'Let me make a guess: the money was fossil fuel-related, and will buy continued Republican obstruction of obviously necessary climate measures. That's the pattern,' suggested SenWhitehouse.
, has"made significant contributions to DonorsTrust through their foundation called the Knowledge and Progress Fund."
"DonorsTrust promises to only funnel money to groups with an extreme anti-environmental bent," CMD adds., DonorsTrust used the massive donations it received last year to"support a vast network" of conservative initiatives,"including a $17.1 million gift it made to The 85 Fund, a group founded by a major engine of the conservative movement: Leonard Leo."
The co-chairman and former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, Leo has been instrumental in the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court, and"His expanded effort focuses on a variety of causes," theobserved,"including restricting abortion rights in the states; ending affirmative action; defending religious groups accused of discriminating against LGBTQ people; opposing what he sees as liberal policies being espoused by corporations and schools; electing...
Leo, who controls a dark money organization called the Marble Freedom Trust, was also at the center of a massive—and likely unprecedented—donation that the
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