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<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/trump-inauguration-money-links-secretive-dark-money/">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/trump-inauguration-money-links-secretive-dark-money/</a>Notorious “dark money” conduit <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/tag/wellspring-committee/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wellspring Committee</a> gave $14.8 million to the primary spender on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and paid $919,900 to the mysterious LLC that made a $1 million donation to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, according to a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5299825-Wellspring-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">new tax return</a> obtained Nov. 27 by the Center for Responsive Politics.Wellspring has acted as a conduit for large contributions from secretive donors since it was set up, effectively laundering multi-million dollar donations with no substantive disclosure or accountability.Despite operating behind the scenes with a name unknown to most of the American public, Wellspring is at the crux of Ann and Neil Corkery’s network of politically active dark money groups, funneling millions from anonymous financiers to political causes they don’t want their names attached to — and doing ostensibly little else.Wellspring has continued to be the chief financier of the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000026924" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Judicial Crisis Network</a> (JCN), with a $14,814,998 contribution last year.JCN is another nondisclosing politically active nonprofit linked to the Corkerys’ network of conservative dark money groups. It has become the predominant dark money spender in Supreme Court <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/09/kavanaugh-confirmation-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">confirmation fights</a> as a vehicle for deep-pocketed donors to funnel millions of dollars behind or against judicial nominees.Since 2010, Wellspring has funneled more than $54.2 million to JCN, according to tax returns obtained by CRP.The bulk of Wellspring’s funds that came from three multi-million dollar secret donors in 2017, a shift from prior years in which the biggest amount the group received from a single mystery donor increased with each passing year. The largest donor accounted for $8.9 million, another gave $5.5 million and a third secret donor provided $2 million — but all of their identities remain hidden from the public.The biggest anonymous contribution to Wellspring in 2016 was nearly $28.5 million, a jump from $8.5 million in 2015 and $6.96 million in 2014. That one secret donor accounted for around 90 percent of Wellspring’s funding in 2016, a year it gave $23 million to JCN.As a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, JCN is not required to report its donors to the IRS — and chooses not to disclose its funders’ identities to the public — so its only discoverable donors are other entities like Wellspring that act as conduits for the anonymous money directed at JCN.JCN was back in the limelight this year as the biggest spender in support of Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Following its tried and true playbook, JCN launched its first ad about Kavanaugh before Trump even finished announcing his nomination and soon after announced plans to spend $10 million on his confirmation. JCN pledged $10 million <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/11/web-of-secret-money-hides-one-mega-donor-funding-conservative-court/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">to support</a> the successful confirmation of Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, the prior year and reported spending $7 million to block the confirmation of Merrick Garland before President Barack Obama left office.JCN has also spent substantial sums on lobbyists, including <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=77747" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jon Kyl,</a> who lobbied to help JCN marshall in Gorsuch’s nomination before becoming the official White House “sherpa” guiding Kavanaugh through that same process. He was later appointed to fill the late Sen. John McCain’s seat — ultimately enabling him to vote for the confirmation he was once tasked with helping Kavanaugh secure.JCN <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/10/only-a-fraction-of-dark-money-spending-on-kavanaugh-disclosed/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">spent</a> $483,246 in total on Facebook ads and just $1,900 on Google platforms around the fight to confirm Kavanaugh with an estimated reach of potentially millions of Facebook users.TV advertising made up the bulk of JCN’s reported spending on Kavanaugh with around $3.9 million going TV ads, according to Kantar Media/CMAG estimates — leaving millions of dollars JCN had pledged to spend unaccounted for.The puzzle of Trump’s mysterious inaugural giftThe only contractor paid by Wellspring last year was BH Group, the mysterious LLC created four months to the day before it made a $1 million donation to the Trump inaugural committee on Dec. 22, 2016.The newly discovered payment for “public relations” follows a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/05/group-that-spent-millions-to-boost-gorsuch-also-paid-mysterious-inaugural-donor/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">$750,000 payment</a> to the newly minted BH Group the prior year as well as <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4463990-Judicial-Crisis-Network-990-2016-2017.