Left-wing politics have utterly destroyed the once-respected nation of Great Britain. And now, its elites are seeking to subsidize these same destructive ideologies throughout the United States.
On Wednesday, the good government group Americans for Public Trust (APT) released a bombshell report unearthing the extensive financial activity of British billionaire Christopher Hohn in U.S. political causes. Through the use of his nonprofit, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Hohn has “funneled over $553 million into U.S. organizations from 2014 through 2023 to bankroll advocacy campaigns and push a radical green energy agenda,” according to the analysis.
“The American people are overwhelmingly opposed to and alarmed by foreign influence shaping our politics,” APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland said in a statement. “If these radical foreign billionaires are allowed to funnel money into our political system virtually unchecked, there’s nothing stopping foreign adversaries from doing the same.”
The APT report focuses on numerous subject areas touched by Hohn’s foreign dark-money influence, including radical environmentalism.
Per the analysis, the British billionaire is “one of the largest disclosed individual donors to date to the global organization Extinction Rebellion, or XR,” which APT describes as an “international collective founded in 2018 … [that is] behind a series of mob-style protests across the globe.” These demonstrations, according to the report, aim to “’halt mass extinction’ and ‘minimize the risk of social collapse’ [XR] perceives as tied to climate change.”
“XR’s American affiliate has called for ‘rebellion against the U.S. government for its criminal inaction on the ecological crisis,’ and in 2019, claimed that its volunteers had ‘seized’ over twenty intersections in Washington, D.C. during a protest,” the report reads, noting additional arrests in D.C. and New York City during prior XR protests. “Despite these hyperbolic claims — and the optics of a foreign citizen supporting a group calling for an insurrection against the U.S. government — Hohn gave XR at least $65,000 from his personal fortune, and another, separate contribution via CIFF, totaling nearly $200,000.”
The report also details how, in 2018, Hohn (via CIFF) purportedly dumped $7 million into the D.C.-based Center for Climate Integrity to back so-called “climate litigation efforts” across multiple countries. This includes efforts in America, where the Center for Climate Integrity and its parent organization (Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development) “courted and encouraged elected officials in several U.S. cities to bring lawsuits against energy companies over claims that they are responsible for climate change.”
Hohn’s financial tentacles also extend into the sprawling dark money network known as Arabella Advisors. According to APT, “CIFF has cumulatively given two Arabella-managed nonprofits, New Venture Fund (NVF) and Windward Fund, over $11 million” since 2016, making Hohn the second foreign billionaire (the other being Swiss leftist Hansjörg Wyss) to indirectly dump millions into the network to bankroll American left-wing political causes.
Another “alarming” feature of Hohn’s dark money shenanigans flagged by APT is CIFF’s “ties and relationships” with communist China.
According to the report, “In 2019, CIFF opened an office in Beijing, claiming that its work is linked to bringing ‘climate solutions’ to Chinese leadership at all levels of government.” The British group has also supported “the ‘green development’ of China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative,’ the [Chinese Communist Party’s] infamous attempt to project soft power globally via international development.”
The analysis goes on to note how CIFF and its work have been overseen by “Chinese governmental ministries” since being designated an NGO in China in 2017,” and has “given millions to various organizations directly under the auspices of the Chinese government, including the National Renewable Energy Center, the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Centre (FECO), and Tsinghua University, which conduct energy and military research.” CIFF’s close ties with Beijing, APT warns, should cause alarm for the United States.
“With such a close working relationship with the Chinese government, it raises concerns that the influence Hohn and CIFF are trying to exert on a host of American energy issues may inadvertently help CCP officials in Beijing clandestinely piggyback their own policy aims and goals into the United States,” the report reads.
To rectify these concerns, Sutherland and APT recommend that U.S. lawmakers develop more concrete laws focused on keeping foreign money out of domestic politics. Some of these solutions, according to the report, may include “a complete ban on foreign funding of 501(c)(4)s, overhauling FARA, or requiring politically active groups to disclose sources of foreign funding.”
“Christopher Hohn, and other foreign billionaires like Hansjörg Wyss, have been able to exploit loopholes that allow foreign money to fund policy fights that shape American politics to fit their radical agendas,” Sutherland said. “While some states have already taken action to stop foreign money in ballot issue campaign, more action is needed to comprehensively ban all foreign influence.”