Pablo Torre

I feel demoralized that we have to be here.

And on top of that, there was the grand opening in 2023 now of the Riley Gaines Center,

a center which was founded at something called the Leadership Institute, which turns out to be a conservative nonprofit that has been recruiting and training right-wing activists for like 50 years.

The mission of the Riley Gaines Center was very specific.

It was to recruit other student athletes who had been, quote, "'harmed by zealots of transgender ideology.'"

Part of her job working for the Leadership Institute here is to go give out actual medals, Pablo.

Literal medals with the Leadership Institute logo on them to other girls and women who reject trans women in sports.

Mini-me's of Riley Gaines, essentially.

And according to their tax forms, Riley Gaines, director of the Riley Gaines Center...

pocketed $126,523 within just five months of her center's founding, raising this larger question of who exactly was funding this center named after a 23-year-old.

So they're a nonprofit.

They don't have to disclose their donors publicly.

But by going and pulling tax forms for other powerful conservative foundations, I was able to find one of these funders.

And this one is the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation.

Betsy DeVos, of course, Donald Trump's first term education secretary.

who was also part of a very well-connected family.

Yeah, some of the most powerful funders, some of the biggest funders in Republican politics.

We should say the sister of former Blackwater founder Eric Prince.

You know, her name is DeVos because she married into the family that co-founded the health and beauty empire Amway.

Which is also why I can very safely declare that the family that owns the Orlando f***ing magic are also...