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">$947,000</a> from JCN to the BH Group around when the LLC made its inaugural donation.While it initially appeared that BH Group was merely a shell company created solely for the purpose of laundering money into the Trump inaugural committee, more information about the LLC has only added to its mystery.New <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5188744-Judicial-Education-Project-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tax returns</a> reviewed by CRP reveal that Judicial Education Project, JCN’s sister 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, also paid an additional $1.3 million to BH Group LLC last year. Judicial Education Fund keeps its donors anonymous but CRP tracked the bulk of the group’s recent funding to DonorsTrust, which accounted for more than 99 percent of its money last year. Like JCN, Judicial Education Fund has also been funded by Wellspring in prior years.One name that CRP has <a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article210176219.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tied</a> to the mysterious LLC is Leonard Leo, the executive vice president at the Federalist Society, an influential conservative and libertarian legal organization, who listed “BH Group” as his employer in a campaign finance filing reported to the Federal Election Commission.Leo’s more widely known affiliation with the Federalist Society has gained attention after reports that it played a substantial role guiding the hand of Trump’s White House in its judicial nomination process, including in the selection of Supreme Court justices.Ann Corkery, the Wellspring Committee’s former president and wife of current president Neil Corkery, has <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/05/mystery-gift-to-trump-inauguration-from-conservative-activists/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly</a> worked closely with him in this process and Leo has been “directly involved” in raising much of the anonymous money the Wellspring Committee brings in every year.A public records request <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/03/secret-contributions-to-trump-inauguration/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">revealed</a> that Leo and another Federalist Society vice president have also been involved in a nonprofit called the BH Fund, which was set up to enforce a donor agreement between an anonymous $20 million donor and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, whose president came under fire for allowing donors to dictate conditions in return for financial gifts.Incorporation records list BH Group’s address as a virtual office in Arlington, Va. and the only identified point of contact is Donna Smith, whose name matches that of a longtime paralegal at Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky, the law firm that shared a Warrenton, Va. office with the address the Trump inaugural committee on its tax return. Continuing the money churnStaying the course from prior years, Wellspring also gave $400,000 to the Catholic Association, $48,000 to the Annual Fund and $350,000 to the Foundation for Government Accountability’s 501(c)(4) arm, FGA Action.Another appendage of the Corkerys’ dark money web is the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a nonprofit run by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker before he became Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff, as CRP <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/04/new-nonprofit-tied-to-stealthy-circle-of-dark-money-groups/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">first reported</a> in 2016. Like Wellspring, JCN and the Judicial Education Project, Neil Corkery is also the treasurer of FACT. Nearly 100 percent of FACT’s funding came from a single anonymous donor each year since the group was created in 2014, which CRP <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/one-donor-accounts-for-all-dark-money-funding-whitakers-nonprofit/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">discovered</a> came entirely from a donor-advised fund called <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2783557-Donors-Trust-2014-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">DonorsTrust</a>.In addition to longstanding dark money stalwarts that have realigned their priorities for the Trump era, new groups spending heavily in support of Trump’s agenda also weighed in on Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation battle but are not entirely isolated from the Washington swamp Trump pledged to drain.Wellspring was one of the early donors of 45Committee, another 501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofit that primarily exists to support Trump’s agenda which <a href="https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/1037813122298511361" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">spent</a> on ads supporting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation this year. Another spender was America First Policies, the 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization staffed by former Trump campaign and White House personnel that has become the main dark money group supporting Trump’s agenda.Although America First Policies itself does not reveal donors’ identities, CRP <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/pro-trump-dark-money-group-tax-return/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">traced</a> over a quarter of its funding to major corporate players, including <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5188743-2017-Corporate-Contributions-to-501-C-4-and-501.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Reynolds American</a> and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000504" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America</a> (PhRMA), a trade group representing the drug company industry’s lobbying interests.New <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5141937-Great-America-Alliance-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tax documents</a> filed by another pro-Trump nonprofit, Great America Alliance, show it raised and spent around $3.4 million during that period. Unlike America First Policies, which reported millions more in previously undisclosed political spending it its new tax return, Great America Alliance claimed that it “educated voters through direct and indirect political advocacy messaging nationwide within the scope of applicable laws and regulations.”This highlights one of the many legal grey areas emerging in the wake of Trump’s unprecedented move to register as a candidate for the 2020 presidential election on his first day in office — leaving the vast majority of financiers behind the growing network of dark money groups spending on his agenda a mystery.====<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5141937-Great-America-Alliance-2017-990.html">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5141937-Great-America-Alliance-2017-990.html</a><pre class="DV-textContents" style="box-sizing: content-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.4em; overflow: hidden; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 46px;">(Revenue $)

