Scott Bessent (Treasury Sec.) Signals Crackdown On Dark-Money NGO Protests
‘Just Like We Did With The Mafia’
BY TYLER DURDEN
The left’s ability to rapidly stage highly organized ‘pop-up’ protests in response to just about any political incident is uncanny (remember Robert Creamer? “Wherever Trump and Pence are going to be, we have events, we have a whole team across the country that does that.“). Often, organic protests that average Americans have every right to engage in (even if we disagree) are co-opted and amplified by ‘organizers,’ and blessed by the media, which runs damage control when needed (‘mostly peaceful!’). Other times they orchestrate entirely scripted ‘astroturf’ campaigns to manufacture outrage.
The common denominator always seems to be dark-money NGOs, often funded by foreigners who would relish America’s demise so they can rebuild it in their image. Chaos, collapse, control.
We’re witnessing this in real time, as the left’s protest-industrial-complex predictably fired up the in multiple blue cities hours after an ICE agent shot a “ICE Watch” activist in Minneapolis. And now we’re seeing mobs hunting down federal agents.
As regular readers know, we’ve spent much of the past year tracking dark money NGO networks fueling the Democratic Party’s pressure campaigns – what we characterize as color revolution-style operations targeting President Trump and the America First agenda. Those constant protests, and even riots, link back to left-wing billionaires and NGO networks in the US, Europe, the Americas, and even China, all seemingly working in unison and hellbent on fomenting chaos on city streets to kill Trump’s agenda.
Enter Bessent
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with journalist Christopher Rufo this past week. Among the topics discussed were left-wing nonprofits, with Bessent acknowledging that “we are examining” NGO activities and funding structures…
Here’s the key snippet from the Rufo-Bessent conversation that is likely to keep dark-money-funded nonprofits up at night:
Christopher Rufo:
There are 501(c)(3) nonprofit groups that [are] funded by left-wing dark money, that are organizing—or at least at arm’s length encouraging—criminal activities. Criminal protests. Criminal obstruction of federal officers, including ICE agents. Is the Treasury looking into this? Is it something you have authority to crack down on, and what can we expect?
Scott Bessent:
Yes, yes, and yes. So these groups that are engaging in this—we have the authority, and we are examining them. Because when you see these protesters, someone is financing them. There are safe houses. When you see the 300 people with the same laser that they’re using to blind DHS agents in courthouses in Portland, someone bought those lasers.
And again, what we do is follow the money—just like we followed it with the mafia, just like we follow it. We’ll find out who’s done this.
I announced today that we are going to put in effect a whistleblower program. And my sense is that the rats will turn on each other.
As I believe you reported—or someone talked about in a roundtable—one of the Somali fraudsters tried to bribe a juror with $120,000. What turned out, she’d been given $200,000 to bribe the jurors, and she skimmed. It’s like the scorpion—it’s in their nature.
EXCLUSIVE: Treasury @SecScottBessent tells me that the Trump Administration will launch investigations into left-wing nonprofits that serve as a front for violent protests and criminal obstruction of ICE operations. It’s time to stop left-wing terrorism in America. pic.twitter.com/roorsk4XLA
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) January 9, 2026
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Via Schweizer’s reporting…
Also, Capital Research Center, a think tank tracking foundations, charities, and other nonprofits, recently revealed that George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) empire has funneled over $80 million into groups linked to terrorism or extremist violence.
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