Leonard Leo selects Republican judges

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The last months there have been some stories on US Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas not disclosing expensive gifts from his “friends”.
A much bigger story (that never got the publicity it deserved) is that Knight of Malta and Opus Dei, Leonard Leo, selects many of the judges that get nominated by Republican politicians (including Clarence Thomas).
Leonard Leo is also associated with the 3 currents Republican presidential candidates that get the most publicity – Trump, DeSantis and Ramaswamy.


A guy named Leonard Leo is on the board of directors of Opus Dei’s Catholic Information Center located 2 blocks from the White House. Leo is also of the legal association Federalist Society.
Leonard Leo is reponsible for making president Donald install 4 US Supreme Court justices – John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
Leo “highly recommended” none other than William Barr, who was nominated by president Donald as Attorney General.

Trump appointed the “intensely anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ group” C-Fam for the US delegation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. C-Fam is headed by Opus Dei’s Austin Ruse.

In 1982, Pope John Paul II put the secret society Opus Dei under the sole jurisdiction of the pope.
According to Gordon Urquhart:

Opus Dei pursues the Vatican’s agenda through the presence of its members in secular governments and institutions and through a vast array of academic, medical, and grassroots pursuits. Its constant effort [is] to increase its presence in civil institutions of power.
Their work in the public sphere breaches the church-state division that is fundamental to modern democracy

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Because of Opus Dei’s secrecy, we can only guess about non-disclosed membership.
It is claimed that it is "widely known" that Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas are members of Opus Dei, while Chief Justice John Roberts "may" also be a member, according to former priest Matthew Fox.
Trump awarded Scalia the the highest civilian award in the US, the Presidential Medal of Freedom: http://churchandstate.org.uk/2019/03...u-s-judiciary/
(https://archive.fo/CLmob)

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Leo is also a Knight of Malta, a secret society under the authority of the Vatican (like Opus Dei).
Leo is also a member of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a favourite topic for some American left-wing conspiracy theorists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo


Leonard Leo has put 5 justices on the Supreme Court: Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Sam Alito, and John Roberts. With a sixth, Clarence Thomas, one of his closest friends.
In the lower courts, Leo installed so many judges on so many courts that it's almost impossible to keep count.



Leonard Leo scooped up a $3.3 million luxury estate on the Maine coast, which was sold to him for almost a million bucks less than the value by the estate of fellow Knight of Malta and CNP member, the late CEO of the chemical company W.R. Grace, J. Peter Grace: https://archive.ph/ZJQG3


William P. Barr (attorney general under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Trump) was also a board member of Opus Dei’s Catholic Information Center’s K Street NW location, but Opus Dei officially denied he is a member!
Leonard Leo is also a board member, as well as executive vice president of the Federalist Society.

Trump supporter Newt Gingrich is also close to Opus Dei, and provides Pope Francis with direct access to Trump.
This also explains Trump’s appointment of Callista Gingrich as US Ambassador to the Vatican: https://churchandstate.org.uk/2019/0...dors-of-power/

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Leonard Leo is part of a network that was financed by Charles Koch and Robert and his daughter Rebekah Mercer.


Robert and Rebekah Mercer, some of the biggest funders of Trump's campaign, invested nearly $20 million in the Donors Trust in 2020. Donors Trust raised over $350 million in 2020 and gave out (only) $180 million in grants.
Donors Trust is not required to disclose their (dark money) donors.

Leo ally Carrie Severino (president of the Judicial Crisis Network) is listed as secretary of the 85 Fund.
The 85 Fund got more than $20 million from the Donors Trust. It is not known if they got donations from any other group: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/trum...n-in-2020.html


Leonard Leo is also director of Reclaim New York, funded and controlled by Robert Mercer and his daughters. Rebekah Mercer chairs Reclaim New York, while another daughter of Robert, Jennifer Mercer, is also on its board.