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<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/trump-inauguration-money-links-secretive-dark-money/">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/trump-inauguration-money-links-secretive-dark-money/</a>Notorious “dark money” conduit <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/tag/wellspring-committee/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wellspring Committee</a> gave $14.8 million to the primary spender on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and paid $919,900 to the mysterious LLC that made a $1 million donation to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, according to a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5299825-Wellspring-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">new tax return</a> obtained Nov. 27 by the Center for Responsive Politics.Wellspring has acted as a conduit for large contributions from secretive donors since it was set up, effectively laundering multi-million dollar donations with no substantive disclosure or accountability.Despite operating behind the scenes with a name unknown to most of the American public, Wellspring is at the crux of Ann and Neil Corkery’s network of politically active dark money groups, funneling millions from anonymous financiers to political causes they don’t want their names attached to — and doing ostensibly little else.Wellspring has continued to be the chief financier of the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000026924" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Judicial Crisis Network</a> (JCN), with a $14,814,998 contribution last year.JCN is another nondisclosing politically active nonprofit linked to the Corkerys’ network of conservative dark money groups. It has become the predominant dark money spender in Supreme Court <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/09/kavanaugh-confirmation-dark-money/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">confirmation fights</a> as a vehicle for deep-pocketed donors to funnel millions of dollars behind or against judicial nominees.Since 2010, Wellspring has funneled more than $54.2 million to JCN, according to tax returns obtained by CRP.The bulk of Wellspring’s funds that came from three multi-million dollar secret donors in 2017, a shift from prior years in which the biggest amount the group received from a single mystery donor increased with each passing year. The largest donor accounted for $8.9 million, another gave $5.5 million and a third secret donor provided $2 million — but all of their identities remain hidden from the public.The biggest anonymous contribution to Wellspring in 2016 was nearly $28.5 million, a jump from $8.5 million in 2015 and $6.96 million in 2014. That one secret donor accounted for around 90 percent of Wellspring’s funding in 2016, a year it gave $23 million to JCN.As a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, JCN is not required to report its donors to the IRS — and chooses not to disclose its funders’ identities to the public — so its only discoverable donors are other entities like Wellspring that act as conduits for the anonymous money directed at JCN.JCN was back in the limelight this year as the biggest spender in support of Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Following its tried and true playbook, JCN launched its first ad about Kavanaugh before Trump even finished announcing his nomination and soon after announced plans to spend $10 million on his confirmation. JCN pledged $10 million <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/11/web-of-secret-money-hides-one-mega-donor-funding-conservative-court/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">to support</a> the successful confirmation of Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, the prior year and reported spending $7 million to block the confirmation of Merrick Garland before President Barack Obama left office.JCN has also spent substantial sums on lobbyists, including <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=77747" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jon Kyl,</a> who lobbied to help JCN marshall in Gorsuch’s nomination before becoming the official White House “sherpa” guiding Kavanaugh through that same process. He was later appointed to fill the late Sen. John McCain’s seat — ultimately enabling him to vote for the confirmation he was once tasked with helping Kavanaugh secure.JCN <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/10/only-a-fraction-of-dark-money-spending-on-kavanaugh-disclosed/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">spent</a> $483,246 in total on Facebook ads and just $1,900 on Google platforms around the fight to confirm Kavanaugh with an estimated reach of potentially millions of Facebook users.TV advertising made up the bulk of JCN’s reported spending on Kavanaugh with around $3.9 million going TV ads, according to Kantar Media/CMAG estimates — leaving millions of dollars JCN had pledged to spend unaccounted for.The puzzle of Trump’s mysterious inaugural giftThe only contractor paid by Wellspring last year was BH Group, the mysterious LLC created four months to the day before it made a $1 million donation to the Trump inaugural committee on Dec. 22, 2016.The newly discovered payment for “public relations” follows a <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/05/group-that-spent-millions-to-boost-gorsuch-also-paid-mysterious-inaugural-donor/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">$750,000 payment</a> to the newly minted BH Group the prior year as well as <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4463990-Judicial-Crisis-Network-990-2016-2017.