{"id":52362,"date":"2022-08-26T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/?p=52362"},"modified":"2022-08-26T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:34:42","slug":"blm-activist-shaun-king-drains-soros-funded-pac-to-defend-against-libel-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nlpc.org\/featured-news\/blm-activist-shaun-king-drains-soros-funded-pac-to-defend-against-libel-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Activist Shaun King Drains Soros-Funded PACs to Defend Against Libel Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New York Post<\/em> article published today details<\/a> how controversial activist and internet provocateur Shaun King has spent more than $500,000 out of two political action committees he controls to defend against a libel suit filed by Carlos Vega, who was defeated by George Soros-backed Larry Krasner in the 2021 Philadelphia District Attorney election.<\/p>\n

The article comes on the heels of an August 1 report<\/a> in the Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that King used $40,000 in PAC funds to buy a thoroughbred dog that he claimed was needed for security.<\/p>\n

The two PACs have received millions from billionaires like Soros and Dustin Moskovitz, who cofounded Facebook,\u00a0<\/strong>and his wife Cari Tuna. From the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cShaun King styles himself as the online version of a street activist,\u201d said Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative Virginia-based government watchdog group. \u201cBut with his billionaire backers, just whose interests are being served?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last year, the Post<\/em> reported<\/a> that King moved his family to a beautiful lakefront home in New Jersey, emulating Black Lives Matter founder Patrice Cullors, who was exposed to have purchased four homes. A company owned by Cullors and her \u201cwife\u201d reportedly received $46,330 from one of King\u2019s PACs from 2017 to 2020.<\/p>\n

It is astonishing that anyone would give King a penny. He has faced repeated allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds from within and outside the BLM movement.<\/p>\n

In 2017, King compared American founders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Adolf Hitler. During the 2020 riots, King tweeted that all images depicting Jesus<\/a>\u00a0as a \u201cwhite\u00a0European<\/a>\u201d to be torn down because they are a form of \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strangest complaint about King is that he may be white. In 2015, his birth certificate listing two Caucasians as his parents was reviewed by media outlets.<\/p>\n

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