Before Stephen K. Bannon joined the Trump administration, he received a seven-figure salary working for Reclaim New York. Lying Donald's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was a founding director of Reclaim New York Initiative (the lobbying arm of Reclaim New York).
Reclaim New York was originally housed on the same floor of the same NYC building as Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica was the privacy violating subsidiary of the British royal controlled SCL Group that played a major role in getting Donald crowned US president. Robert Mercer invested at least $10 million in Cambridge Analytica: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reclaim_New_York


For more on Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Group: Trump Election Consultant Firm Cambridge Analytica Execs Caught Discussing Extortion,Fake News

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Leonard Leo? You don’t say…

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ugh-for-SCOTUS

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Leonard Leo? You don’t say…

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...ugh-for-SCOTUS

So you already knew about Leonard Leo before me? It’s a shame that you (or other members of Ronpaulforums) didn’t follow up on the investigation of Leo.
Not even when Leo’s friend Clarance Thomas got pushed into the spotlight repeatedly about “forgetting” to disclose the expensive gifts he (and his wife Ginni) received.

I’ve already posted about Leonard Leo’s links to Trump, Opus Dei / Sovereign Military Order of Malta (that’s the Vatican), and Cambridge Analytica / SCL Group (that’s the British royals).
In my next post I will connect the dots to the Jewish zionist Barre Seid, Leo’s biggest funder.

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Maybe you wrongly assume that the biggest donor to the Conservative Catholic Leonard Leo would be a Conservative Catholic...

In one of those great examples of "charity", the billionaire Barre Seid in 2021 donated his electronics manufacturing company worth $1.65 billion, Tripp Lite, to the newly-established radical right non-profit Marble Freedom Trust. Tripp Lite was then sold to the Irish company Eaton, evading capital gains taxes on the sale.
One of the first donations Marble Freedom Trust made from this $1.65 billion, was $41 million to the "dark money" Donors Trust.

Marble Freedom Trust lists member of CNP, Opus Dei, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, judge selector Leonard Leo, as its Chairman and Trustee.
The phone number listed for Marble Freedom Trust is the Palm Beach, Florida phone number of the same Neil Corkery that has been heavily tied to (other) dark money groups.

Barre Seid has been reported as the funder of the 2008 conspiracy theories that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the US and is a Muslim. It isn't clear to me whether this was done to harm or boost Wall Street lawyer Obama's chances to become elected...
Salon named Seid as the likely donor of $16.775 million of the $17,778,600 that was paid to the Clarion Fund through Donors Capital Fund to produce the Obama race-baiting film in 2008: https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/...icks-campaign/


Barre Seid is a Zionist Jew that received an honorary degree from the Israeli university Bar-Ilan for his donations to Jewish causes that “fortify Israel’s position in the world”?
Seid has donated generously to the Cato Institute, the Americans for Limited Government Foundation, and the (Zionist) David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Seid was also (almost certainly) the anonymous donor behind the film distributed by the Clarion Fund “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War With the West”.
Featured in the film are interviews with Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, and (Jeffrey Epstein's buddy) Alan Dershowitz: https://www.salon.com/2010/11/16/cla...bsession_dvds/

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In one of those great examples of "charity", the billionaire Barre Seid in 2021 donated his electronics manufacturing company worth $1.65 billion, Tripp Lite, to the newly-established radical right non-profit Marble Freedom Trust. Tripp Lite was then sold to the Irish company Eaton, evading capital gains taxes on the sale.

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Seid has donated generously to the Cato Institute, the Americans for Limited Government Foundation, and the (Zionist) David Horowitz Freedom Center.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center and Daniel Pipes are associated with the Gatestone Institute that connects Zionist Conservatives in the US to the extreme right Zionism in Europe.

Gatestone is primarily financed by member of the CFR Nina Rosenwald. Rosenwald’s foundation also finances Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, and David Horowitz.
Rebekah Mercer funds Gatestone Media via her family foundation and was a member of the Gatestone Institute “board of governors”.
The Gatestone Institute included (includes?) Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz as a “distinguished senior fellow”.