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">$947,000</a> from JCN to the BH Group around when the LLC made its inaugural donation.While it initially appeared that BH Group was merely a shell company created solely for the purpose of laundering money into the Trump inaugural committee, more information about the LLC has only added to its mystery.New <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5188744-Judicial-Education-Project-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tax returns</a> reviewed by CRP reveal that Judicial Education Project, JCN’s sister 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, also paid an additional $1.3 million to BH Group LLC last year. Judicial Education Fund keeps its donors anonymous but CRP tracked the bulk of the group’s recent funding to DonorsTrust, which accounted for more than 99 percent of its money last year. Like JCN, Judicial Education Fund has also been funded by Wellspring in prior years.One name that CRP has <a href="https://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article210176219.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tied</a> to the mysterious LLC is Leonard Leo, the executive vice president at the Federalist Society, an influential conservative and libertarian legal organization, who listed “BH Group” as his employer in a campaign finance filing reported to the Federal Election Commission.Leo’s more widely known affiliation with the Federalist Society has gained attention after reports that it played a substantial role guiding the hand of Trump’s White House in its judicial nomination process, including in the selection of Supreme Court justices.Ann Corkery, the Wellspring Committee’s former president and wife of current president Neil Corkery, has <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/05/mystery-gift-to-trump-inauguration-from-conservative-activists/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly</a> worked closely with him in this process and Leo has been “directly involved” in raising much of the anonymous money the Wellspring Committee brings in every year.A public records request <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/03/secret-contributions-to-trump-inauguration/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">revealed</a> that Leo and another Federalist Society vice president have also been involved in a nonprofit called the BH Fund, which was set up to enforce a donor agreement between an anonymous $20 million donor and the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, whose president came under fire for allowing donors to dictate conditions in return for financial gifts.Incorporation records list BH Group’s address as a virtual office in Arlington, Va. and the only identified point of contact is Donna Smith, whose name matches that of a longtime paralegal at Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky, the law firm that shared a Warrenton, Va. office with the address the Trump inaugural committee on its tax return. Continuing the money churnStaying the course from prior years, Wellspring also gave $400,000 to the Catholic Association, $48,000 to the Annual Fund and $350,000 to the Foundation for Government Accountability’s 501(c)(4) arm, FGA Action.Another appendage of the Corkerys’ dark money web is the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a nonprofit run by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker before he became Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff, as CRP <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/04/new-nonprofit-tied-to-stealthy-circle-of-dark-money-groups/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">first reported</a> in 2016. Like Wellspring, JCN and the Judicial Education Project, Neil Corkery is also the treasurer of FACT. Nearly 100 percent of FACT’s funding came from a single anonymous donor each year since the group was created in 2014, which CRP <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/one-donor-accounts-for-all-dark-money-funding-whitakers-nonprofit/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">discovered</a> came entirely from a donor-advised fund called <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2783557-Donors-Trust-2014-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">DonorsTrust</a>.In addition to longstanding dark money stalwarts that have realigned their priorities for the Trump era, new groups spending heavily in support of Trump’s agenda also weighed in on Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation battle but are not entirely isolated from the Washington swamp Trump pledged to drain.Wellspring was one of the early donors of 45Committee, another 501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofit that primarily exists to support Trump’s agenda which <a href="https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/1037813122298511361" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">spent</a> on ads supporting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation this year. Another spender was America First Policies, the 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization staffed by former Trump campaign and White House personnel that has become the main dark money group supporting Trump’s agenda.Although America First Policies itself does not reveal donors’ identities, CRP <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/pro-trump-dark-money-group-tax-return/" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">traced</a> over a quarter of its funding to major corporate players, including <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5188743-2017-Corporate-Contributions-to-501-C-4-and-501.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Reynolds American</a> and <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000504" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America</a> (PhRMA), a trade group representing the drug company industry’s lobbying interests.New <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5141937-Great-America-Alliance-2017-990.