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Trump Declares War on the Foundations Cartel: Bessent's Plan to End the Dark Money Empire
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Posted on 08/31/2026 6:55:05 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

In this overview, Mike examines Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s effort to follow the money behind tax-exempt organizations, political campaigns, extremist activity, and what he describes as the financial architecture of the deep state.

From Arabella Advisors and the Sixteen Thirty Fund to the Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundations, CAIR, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mike explains how donations can move through interconnected charities and political organizations without revealing the original donors. These networks, he argues, allow billionaire-backed operations to influence elections, protests, political movements, and American culture while retaining their tax-exempt status.

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Back in 2020, during the misnamed 'Summer of Love', anyone with an IQ of functional or above could see that there were finances behind the 'protests', and even further back, all those demonstrations with preprinted signs that couldn't have been 'just whipped up'.

I kept asking: why aren't they following the money? Then agaun, knowing what we know now about Bill Barr, Chris Wray, etc., its pretty obvious they weren't interested in looking.

Here we are just before midterms, and where are the big prottests and marches?

Or, this: one might think that shutting down much of USAID and the sudden 'rightward' shift in South America is pure coincidence. Or suddenly the Democrats are having money problems. I'm not so sure.

Anyway, I think the video speaks to what probably should have been done in Trump's first term. It sounds like Bessant is now doing just that.

One thing noted in the video: Arabella advisors has changed their name. Its a bit like ACORN disappearing but then ActBlue popping up.

1 posted on 08/31/2026 6:55:05 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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Trump Declares War on the Foundations Cartel: Bessent's Plan to End the Dark Money Empire.

Please wake me up when the Kabuki Theater ends and elite globalists and corrupt government reps and bureaucrats go to prison.

2 posted on 08/31/2026 6:58:29 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Tench_Coxe

Any/all muslim groups get their money from Saudi Arabia


3 posted on 08/31/2026 6:59:08 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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“Here we are just before midterms, and where are the big prottests and marches?”

The ICE protests have disappeared. Quiet as a mouse from Antifa lately.


4 posted on 08/31/2026 7:00:32 AM PDT by devane617 (Facts Do Not Matter To Those On The Left—It's Their God.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Good that this is being done...but it should have been done in the 1st week of the 1st Trump term. EVERYONE knows that the system is corrupt, and that money is necessary for everything to work, even corrupt systems. Better late than never, I suppose.

Now let’s see if anyone will actually F$%king go to jail! Stopping corruption is great, but if no one pays a price, someone (perhaps even the same people) will just go and do it again, but this time make it harder to trace the funds.


5 posted on 08/31/2026 7:03:43 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: JesusIsLord

Go where? 🤔😠


6 posted on 08/31/2026 7:13:37 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Here we are just before midterms, and where are the big protests and marches?”

I could be wrong but I suspect a lot of that dark money (including DDA’s) is being directed into the Democrat GOTV campaign.


7 posted on 08/31/2026 7:15:18 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: butlerweave

Not true. Many like Hezbollah and Hamas get their funding from Iran and Qatar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and others (including the Clintons) from Lebanese ethnic enclaves around the world, and specific billionaires or families like Alamoudi.
Bin Laden and al Qaeda even received funding from Canadian aid programs and UN administered programs via fraud.


8 posted on 08/31/2026 7:16:39 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Here we are just before midterms, and where are the big prottests and marches?
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imho this is a tell.

but where was the republican convention to be held in texas in august?


9 posted on 08/31/2026 7:20:43 AM PDT by ckilmer (`61)
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To: butlerweave

Remember when MBS sequestered them all and clawed back all their excess money. I think a lot of the Saudi mischief money went away after that.


10 posted on 08/31/2026 7:22:31 AM PDT by 31R1O (The people who can control themselves ought to be able to defend themselves from those who can't.)
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A-noth-ER frickin’ Biden legacy.

<><>Arabella Advisors
<><>the Sixteen Thirty Fund
<><> the Tides Foundation,
<><>Open Society Foundations,
<><>CAIR,
<><>the Southern Poverty Law Center,
<><>etc etc etc

Some of the lefty networks that allow the billionaire-backed left to fix US elections, and finance protests, political movements, and stain American culture......... by moving $$$ donations through phony interconnected charities and leftist political organizations without revealing the original donors.......using their tax-exempt status.


11 posted on 08/31/2026 7:44:02 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of Gd; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

12 posted on 08/31/2026 7:49:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

As the Canadians are discovering to their displeasure, Trump has a secret weapon, called Scott Bessant.


13 posted on 08/31/2026 7:50:47 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

Patriots, Call Congress
US Capitol switchboard
(202) 224-3121.

Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TTY/TTD Comments: 202-456-6213

Send a letter to the White House
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Washington, DC 20500

Message: Some of the lefty networks that allow the billionaire-backed left to fix US elections, and finance protests, political movements, and stain American culture......... by moving $$$ donations through phony interconnected charities and leftist political organizations without revealing the original donors.......using their tax-exempt status.

<><>Arabella Advisors
<><>the Sixteen Thirty Fund
<><> the Tides Foundation,
<><>Open Society Foundations,
<><>CAIR,
<><>the Southern Poverty Law Center,
<><>etc etc etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum


14 posted on 08/31/2026 7:57:25 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of Gd; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: butlerweave

And Qatar.


15 posted on 08/31/2026 8:04:11 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Liz


16 posted on 08/31/2026 8:11:54 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Liz

Thanks


17 posted on 08/31/2026 8:25:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Crime is down in the United States because Trump is sending ALL illegals home. Thanks ICE!)
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To: Liz

Excellent! Lord protect them. Confound the enemy on their belf, I pray, in Jesus Name, amen.


18 posted on 08/31/2026 8:25:55 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Liz
Don't forget the Mother of all
19 posted on 08/31/2026 8:30:58 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you )
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To: JesusIsLord
Why do you post on the top of the thread if you don't care about the issue? It doesn't have to be 'jail or nothing' - that position is so juvenile...

What do you want? For us to sit on our hands and let commies/democrats and scammers have free reign? To continue the dark money rip-offs?

Gimme a break. Lots of these democrat/commie scammers are stopped by laws - by defunding. By being exposed. It's not 'jail or nothing'... the goal is to stop the problem. Right? If a few people are arrested during that process, fine. But the goal is to stop democrat horrors.

20 posted on 08/31/2026 8:43:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Crime is down in the United States because Trump is sending ALL illegals home. Thanks ICE!)
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