Seamus Bruner, the research director at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), highlighted that left-leaning financiers, notably billionaire Neville Roy Singham, are supporting Antifa’s riots and protests.
In a roundtable discussion on Antifa with President Donald Trump, Bruner explained that he and GAI President Peter Schweitzer, along with their team, “traced” financial pathways “all the way to the top” of what they termed the Protest Industrial Park, or Riot Inc. This network encompasses various factions, with numerous extremist groups receiving substantial funding from Riot.
“We discovered a complex of NGOs, not limited to the Soros or Open Society networks, but branching out to other funding sources like the Arabella Funding Network and Tides Funding Network, along with Neville Roy Singham’s network and some foreign funding,” Bruner elaborated. “These are significant left-wing contributors, including some who aren’t U.S. citizens.”
Bruner also noted that these left-leaning financiers are “infusing money into this entire structure.”
He proceeded to outline “three financial facts” about Riot, detailing its “multiple departments,” which comprise a “PR department, a marketing department,” and even a “well-resourced legal team.”
“Additionally, we recognized not just decentralized Antifa groups, but also numerous extremist organizations that have received over $100 million from Riot investors,” Bruner stated. “These individuals are likely a cohort of lawyers who label decent Americans as fascists.”
“Perhaps the most surprising aspect is that we found over $100 million of U.S. taxpayer money flowing into these financial systems, including at least $4 million directed to these entities themselves,” Bruner noted.
Bruner’s reference to Singham follows a Breitbart News Foundation investigation, which indicated that while “British records confirm” Singham’s resignation from ThoughtWorks, the company he launched in 1993, “Chinese government records suggest a different story.”
After founding Thoughtworks, Inc. in 1993 and scaling it into a renowned software consulting firm, Singham helped facilitate its sale in October 2017 to a private equity group managed by Apax Partners for about $785 million. British corporate records affirm that Singham stepped down from ThoughtWorks that same month, and his LinkedIn indicates he’s been retired since 2017. On ThoughtWorks’ English website, Singham appears in the “alumni” section, supporting the idea of his full retirement.
However, Chinese records indicate otherwise. They list Singham as an executive officer of ThoughtWorks Beijing, a branch of ThoughtWorks in China, valid through June 17, 2025, and at least since 2022. This information comes from China’s corporate registry system. Other documents, including a profile for a job listing, also named Singham as the official contact for ThoughtWorks Beijing in 2021.
In June, it became known that Singham was set to testify before a Congressional committee about his connections to “extreme anti-Israel and Marxist groups” linked to the Los Angeles riots.
Bruner wrote in June about how GAI revealed the “official partners” of the “No Kings” protests “extorted $114.8 million from the Arabella Advisors underground financial network since 2019, and how professional protest organizations are utilizing taxpayer dollars for leverage.”
Bruner articulated:
The anticipated global protests against President Donald Trump this weekend won’t be arising spontaneously. Rather, the turmoil was meticulously orchestrated, spearheaded by the Indivisible Project and funded by the Progress dark money network, guided by Arabella Advisors, refining the buildup to a tailored protest movement. Since 2019, the Arabella Network has channeled over $100 million into the official “No Kings” protest partners’ resources, including the creators of the official protest songbook.
Organizers assert the “grassroots” “national day of defiance” aims at President Trump and his “billionaire allies.” The Arabella Network’s primary supporters are some of the prominent leftist billionaires, including George Soros, Bill Gates, Hansjorg Wyss, Mark Zuckerberg, and Reid Hoffman.
During the roundtable, Bruner committed to “continuing to pursue the money” and expressed his appreciation for “everything” about President Trump.