Gatestone has heavily promoted Marine le Pen (France), Geert Wilders (Netherlands), Matteo Salvini (Italy), Viktor Orban (Hungary), and the “far right” AFD party (Germany): Trump-Election-Consultant-Firm-Cambridge-Analytica-Execs-Caught-Discussing-Extortion-Fake-News


David Horowitz is promoted as a right wing conservative, but is really an extremist Zionist supporter of Israel, ultimately serving the geopolitical goals of the British Empire. In the early 1960s, Horowitz was recruited by British intelligence and moved to London to work with the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.
Horowitz behind the scenes also played a role in Donald’s “drain the swamp” campaign strategy.


David Horowitz’s son, Ben Horowitz, is a co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Ben Horowitz’s long-time business partner Marc Andreessen was the other co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz. In 2016, Andreessen supported Clinton for president.
In March 2022, Marc Andreessen was appointed to Biden’s Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Marc Andreessen is also close to Clinton insider Larry Summers, who in turn was a mentor to none other than Yuri Milner and friends with… Jeffrey Epstein: Boycott-the-elections

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In 2019, Ron DeSantis said at Leo's Federalist Society’s annual convention in Washington DC that Leonard Leo had helped him pick 3 conservative judges for the Florida Supreme Court.

Leo in turn lauded DeSantis for placing “great emphasis on originalism”, the legal concept that the Constitution should be viewed in the context in which it was originally written.
DeSantis way back in his days at law school was an active member of the Harvard Law School Federalist Society: https://floridaphoenix.com/2019/11/1...ourt-justices/
(https://archive.is/Ts6lE)


In Leo’s plans, Teneo (not the similarly named consulting firm associated with former Bill Clinton officials) plays an important role.

Teneo’s annual retreat brings together such luminairies as - DeSantis, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Dick and Betsy DeVos, their Blackwater founder in-law Erik Prince, New York Times columnist David Brooks, federal judge Trevor McFadden, and 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: https://www.propublica.org/article/l...deos-documents

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Opus Dei’s Influence on the U.S. Judiciary

“Leonard Leo can take credit for installing four Supreme Court justices” – John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. “As executive vice president of the Federalist Society, Leo has been the quiet architect of a pivotal shift to the right throughout the federal judiciary” including “dozens of lower court federal judges across the country.”

It was Leo who prepared Trump’s “list of judges and the people that he’s put on the bench.”

Leo is on the board of directors of Opus Dei’s Catholic Information Center located at 15th and K Street, two blocks from the White House. The Center is “a rallying point for ultra-conservative Catholics eager for a voice in the secular halls of government power” and “advances a hard-right political agenda,” according to Church and State, Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s magazine.
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In 1982, Pope John Paul II designated the group as a “personal prelature,” that is, they are under the sole jurisdiction of the pope and no other prelate.
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“Opus Dei pursues the Vatican’s agenda through the presence of its members in secular governments and institutions and through a vast array of academic, medical, and grassroots pursuits. Its constant effort [is] to increase its presence in civil institutions of power. [T]heir work in the public sphere breaches the church-state division that is fundamental to modern democracy,”
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When John Roberts was nominated for the Court, Opus Dei’s Austin Ruse said his fellow conservative Catholics could “breathe easy” and Leonard Leo “also assured conservative Catholics that Roberts will not follow the same path as Anthony Kennedy.”
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“Leo, perhaps the most integral private individual in the selection of Kavanaugh” was present at the White House ceremony when Trump announced Kavanaugh’s nomination. Kavanaugh’s legal thinking is “shaped by Scalia.”
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More: http://churchandstate.org.uk/2019/03...u-s-judiciary/

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Opus Dei’s Influence on the U.S. Judiciary

For more on Opus Dei (ISGP-studies is a Dutch site, with good information on some of the "secret" NWO organisations).
https://isgp-studies.com/opus-dei

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In 2015, Reclaim New York purchased voter data for $15,000.

Cambridge Analytica was also connected to John Bolton’s two Super PACs. Bolton’s PACS received 5 ads to run for candidates Thom Tillis, Tom Cotton, and Scott Brown. In 2018 Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint against Bolton’s Super PAC for making unreported contributions, including advertisements, to Thom Thillis’ campaign. It isn't clear why Tom Cotton and Scott Brown were not included in this complaint.
This suggests that Cambridge Analytica’s data was given to Bolton’s fundraising firm.

