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“Just … follow the money.” – Deep Throat, All the President’s Men

That use to be the watchword for investigative journalists. If you want to uncover corruption, find out where the money is coming from and where it is going. At least it use to be.

Today? Not so much. At least not when doing so could implicate Democrats or upset the left’s agenda.

Case in point is the Los Angeles riots. There’s plenty of reason to believe that the riots are being organized and financed by unsavory characters whose mission is to foment division and violence in the United States.

Some of the money is likely coming out of taxpayer pockets.

Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, is said to be behind some of the protests, according to the New York Post. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles staged a rally last Thursday to protest ICE arrests (but claims it has had nothing to do with the riots). That group got more than $46 million in federal grants in 2022 and 2023, as well as millions from California taxpayers.

“Another group involved in organizing the LA riots is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a radical leftist American union with extensive overseas ties,” says Heritage senior fellow Mike Gonzalez. “Then there are the ‘charities’ helping the rioters, such as Mutual Aid Los Angeles Network, Operation Healthy Hearts, LA Poverty Department, and Mutual Aid/Social Therapy.”

One scene captured by Fox News showed rioters unloading a truckload of Bionic Shield face masks that go for about $60 each. The FBI later arrested the guy driving the pickup truck, who faces charges of conspiracy to commit civil disorder.

But who paid for those masks? Who is buying “commercial grade fireworks … with shrapnel being put in,” that Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell says are fired at officers?

The FBI is investigating the financial ties behind the riots. The mainstream press could care less.

So, when not ignoring the violence or the money connections altogether, the mainstream press dismisses any suggestion that there’s a money trail to be traced as conspiracy nonsense.

And we are treated to headlines such as:

“Gabbard, Trump spread conspiracy theory about paid demonstrators”

And:

“Fake videos and conspiracies fuel falsehoods about Los Angeles protests”

These are the same top-tier “journalists” who told the public that Joe Biden was sharp as a tack and that Russia was pulling the strings of the first Trump administration.

They can no longer be trusted to tell anything like the truth. Which is a shame, because it just makes getting the truth about important events like the Los Angeles riots all the harder.