SCOOP: Billionaire Musk foe Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, bankrolls second Trump resistance under "nonpartisan" banner🧵 1/6
Some background: The New York Times and other outlets recently profiled the existence of a new Democratic governors-led Trump “resistance” group, noting its funding was unclear as it preps to coordinate state-level pushback to the incoming administration
It's called “Governors Safeguarding Democracy" 2/6
The parent for GSD, @dcexaminer found, is quietly backed by left-wing billionaire Pierre Omidyar — a key financier of entities leading corporate boycott campaigns against @X owner @elonmusk
The funding to the umbrella charity for “Governors Safeguarding Democracy" would be untraceable for several years because of IRS reporting lag. However, it's buried in Omidyar’s Democracy Fund grants database 3/6
Omidyar, the disclosures show, recently gifted substantial funding to a legal group associated with Marc Elias — the RussiaGate lawyer involved in the PA Senate race recount to thwart Republican @DaveMcCormickPA's victory in a last-ditch effort 4/6
“Governors Safeguarding Democracy” is being led by J.B. Pritzker of Illinois and Jared Polis of Colorado, a pair of blue state governors. It claims to be nonpartisan.
The new Trump resistance group says it will "develop playbooks to enable governors and their teams to anticipate and swiftly respond to emerging threats” from Republicans in the name of—GSD says—Capital D-Democracy 5/6
Read the full story in @dcexaminer 6/6
washingtonexaminer.com/news/investiga…
@dcexaminer H/t @ParkerThayer and @capitalresearch
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