In 2017, John Bolton (before he became Trump’s NSA) was awarded “The Guardian of Zion Award” by Gatestone board member Ingeborg Rennert.


Other leaks reveal that "For America" used the same data during the 2014 mid-term elections to target donors.
Also the NRA used the same psychographic targeting messages as the Bolton campaign.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was probably also a Cambridge Analytica client.
Former Walker staffers, Emily Cornell and Matt Oczkowski, moved on to work for Cambridge Analytica. Oczkowski has since founded a successor to Cambridge Analytica, Data Propria: https://archive.md/BhOdQ

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On 21 January 2010, the US Supreme Court voted to open the floodgates to unlimited sums of corporate money in campaigns, including one Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Just 8 days later, Foley & Lardner partner Cleta Mitchell set up the non-profit Liberty Central Inc. on behalf of Ginni Thomas, Clarence Thomas' wife!
General Counsel for Liberty Central in 2010 was Sarah Field (formerly of the Charles G. Koch Foundation), while former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, was a founding board member of Liberty Central.

Liberty Central received $1.478 million from dark money donors in 2009 and 2010.
From 2011 to 2020, Ginni Thomas received “salary and benefits” from Liberty Consulting. Clarence Thomas didn't list a range of salary and benefits for his wife from Liberty Consulting, but instead lists it on his financial disclosure under “Investments” with a “book value” of $100,000 to $250,000 in 2019, which drops to $15,000 to $50,000 in 2020.

Foley & Lardner lawyer Cleta Mitchell, was also involved in the voter fraud fraud, acting as legal counsel when Donald Trump on 2 January 2021 called the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, and told him: “I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break” (for which he was indicted).

Cleta Mitchell also sent an email to the lawyer John Eastman, to write a memo justifying assigning electoral votes to Trump, even though he lost the popular vote in those states

Foley & Lardner employed 3 attorneys that worked as lobbyists for a Koch Industries affiliate, Ray Carey, Jason Childress and Kathleen Walby.

After Donald Trump hired a new lawyer for the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid legal hysteria, Chris Kise, his name was completely removed from the site of the law firm Kise worked for, Foley & Lardner.
Kise was previously a counselor to then Florida Governor-Elect Ron DeSantis’ transition team: https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/...go-court-case/

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The following article insinuates that supreme court judge Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, are corrupt. They were given lavish all-expenses paid for vacations by Republican donor, billionaire Harlan Crow almost every year for more than 20 years without disclosing them.
See Clarence and Ginni Thomas front left, with Harlan Crow back right, Indonesia, July 2019.


Harlan Crow was an early patron of the anti-tax group Club for Growth and a long-time board member of the AEI and Hoover Institution think tanks.
Crow also donated half a million dollars to a Tea Party group founded by Ginni Thomas, who received a $120,000 salary.
Clarence Thomas even went to the notorious Bohemian Grove with Crow.

Leo’s close relationship with Thomas goes back to 1991.
Crow has a painting of hanging out with Thomas, Leonard Leo (who leads the Federalist Society) and Mark Paoletta (chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence and general counsel of president Trump’s Office of Management and Budget).

From left depicted, Peter Rutledge, Leonard Leo, Mark Paoletta, Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow, at Crow's Camp Topridge resort, around 2018.


There seems to be some sort of loophole that allows supreme court judges to go to somebody's "own property" and do not have to report “food, lodging, or entertainment received as personal hospitality". Even with that loophole it isn't allowed to get free transportation, like private jet flights (as Clarence Thomas did): https://www.propublica.org/article/c...vel-gifts-crow
(https://archive.is/vuDhc)

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In 2014, Harlan Crow’s Savannah Historic Developments LLC. purchased an old single-story home and 2 vacant lots down the road on a residential street in Savannah, Georgia that he bought from... Clarence Thomas and his relatives. Thomas "forgot" to disclose this as required by a federal disclosure law passed after Watergate...

