New Trump campaign donation scandal unveiled

 The Washington Post reports that a conservative activist group led by Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, raised nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations over three years. The donations were funneled through a right-wing think tank to hide the group’s activities from the public. This is the first case of anonymous donors supporting Thomas’ activism since she founded a conservative charity more than a decade ago. Thomas’ political advocacy has long been a source of controversy, and she has allied with people and groups with interests before the court. In 2020, Thomas privately urged White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to overturn the presidential election and urged lawmakers from undecided states to overturn Joe Biden’s win at the polls.

The Post’s investigation sheds new light on the role of anonymous donations in supporting Thomas’ activism. According to a Washington Post investigation, a conservative activist group led by Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, raised nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations to fight the left over three years. The donations were funneled through a right-wing think tank in Washington, which acted as a funding conduit, hiding Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty’s activities and expenses from the public. This is the first instance of anonymous donors supporting Thomas’ activism since she founded a conservative charity more than a decade ago. The Post’s investigation also sheds new light on the role of anonymous donors in supporting her political advocacy, which has long been a source of controversy.

The article discusses Ginni Thomas’ involvement in creating Crowdsourcers, a group aimed at countering left-wing influence campaigns. Anonymous donations were made to the Capital Research Center, which channeled $400,000 of the money to Crowdsourcers through Donors Trust, a fund that receives money from wealthy donors and directs it toward conservative causes. Thomas played a key role in bringing together people like Cleta Mitchell, James O’Keefe, and Richard Viguerie for the initiative. Crowdsourcers held its first meeting in January 2019, and attendees exchanged ideas on how to counter the left, breaking into several groups. Members communicated through a private Google group, with warnings not to share identifying information. Thomas and her assistant used email addresses belonging to their for-profit consulting business, Liberty Consulting. Crowdsourcers, a conservative nonprofit that provides a platform for anti-vaccine and anti-mask activists, received funding from the Conservative Partnership Fund, the sister organization of the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI).

The funding was part of a $596,000 grant from the CRC Foundation, which serves as IPC’s financing arm, according to tax records. The CRC Foundation provided “fiduciary oversight, financial management and other administrative services” to Crowdsourcers under a “fiscal sponsorship agreement.” Records show the relationship lasted through the end of 2021. Crowdsourcers founder Ginni Thomas is married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The group opposes COVID-19 restrictions, as well as critical race theory, gender-neutral pronouns and other “woke” ideologies. The article addresses the controversy surrounding the political activism of Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In 2010 she founded the nonprofit Liberty Central, which she described as “nonpartisan” but aimed at harnessing the energy of the tea party movement. There were concerns about her husband’s potential conflicts of interest after anonymous donations were made to the organization. Ginni Thomas later created Liberty Consulting, a for-profit firm with fewer public disclosure requirements. Little is known about the firm’s clients, but the Center for Security Policy and a political action committee led by a member of the conservative group Crowdsourcers were reported to have paid the firm. We will watch how this story unravels in the coming days.