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">tax documents</a> filed by another pro-Trump nonprofit, Great America Alliance, show it raised and spent around $3.4 million during that period. Unlike America First Policies, which reported millions more in previously undisclosed political spending it its new tax return, Great America Alliance claimed that it “educated voters through direct and indirect political advocacy messaging nationwide within the scope of applicable laws and regulations.”This highlights one of the many legal grey areas emerging in the wake of Trump’s unprecedented move to register as a candidate for the 2020 presidential election on his first day in office — leaving the vast majority of financiers behind the growing network of dark money groups spending on his agenda a mystery.<div class="widget_text awac-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><div class="widget_text awac widget custom_html-5" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; max-height: 1e+06px; border: 1px dotted; padding: 11px; 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Variety: Fox News signed Tomi Lahren as a contributor. Fox News announced on August 30 that “conservative media host Tomi Lahren has joined Fox News in a contributor role,” according to Variety magazine. Lahren will reportedly “have a signature role on the network’s upcoming digital lineup and will also offer political commentary to the network’s opinion programming, primarily ‘Hannity.’” From the August 30 article:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left; width: 612.75px;">Conservative media host Tomi Lahren has joined Fox News in a contributor role, the cable news network announced Wednesday.She will make her debut as a contributor on tonight’s edition of “Hannity” at 10 p.m. ET/PT. According to FNC, Lahren will have a signature role on the network’s upcoming digital lineup and will also offer political commentary to the network’s opinion programming, primarily “Hannity.” [Variety, <a href="http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-tomi-lahren-contributor-1202542708/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/30/17</a>]</blockquote><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lahren recently had a weeklong residency on Fox’s Hannity where she complemented Hannity’s pro-Trump propaganda</h2>During her weeklong “audition” on Fox, Lahren ripped a page from Hannity’s playbook, attacking mainstream media and other Republicans while heaping praise on Trump. During her monologues for “The Final Word” segment of Hannity in July, Lahren attacked media outlets for reporting on President Donald Trump’s Twitter habits, criticized celebrities as having “Trump derangement syndrome” for speaking out against the president, and warned Trump dissidents in the Republican Party to get behind the president’s agenda:<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 25px 30px 10px; margin: 20px 20px 25px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; float: left; width: 612.75px;">Lahren seems to have auditioned for the Hannity role in mid-July, when she appeared for a weeklong stretch on “The Final Word,” a taped monologue segment at the end of Hannity’s show. Other recent participants include pro-Trump commentators Diamond and Silk and Terrence Williams of YouTube.Lahren’s “The Final Word” monologues, much like Hannity’s own performances, feature a mix of pro-Trump cheerleading, criticism of his foes, and policy pablum. She attacked the “leftist mainstream media” for “nitpicking” Trump’s habits while ignoring that the “average American is making a comeback under this president.” She criticized the “Hollywood elitist[s]” like Kathy Griffin, Johnny Depp, and Madonna, and their “Trump derangement syndrome.” She also complained that the rest of the Republican Party refuses to get on board and pass the president’s agenda. [Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/08/30/tomi-lahren-hire-shows-21st-century-fox-complicit-hannitys-cesspool/217807" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/30/17</a>]</blockquote><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lahren has built her career on attacking liberals</h2>Lahren got her start on One America News Network by attacking President Obama for failing to blame “radical Islam” for Chattanooga terror attack. The Guardian reported that after getting rejected for an internship at Glenn Beck’s staunchly conservative news outlet TheBlaze in 2014, she found a welcome home at One America News Network (OANN), a right-wing news network that has become a key peg in Trump’s propaganda mill. Lahren hosted On Point and gained notoriety after admonishing then-President Barack Obama for his “reluctance to blame Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s shootings on a military recruiting centre and navy reserve base in Chattanooga on ‘radical Islam.’” Obama declined to use the term in order to avoid “lump[ing] these murderers into the billion Muslims that exist around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful.” The Guardian’s profile of Lahren noted that she would later be dubbed “white power Barbie” for her inflammatory racial and nativist rhetoric. [The Guardian, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/tomi-lahren-conservative-white-power-barbie" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/23/16</a>; Media Matters, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/01/19/meet-oann-another-right-wing-outlet-shilling-trump/215054" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/19/17</a>; CNN, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/politics/obama-radical-islamic-terrorism-cnn-town-hall/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/29/16</a>]Lahren then got a job at TheBlaze where she used her platform to berate liberal activists, usually referring to them as “snowflakes.” After leaving OANN, Lahren joined TheBlaze where she often dedicated entire segments to attacking progressive activists, calling them “snowflakes.” In one instance, she offered a number of different definitions for the term “snowflake,” declaring, “If you believe illegal immigrants should be able to get driver's licenses and in-state tuition and