Harlan Crow's company paid $133,363 to Thomas and his relatives, which looks to be more than its market value.
In 2013, Crow bought a vacant lot and a small house on the same block for only $40,000.

Because he's such a wonderful friend to single black elderly women, Crow hired an award-winning local architecture firm to begin $36,000 of improvements on the house shortly after he had purchased it.
Thomas’ 94-year-old mother’s still lives there (at least through 2020): https://www.propublica.org/article/c...-estate-scotus


After Harlan Crow bought Clarence Thomas' mother's house in October 2014, and fixing up the place, he let her live there rent-free, which would have saved her an estimated nearly $155,000: https://archive.is/nMEnP

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Two Harlan Crow-affiliated groups have had several cases before the supreme court.
The Enterprise Institute (AEI), which once gave Thomas a $15,000 gift, filed at least 3 briefs in the Supreme Court. The Center for the Community Interest filed briefs in 8 different Supreme Court cases.

Justice Thomas sided with these Harlan Crow-affiliated groups in all of these cases: https://archive.thinkprogress.org/se...-1aaf50c21db8/


In 2008, Clarence Thomas sent his grandnephew Mark Martin Jr., who had been living with him for a decade, to Hidden Lake Academy, and Crow once again covered the $6,000 per month bill. Crow reportedly also had paid the tuition for Mark Martin at the Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia.

This would have cost Harlan Crow more than $150,000: https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-...publica-2023-5

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Leonard Leo got Clarence's wife, Ginni Thomas, "consulting work" in January 2012 for which she was paid nearly $100,000, and made sure that her name was kept off the financial records.
Also in 2012, Leo's non-profit filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in which a 5-4 majority — including Thomas — voted to strike down a component of the Voting Rights Act (in line with the brief by Leo's organisation): https://www.businessinsider.com/ginn...e-court-2023-5


Another mystery income for Clarence Thomas comes from real estate company Ginger Limited Partnership from where he received between $270,000 to $750,000 since 2006 when it shut down: https://archive.is/X0QaQ

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In 2011, Clarence Thomas corrected 13 years of forms, on which he had wrongly claimed that his wife Ginni had no outside income, when she'd been paid more than half a million dollars by the right wing Heritage Foundation.

After US supreme court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. asked conservative donors to contribute to the Supreme Court Historical Society, one of those donors reportedly received advance information on a coming decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

The last story is more business as usual, than evident corruption. Basically the family of all (high) politicians and judges can profit from their family's connections.
Jane Roberts, the wife of US supreme court president John Roberts, was paid $10.3 million in commissions by several elite law firms from 2007 to 2014 for recruiting lawyers: https://www.businessinsider.com/jane...issions-2023-4


US Supreme Court judge Samuel Alito has also been treated to private plane flights and a luxury fishing vacation in 2008 paid for by wealthy conservatives, and organised by the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo of Opus Dei.
Alito defended not disclosing this expensive present, by saying that he didn’t need to disclose this gift…

The trip was paid for by hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer and Robin Arkley II, both were also significant donors to Leo’s groups.
In June 2005, Arkley also paid for a vacation of Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia to Kodiak Island.

In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled 7-1 in favour of Singer’s hedge fund with Alito voting for Singer.
This forced Argentina to pay Singer’s fund a cool $2.4 billion: https://www.propublica.org/article/s...-supreme-court


Greg Palast has complained about Paul Singer’s manipulation of elections, nicknaming him “the vulture”: Trump-Election-Consultant-Firm-Cambridge-Analytica-Execs-Caught-Discussing-Extortion-Fake-News

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In 2017, 9 days after he was appointed Supreme Court judge, Neil Gorsuch and his associates sold a property in Granby, Colo., from which Gorsuch made between $250,001 and $500,000.
Gorsuch "forgot" to disclose that it was sold to big law firm Greenberg Traurig (that included former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani) that has been involved in at least 22 cases before the Supreme court.

