Matt Palumbo

Well, good morning, guys.

Thanks for having me on.

Alex and the OSF clearly are afraid.

They're in defense mode.

In their press releases, they're saying they didn't knowingly fund any violent groups.

And I think the word knowingly is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentence.

But it's also irrelevant.

Their argument that, oh, we're not directly paying people to do violence doesn't mean anything if groups have a record of doing violence.

The

analogy I've given is they will hand gasoline and matches to an arsonist and then say, well, we couldn't have possibly known it was going to go on there.

And Alex cited a New York Times article that made that exact argument.

And they had claimed that a recent report from the Capital Research Center, which does profiles on left-wing groups, had made that exact claim.

There's no evidence of any direct funding.

And I read the report, and I'll read directly from it.

The Open Society Foundation, since 2016, gave $80 million to pro-terror groups.

And this is split between groups that are themselves going out and committing acts of violence or are making light of violence, doing propaganda for groups like Hamas to downplay their atrocities, or providing legal aid, free legal aid to these protesters.

And

We talked in the last show how Alex had used environmentalist groups sort of as a front for other left-wing causes and that he had authorized over $438 million in new spending to environmental groups ever since he took over.

But that's only a small percentage of what they actually do.

They're sort of a catch-all for left-wing activism.