U.S. ELECTIONS: DUH-MOCK-RACY. BIG MONEY RULES

Did you ever hear of a Hansjörg Wyss? 

Of course not! Especially the vast majority of Americans who know nothing about everything important but are glued to every fact and figures of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard courtroom drama. 

This Wyss guy is a big foreign money man that helps rig U.S. elections.

The Swiss billionaire has injected more than $253 million to Democratic candidates and progressive causes through nonprofits since 2016, raising new questions about foreign influence in U.S. elections. 

The New York Post reported that Wyss helped fund efforts to impeach former President Donald Trump and also bankrolled voter registration efforts aimed at Republican candidates. 

“The foreign dark money revolving door is at it again, this time with their eyes set on the midterms,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told the paper. “Wyss has already funneled hundreds of millions through his nonprofits to liberal groups that influence our elections, and now those very same groups are poised to engage in every policy and political fight all the way until November.”

Wyss is something of a mysterious figure. He once told a German magazine that he spent most of his life living as a “phantom” in Wyoming. 

He made his fortune after selling his medical device company Synthes to Johnson & Johnson in 2012. He is worth about $5 billion. 

The 86-year-old told Blick, the Swiss newspaper, that he hopes to be part of the consortium to buy Chelsea from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

Sutherland has urged the Federal Election Commission to investigate a complaint against the Swiss billionaire. 

The Hill reported that the May 2021 complaint said Wyss is not a U.S. citizen, “which would make donating to political candidates or political action committees illegal.”

Sutherland told The Hill that there has been an “indirect pattern of passing money from one non-profit to another.”

“Until the FEC takes action and investigates that daisy chain of pattern between the money flow, we will not know the full extent of his involvement in our U.S. politics,” she told the news website.

Wyss had given over $135 million to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, which Sutherland said gave $60 million to super PACs that backed President Biden. 

“A foreign national can absolutely not contribute to a super PAC,” she said. “A foreign national … is contributing to a group and that group has then financed super PACs that support Joe Biden, U.S. Senate candidates, ballot initiatives, everything across the board.”

Two Face

And this Wyss guy is not alone in shoving money into the U.S. election fiasco. While the American media boosted the false claim that Russia helped get Donald Trump elected, it’s perfectly fine for Israel to help rig the U.S. elections. (See “AIPAC ATTACKS U.S. CANDIDATES CRITICAL OF ISRAEL.”)

TRENDPOST: The “Dark Money” from non-profit organizations that are known to traditionally align with Democrats, spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020 on their favorite candidates, compared to the $900 million that groups seen as favorable to Republicans send to their hopefuls. (See “U.S. ELECTIONS: MONEY MOB IN FULL CONTROL.”) 

A dark money group aligned with Sen. Chuck Schumer pulled in $92 million from anonymous donors to elect Democrats, according to a report by Fox News. 

The report said that while the group was pulling in cash—from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020—Schumer and other Democrats were calling out Republicans for their use of dark money.

“Majority Forward is kind of a dark money empire that the Democrat party really doesn’t want to talk about, especially Chuck Schumer,” Parker Thayer, an investigator at the Capital Research Center, told the network.

TREND FORECAST: As we reported on 20 April 2021, the “WALL ST. GANG SPENT $3B ON 2020 ELECTION CAMPAIGNS.” In this case, Republicans got 47 percent of the dough and Democrats, which play the “liberal” line, pulled in 53 percent of the money. 

Plain and simple, without big money behind a candidate running for office, the chances of beating one of the two party mobsters is slim and none. (See “POLS EMBRACE CRYPTO CAMPAIGN FUNDING” and “HOW BIG TECH MAINTAINS ITS MONOPOLY.”)