As a lawyer at a Washington law firm nearly 20 years ago, Gorsuch represented oil billionaire Philip Anschutz.
Gorsuch's 2 co-owners in the deal were major figures in the oil and gas industry, associated with Anschutz - Kevin Conwick advised Anschutz in deals to buy sports teams and Cannon Harvey who oversaw Anschutz’s venture capital investment division: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...-sale-00093579


The little known Philip Anschutz is another American right wing conservative billionaire, who has a huge influence over the US Republican party. Phil Anschutz is the friend of Tom Barrack (him again!), Donald Trump’s buddy.
Anschutz’s AEG is one of the biggest concert organiser in the world, which is ironic as Anschutz is supposedly extremely anti-LGBT.

Philip Anschutz first got his lawyer Neil Gorsuch appointed as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
More recently Anschutz pulled some strings (and “invested” some millions) to get Neil Gorsuch a seat on the US supreme court. Anschutz is a founding member of Wedgwood Circle, whose CFO is Neil Corkery (associated with Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust) that was also the CFO of the Judicial Crisis Network that would spend more than $10 million on advertising Gorsuch’s nomination to the supreme court: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1480-...court-nominee/

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Peter Thiel, who seems to be everywhere, was also involved in launching the Teneo group of Knight of Malta and Opus Dei, Leonard Leo.
Leonard Leo decides which corrupt judges are appointed by Republican politicians in high places, including president Trump and governor DeSantis. Vivek Ramaswamy became a Teneo member in 2021, and is also a member of the Leo-associated Federalist Society and Philanthropy Roundtable: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...eo-peter-thiel


In January 2012, Leonard Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to pay Virginia “Ginni” Thomas (the wife of supreme court judge Clarance Thomas) through the Polling Company.
From June 2011 to June 2012, the Polling Company paid Thomas’ Liberty Consulting $80,000 and was expected to pay another $20,000 before the end of 2012: https://www.washingtonpost.com/inves...thomas-conway/

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My wild guess is that this won’t lead anywhere...

But our wonderful media report that Washington DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is “going after” Leonard Leo (to be prosecuted by the same courts that he controls?): https://www.rawstory.com/brian-schwalb-leonard-leo/

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Leonard Leo is part of a network that was financed by Charles Koch and Robert and his daughter Rebekah Mercer.


Robert and Rebekah Mercer, some of the biggest funders of Trump's campaign, invested nearly $20 million in the Donors Trust in 2020. Donors Trust raised over $350 million in 2020 and gave out (only) $180 million in grants.
Donors Trust is not required to disclose their (dark money) donors.

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It appears that Project Veritas were set up and financed through the same dark money groups that got Donald crowned president...

In 2014-18, the "dark money" Donors Trust gave more than $8.4 million to Project Veritas, nearly one-third of its revenue.
Donors Trust is used so that donations can't be traced back to the individual donors. Donors Trust has been used by Charles Koch, Robert Mercer, and Adolph Coors, to funnel money into the right-wing propaganda network: https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/03...roject-veritas


In late 2015 or early 2016, Erik Prince (of Blackwater infamy, Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta?) arranged an intelligence training course for James O’Keefe and Project Veritas from retired military intelligence operative Euripides Rubio Jr.
O’Keefe and his bunch of liars posted about this on social media in February 2017.


Erik Prince is also close to the UAE "de facto" dictator Mohammed bin Zayed and the SCL Group's and Trump's and Bolsonaro's spin doctor Steve Bannon: https://theintercept.com/2019/05/03/...oject-veritas/


In 2018, Project Veritas received $8.6 million in donations of which James O’Keefe earned a cool $387,000.

Erik Prince is of course also the brother of Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. This makes it all the more troubling that Erik Prince helped Project Veritas to secretly tape leaders in the Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers in 2017.
Erik Prince recruited former British spy Richard Seddon to help Project Veritas to discredit this teacher's union: https://archive.is/JXUER


Ex-British spy Richard Seddon trained conservative agents at both the Prince family ranch in Wyoming and at a large house near Georgetown University.

There was also a supposed brazen attempt to take down Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster, which involved long-time Republican staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee Barbara Ledeen: https://archive.is/cdCc9