Big tech multi-billionaire Bill Gates has donated a whopping $50 million to an organization working to elect Kamala Harris as president. Does this mean dominant media outlets (many of whom have received direct financial support from Gates over the years) can officially stop painting this agenda-driven actor on the world stage as the Dr. Albert Schweitzer of our day?
Gates, whose globalist affinities are no secret, has dropped the money bomb into the coffers of Future Forward, a Democrat-aligned super PAC, to help Harris defeat populist Republican nominee Donald Trump, The New York Times reported October 22. Gates apparently did not want the donation revealed to the general public. He was eager to tell his moneyed colleagues, however.
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Gates “has talked about his pro-Harris donation with his peers, including Mike Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and a major supporter of Future Forward who has considered a similarly sized gift,” The NYT related, citing “two sources” who had been “briefed on the matter.”
Yet he still could not resist donning his benevolence cape once again in a statement responding to the report.
“I support candidates who demonstrate a clear commitment to improving health care, reducing poverty and fighting climate change in the US and around the world,” he told The NYT. “I have a long history of working with leaders across the political spectrum, but this election is different, with unprecedented significance for Americans and the most vulnerable people around the world.”
New Gates Dance: Ready to Do the Soros?
While his fellow super-wealthy globalist George Soros has gleefully poured more than $20 billion into the causes of the activist political left since 2000, Gates has preferred to take an above-the-fray PR approach to his donor portfolio. As his statement to The NYT reveals, he doesn’t see himself as a partisan activist. He “supports science,” not the progressive establishment politicians who enacted aggressive social curbs against citizens during the coronavirus pandemic. He wants to “save the world” with his vaccine, climate change, and fake meat ventures. If doing so happens to mean vastly expanding the power of international governing bodies over once-sovereign nations along the way, well, he’s a humanist, not a political scientist.
But by throwing $50 million at Future Forward and then bragging about it, Gates is perhaps acknowledging that the great humanitarian pose is all played out.
“A large chunk of [Future Forward’s] funding comes from sources that don’t disclose their donors,” the left-shaded Center for Responsive Politics reported in 2020. “The hybrid PAC brought in a whopping $29 million from its affiliated 501(c)(4) nonprofit, Future Forward USA Action, in the first two week of October, according to FEC filings…. That’s in addition to $3.9 million from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, another dark money group that has injected tens of millions into Democratic super PACs.”
The month before an election seems to be an especially lucrative time for Future Forward, doesn’t it? There’s plenty more sources of revenue as well.
“In 2020, FF PAC received several contributions from high-profile Democratic donors include Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz ($91,780,000), former Google CEO Eric Schmidt ($775,000), [and] liberal mega-donor Kathryn Murdoch ($540,000),” watchdog website Influence Watch writes. Convicted cryptocurrency exchange criminal Samuel Bankman-Fried gave the organization $10 million and Netflix founder Reed Hastings’ wife Patty Quillin shelled out $2 million.
This is the political orbit Gates gushed about in his conversation with Bloomberg. It’s hardly the stuff of Mother Teresa, or even Bono. Which again highlights the larger point.
A man who has had increasing difficulty in recent years fulfilling a keen desire to present clean hands to the general public while aggressively pursuing his globalist agenda may be discovering he doesn’t mind having some dirt beneath his fingernails after all.
If so, stridently leftist political organizations throughout the world may have another ATM to tap into from here on out. The money comes with a catch, of course, but that’s never been a concern before.
