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In 2018, “dark money” anonymous donations quietly but massively flooded Democratic and left-leaning causes with $141 million coming from a little-known nonprofit called The Sixteen Thirty Fund.
Will dark money surface again in an attempt to oust Trump and the Republicans in 2020?
Dark money works on anonymous donations.
It works through a little loophole in federal law which does not require nonprofits related to “social welfare” to reveal their donors.
A little-known nonprofit that is headquartered in Washington spent a whopping $141 million it had raised in 2018 through these anonymous sources to fund over 100 left-leaning causes.
The numbers have just come to light through a new tax filing from a group known as The Sixteen Thirty Fund.
The group was founded by former Clinton administration appointee Eric Kessler. Another group, Arabella Advisors, provides “business and administrative services” to the nonprofit.
Most interesting of all is that an anonymous donation came from a single gift of $51.7 million.
We may never know who the mysterious donor was.
Another donor donated $26.7 million, while a third donated $10 million.
It is known that Michael Bloomberg gave $250,000 to a super PAC linked to Sixteen Thirty Fund, Change Now, in 2018.
One big concern is that when such large contributions are made, especially anonymously, it raises the specter that these multimillion-dollar donations are a conglomeration of funds funneled from multiple other groups into a single donation.
However, Democrats aren’t the only ones to use dark money. On the conservative side, the Koch brothers were also quite the dark money machine.
But what makes The Sixteen Thirty Fund different is that it is one of the few that have gone into the $100 million-plus range.
Further, according to experts, this is the largest amount of money ever raised by a left-leaning political nonprofit group.
In the aforementioned single donation of $51.7 million was the largest the group had ever raised before President Donald Trump was elected.
Since the day after the inauguration, Democrats have been steadfastly working to remove President Donald Trump from office.
While it seems fairly likely to certain that Democrats in the House will impeach Trump, it also seems fairly likely to certain that Republicans in the Senate will exonerate the president.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund invested over $27 million to America Votes in 2018, and may have played a crucial factor in flipping the House to Democrats.
If Trump cannot be defeated through impeachment it raises the possibility that a number of elitists, globalists and left-leaning individuals might use their wealth to make dark money contributions anonymously in an effort to steer the politics of the country in the direction they desire.
Billionaire George Soros, who is a member of the Democratic donor group known as Democracy Alliance, last year advised its donors to invest several million dollars into Sixteen Thirty Fund.
