Quick Hit: USAID money funneled to BLM through Soros organization

Soros' Tides Center received over $24 million from USAID

According to a report by Andy Ngo at the Post Millennial, Black Lives Matter received millions from USAID.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) issued a $24.7 million grant to the George Soros-funded Tides Center, which then funneled millions of taxpayer funds to the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. Tides granted more than $12.6 million from its Black Lives Matter Support Fund to help support BLM Grassroots during the height of the racial justice riots following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. BLM Grassroots is an organization that works with local Black Lives Matter chapters and similar racial justice groups.

Ngo continues:

The discovery was revealed after the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation sued the Tides Center in California court last year, accusing the nonprofit of withholding $33 million in donations to the foundation. Tides was forced to issue a clarification that the funds were intended for BLM Grassroots, which is a distinct organization separate from BLMGNF, and other racial justice groups. Tides, which manages roughly $1.4 billion in assets, said the amount awarded was $12.6 million, according to a statement issued to Bloomberg.

So, the implication here is USAID was facilitated the destructive riots that spread across the country that year.

North Carolina was not immune from rioting, which ended up costing the state's taxpayers millions due to arson, looting, vandalism, destruction of property, and assaults on police officers.

Led by former House Speaker Tim Moore, the legislature tightened up laws on rioting, which our former governor allowed to become law without his signature.

What I wrote on the fourth anniversary of the riots that swept Raleigh and other cities in the state is still true today, "To date, no North Carolina lawmakers have held a hearing on the riots, requested details of those who were arrested, investigated the costs involved or questioned the initial response by Cooper."