Obamacare, you might be a snowflake,” and “If the term ‘White Christmas’ seems racist to you, you might be a snowflake.” Another time, according to The Daily Beast, Lahren directly addressed liberals, saying, “I am your worst nightmare. I don’t care what you label me or how many times you come for me. I am fearless and I’m just getting started.” [TheBlaze, <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/video/final-thoughts-what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-snowflake/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/10/17</a>; The Daily Beast, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/tomi-lahren-is-terrible-period" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">12/9/16</a>]<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before landing a spot at Fox News, Lahren worked for a pro-Trump super PAC subsidiary</h2>Dallas Morning News: Lahren joined an arm of Great America Alliance PAC as a “side gig” while she was weighing TV options. In May, Dallas Morning News reported that Lahren was joining “Great America Alliance, a nonprofit promoting President Donald Trump’s agenda, as its senior adviser for communications,” which was “formed by people behind the Great America PAC, the largest such group to support Trump.” Great America Alliance co-founder Eric Beach told the Dallas newspaper, “Tomi was an important and impactful voice in support of Donald Trump during the campaign.” [Dallas Morning News, <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas/2017/05/22/tomi-lahren-joins-pro-trump-group-side-gig-weighing-tv-options" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/22/17</a>]<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lahren frequently uses racist dog whistles in her angry monologues</h2>In a tweet that has since been deleted, Lahren wrote, “Meet the new KKK, they call themselves 'Black Lives Matter.'”<img alt="" height="307" src="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2017/08/30/tomi.png" width="400" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 645px; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" /> [The Baltimore Sun, <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bal-reckless-tweet-tomi-lahren-black-lives-matter-cnn-today-20160710-story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">7/10/16</a>]<div style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lahren claimed that the Black Entertainment Television network’s “definition of a humanitarian is someone who perpetuates a war on cops.” According to The Daily Beast, in response to actor Jesse Williams’ acceptance speech “indicting systemic racism and pleading for equality and justice” at the 2016 BET awards, Lahren remarked, “The BET definition of a humanitarian is someone who perpetuates a war on cops.” Lahren also said that using “the term unarmed black man” when describing an unarmed victim of police brutality “may be literally accurate, but it doesn’t tell the whole story in most cases. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for a lack of trying.” [The Daily Beast, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/tomi-lahren-is-terrible-period" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">12/9/16</a>]Lahren attacked Colin Kaepernick as a “whiny, indulgent, attention-seeking cry baby” for declining to stand for the national anthem in protest of racial injustice. After football player Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem as a way of protesting racial oppression and police brutality, Lahren labeled him a “whiny, indulgent, attention-seeking cry baby.” She also addressed Kaepernick, saying, “It seems to me blaming white people for all of your problems might make you the racist.” [YouTube, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU62YQttC18" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">9/15/16</a>]<h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);">Lahren has insisted that immigrants and refugees are criminals and rapists that would cause a “fundamental transformation” of their new country</h2>Lahren used “A Day Without Immigrants” to cast undocumented immigrants as violent criminals. Lahren dedicated one of her monologues to criticize “A Day Without Immigrants,” a “combination boycott/strike” that meant to highlight “the contributions of immigrants to U.S. business and culture,” falsely asserting that, “a day without illegal immigrants means a safer America for us all as illegal immigrants are three times as likely to be convicted of murder as members of the general population.” [YouTube, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtdDyw7X14I" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/16/17</a>; NPR, <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/16/515555428/a-day-without-immigrants-promises-a-national-strike-thursday" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">2/16/17</a>; CBS News, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrants-and-crime-how-big-a-problem-is-crime-committed-by-immigrants/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/27/17</a>]Lahren: “I, quite frankly, am tired of pressing two.” In 2015, Lahren opened one of her monologues saying, “Let’s talk about immigration because I, quite frankly, am tired of pressing two.” She was referring to the option to press two for Spanish when calling customer service phone numbers and later implied that being an American meant speaking English, an ideal frequently pushed by anti-immigrant nativist groups. In between making these nativist remarks, she attempted to whitewash her anti-immigrant rhetoric, commenting, “Transferring frustration with a broken system into hate for our fellow human beings does not solve the problem.” [YouTube, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ASstMdhl_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">10/27/15</a>; Southern Poverty Law Center, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/08/27/anti-immigrant-group-proenglish-fails-english-only-effort-maryland" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">8/27/15</a>]Lahren called refugees “rape-ugees”:<div class="media_embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-0" data-tweet-id="687775465562492928" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); max-width: 