The CEO of a “rent a mob” company that provides large crowds for Democrat protests and PR stunts said he was offered about $20,000,000 to recruit demonstrators for the anti-Trump protests that are scheduled to take place nationwide on Thursday.
“Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17 movement have approached us, and in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million,” Crowds on Demand CEO Adam Swart told News Nation.
Swart said that under the massive contract, his company would have been responsible for organizing “huge demonstrations around the country.”
The Crowds on Demand website states: “we provide our clients with impactful advocacy campaigns and events. We are best known for organizing passionate demonstrations, rallies, flash-mobs, corporate PR events, and light-hearted events such as paparazzi, brand ambassadors, and PR stunts.”
The CEO said he turned down the offer partly because he was concerned about the potential for violence, but mainly because he thought the protests would be “ineffective and make us all look bad.”
“Personally, I just don’t think it’s effective,” Swart told News Nation’s Brian Entin.
Demonstrators are expected to gather at more than 1,600 locations nationwide on July 17 for what Democrats have dubbed “Good Trouble Lives On” protests. The term “good trouble” was coined by late-Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) to describe street agitation as “good trouble, necessary trouble” during the civil rights era. Since then, Democrats have used the term to advance all manner of left-wing causes, including opposition to President Trump’s policies.
The “Good Trouble” protests are being sponsored by many of the same left-wing groups that were involved in the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations on June 14. Those protests “drew millions of participants across 2,100 locations,” according USA Today, although it’s impossible to know how many of the “demonstrators” were recruited by rent-a-mob companies like Crowds on Demand.
Swart would not say who exactly offered him the money, telling Entin that divulging that information would be “bad for business.” The CEO said he has been in business for 15 years and “has to turn down a lot of contracts.”