2:23:37 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Marxist Democrats are a dangerous national pathology. Deus Vult!)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Normalcy bias is the tendency to underestimate a threat or danger under the assumption that things will remain as in the past.


33 posted on 02/08/2026 5:26:15 PM PST by Wallace T. (,)
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To: Wallace T.

Normalcy bias is the tendency to underestimate a threat or danger under the assumption that things will remain as in the past.
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Yes, that’s exactly how I would define it, but I was curious to see if your understanding of it was somewhat different. Thanks for the post.


34 posted on 02/08/2026 5:30:01 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Marxist Democrats are a dangerous national pathology. Deus Vult!)
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To: Wallace T.

We have not had any effective fight against left wing subversion since the 1950s,...
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IMHO, failure to charge politicians and political activists for their unlawful activities is more likely to destroy our country than any other existential threat we face. What is urgently needed is a reincarnation of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, later renamed the House Committee on Internal Security, that was abolished in 1975.


35 posted on 02/08/2026 6:03:39 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Marxist Democrats are a dangerous national pathology. Deus Vult!)
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