Posted on 07/16/2025 8:50:34 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Adam Swart, the CEO of Crowds on Demand, a company known for organising paid demonstrators, claims he was offered $20 million to recruit demonstrators for Thursday’s anti-Trump protests.
Notably, tens of thousands of individuals nationwide are gearing up for the ‘Good Trouble Lives On’ protests honouring civil rights icon and longtime Congressman John Lewis.
Axios says the Democratic Georgia lawmaker was one of Donald Trump's most vocal critics in his first term in the Oval Office and was one of the few members of Congress who decided not to attend his inauguration, the first one Lewis ever missed in his more than three decades in office.
Why Swart turned down $20M to recruit for anti-Trump protests
While speaking with NewsNation, Swart said, “Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17th movement have approached us. In fact, we rejected an offer that is probably worth around $20 million.”
The CEO of Crowds on Demand says he didn’t hesitate to walk away from the deal. “I’m rejecting it not because I don’t want to take the business, but because frankly, this is going to be ineffective; it’s going to make us all look bad,” he told NewsNation.
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“I’m rejecting it not because I don’t want to take the business, but because frankly, this is going to be ineffective; it’s going to make us all look bad,” Swart said.
When asked who exactly offered his firm the money to recruit people, Swart would not disclose the information because he does not talk about who exactly his clients are and that it would be “bad for business.”
Aside from believing the protests would not make a difference, Swart added that his concerns about violence unfolding at Thursday’s protests also led him to reject the contract.
Sounds like a great opportunity for all of those extra IRS agents..
Have they run E verify on every one of the protestors?
Do they ALL get 1099s?
What is the insurance liability for putting a ton of paid protestors in the street?
Adam Swart sounds like a smart businessman with an innovative idea that he has made into a very large business. I think his books should be checked to see if he always follows through with all required 1099s, Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid payments, etc.. Some states allow such people as these paid protesters to be independent contractors, but some do not. The latter are the states where this guy’s financial records need to be checked.
Secondly, his history of hiring people for demonstrations needs to be checked to see if he always gets the proper permits from local authorities. He hires people to demonstrate. Shouldn’t be held accountable if they block traffic, harass, others, vandalize, etc.. ?
“ I would say it isn’t just some domestic companies we should be concerned about but also foreign influencers and organizers”
I fully agree and think that deep investigations need to be done into these organizations to see if they get the proper permits from each locality as well as correct withholding for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, where hiring them as independent contractors is not permitted.
Maybe Trump can ask the DoJ to investigate and look at his records to find out which events he was paid money to sent people to.
I just remembered..
Didn’t Ca just go through a whole thing killing all sorts of “gig economy” jobs (Uber/ door dash).
Assuming a lot of these protestors are showing up and being paid mutliple times by the same Co. Would that not violate Ca laws?
I’m sure Soros can do better than a paltry $20 million...
“ Didn’t Ca just go through a whole thing killing all sorts of “gig economy” jobs (Uber/ door dash).”
That is what I remember also. Wouldn’t it be sweet if it was the financial shenanigans of paying these protesters in California that brought down this whole rent a mob empire.
In places where such people can still be considered contractors, they are personally required to pay both parts of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Let’s see how many of them did that.
Shouldn’t the company hiring them be required to keep records of who they hired as well? I don’t think you can just pay people cash on the day of a riot. Not legally anyway.
I wish that the authorities would arrest everyone violating the law instead of just a few. I hate watching 100 or 200 people rioting and then reading that there were 3 or 4 arrests. At a minimum the LEO’s could start water hosing them with dyed water.
Somehow the FBI could find thousands of J Sixers, including those who walked through already open doors, peacefully taking selfies as they stayed between the velvet ropes, all over the country but they can’t seem to arrest people who are vandalizing and /or attacking LEOs.
John Lewis besmirched himself with all that performative acting.
The trick is to find enough clymers to take the bribe. Seems easy.
Is this how Kamala spent all that campaign money?
The CEO of “crowds on demand” was interviewed on the Laura Ingraham show tonight on Fox News. He said that 100% of the people protesting are paid in some way. Some are by directly an organization. Some are by a union for whom they will get good assignments if they show up to protest and poor assignments if they don’t. There were other ways of paying people as well, but did not delineate them.
I was hoping Laura would ask him if any right wing demonstrations had people who were paid to be there. I have participated in many demonstrations over the years mostly the March for life in DC and patriotic demonstrations there. I was never paid by anybody nor did I know anyone there who was paid.
I saw an interview with this guy about a month ago. He started this business when he was in college. He didn’t know that paying a couple friends then would lead to what’s going on now.
Good points. They need going over with a microscope.
Crowds on Demand apparently hires anyone willing to act. One can boost their leftwing protest by hiring actors to play the roles of both sides, guaranteeing better news coverage.
That is likely what was done in Charlottesville. Amid people who come out to protest legitimately on their own initiative, a rent a mob company can assign actors and costume them to infiltrate any crowd, even to delegitimize a real demonstration, rally or protest “by association.” To delegitimize a conservative rally just hire actors to carry confederate battle flags and mingle. To legitimize a fringe protest or to shakedown companies or intimidate politicians just hire actors to bulk up the crowd. To get news coverage hire actors to play protester AND counterprotestor engaging in “ fights.”
A company like this can also be legal cover for screening applicants and hiring people to willing to do more than just act, to carry out illegal assignments.
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