“Christopher Hohn, and other foreign billionaires like Hansjörg Wyss, have been able to exploit loopholes that allow foreign money to fund policy fights that shape American politics to fit their radical agendas,. . .”
Left-wing politics have utterly destroyed the once-respected nation of Great Britain. And now, its elites are seeking to subsidize these same destructive ideologies throughout the United States.
"On Wednesday, the good government group Americans for Public Trust (APT) released a bombshell report unearthing the extensive financial activity of British billionaire Christopher Hohn in U.S. political causes. Through the use of his nonprofit, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Hohn has “funneled over $553 million into U.S. organizations from 2014 through 2023 to bankroll advocacy campaigns and push a radical green energy agenda,” according to the analysis.
“The American people are overwhelmingly opposed to and alarmed by foreign influence shaping our politics,” APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland said in a statement. “If these radical foreign billionaires are allowed to funnel money into our political system virtually unchecked, there’s nothing stopping foreign adversaries from doing the same.”
The APT report focuses on numerous subject areas touched by Hohn’s foreign dark-money influence, including radical environmentalism.
Per the analysis, the British billionaire is “one of the largest disclosed individual donors to date to the global organization Extinction Rebellion, or XR,” which APT describes as an “international collective founded in 2018 … [that is] behind a series of mob-style protests across the globe.” These demonstrations, according to the report, aim to “’halt mass extinction’ and ‘minimize the risk of social collapse’ [XR] perceives as tied to climate change.”
“XR’s American affiliate has called for ‘rebellion against the U.S. government for its criminal inaction on the ecological crisis,’ and in 2019, claimed that its volunteers had ‘seized’ over twenty intersections in Washington, D.C. during a protest,” the report reads, noting additional arrests in D.C. and New York City during prior XR protests. “Despite these hyperbolic claims — and the optics of a foreign citizen supporting a group calling for an insurrection against the U.S. government — Hohn gave XR at least $65,000 from his personal fortune, and another, separate contribution via CIFF, totaling nearly $200,000.” . . . More.
Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review.