100%; width: 500px; min-width: 220px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div data-twitter-event-id="0" class="SandboxRoot env-bp-350" style="direction: ltr; background: 0px 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4;" segoe="Segoe" ui="UI" calibri="Calibri" sans-serif="sans-serif" color="color" rgb="rgb" white-space="white-space" initial="initial" position="position" relative="relative"><div class="EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent" data-click-to-open-target="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/687775465562492928" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-dt-full="%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}" data-dt-explicit-timestamp="4:17 PM - Jan 14, 2016" data-dt-months="Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec" data-dt-am="AM" data-dt-pm="PM" data-dt-now="now" data-dt-s="s" data-dt-m="m" data-dt-h="h" data-dt-second="second" data-dt-seconds="seconds" data-dt-minute="minute" data-dt-minutes="minutes" data-dt-hour="hour" data-dt-hours="hours" data-dt-abbr="%{number}%{symbol}" data-dt-short="%{day} %{month}" data-dt-long="%{day} %{month} %{year}" data-scribe="page:tweet" id="twitter-widget-0" lang="en" data-twitter-event-id="1" style="overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); border-radius: 5px; max-width: 520px; position: relative;"><div class="EmbeddedTweet-tweet" style="padding: 20px 20px 11.6px;"><blockquote class="Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded

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width: 1000px; height: 370.344px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;">[Twitter,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/687775465562492928" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">1/14/16</a>]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lahren told&nbsp;</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Playboy&nbsp;</em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">that Europe has experienced “a fundamental transformation” due to its refugee policy.&nbsp;</span>Lahren pointed to Europe’s refugee policy as a justification for Trump’s Muslim ban, saying in an interview with&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Playboy magazine</em>, “Look at Europe. They’ve said, ‘Bring them all in,’ and look what’s happening there? It’s a fundamental transformation.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Playboy</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/tomi-lahren-playboy-conversation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/2/17</a>]</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(0, 153, 255); margin: 15px 0px; font-size: 1em; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(0, 153, 255);">Lahren frequently diminishes feminism as a form of “victimhood”</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lahren claimed feminists use the obstacles women face as “an excuse to fall short.”&nbsp;</span>Without giving any evidence, Lahren claimed on International Women’s Day that feminist activists cast themselves as victims and feel they “deserve special treatment because [they] have ovaries and menstrual cycles.” She also said, “Yeah, some challenges might be a little greater for some women but let me tell you — it feels a whole hell of a lot better to overcome those challenges than it does to dwell on them, complain about them, or use them as an excuse to fall short.” [TheBlaze,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/video/tomi-lahren-offers-a-clear-message-to-left-wing-feminists-this-is-what-real-women-look-like/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">3/8/17</a>]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lahren dismissed modern-day feminism as the "dumbest load of hypocritical crap ever masqueraded as an equality movement."&nbsp;</span>Lahren responded to news that Aleppo, Syria, was being evacuated as a result of the country’s raging civil war by attacking the United Nations’ decision to remove Wonder Woman as an honorary ambassador, attributing the move to the pressure by “feminist cry babies.” Lahren also dismissed modern-day feminism as&nbsp;the “dumbest load of hypocritical crap ever masqueraded as an equality movement.” [TheBlaze,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/video/wonder-woman-is-out-of-the-u-n-because-she-doesnt-send-the-right-message/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">12/15/16</a>]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lahren falsely claimed that feminism is “wanting free abortions or free birth control” and is based on “a false statistic like the 77 cents on the dollar bullshit.”&nbsp;</span>Lahren told&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Playboy</em>&nbsp;that feminism is “bad” for the U.S. and misinterpreted the feminist movement as one that simplifies women’s issues “into wanting free abortions or free birth control” and “using a false statistic like the 77 cents on the dollar bullshit.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Playboy</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.playboy.com/articles/tomi-lahren-playboy-conversation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">5/2/17</a>]</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; -webkit-margin-before: 1em; -webkit-margin-after: 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Lahren lauded conservative women for “dressing like women” as opposed to liberals who wear pant suits.&nbsp;</span>Speaking at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit, Lahren characterized modern feminists as being “all about ‘give me.’ It’s ‘Give me this. Give me this. Pay for my birth control. Pay for my abortions.” She also told her audience, “You notice the difference between a conservative women’s conference and a liberal women’s conference, because you all dress like women.” [YouTube,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw-IqoEL7Uo" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">6/23/16</a>]</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></twitterwidget></div></div>