He’s the foreign billionaire you’ve never heard of and he’s using his vast fortune to help sway US elections.
A liberal Swiss billionaire known for meddling in U.S. elections has funneled millions of dollars to help Democrats funds their Election campaigns.
Hansjorg Wyss, who has an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion and lives in Wyoming, has become a major donor to liberal groups in recent years but remains tight-lipped about his citizenship status.
Wyss, the richest man in Switzerland, donated $135 million in STF dark money donations to the Democrat Party.
Foreign nationals who don’t hold US green cards are barred from making direct donations to candidates for office or political action committees, but they are allowed to contribute to advocacy groups that seek to sway public policy.
In the recently filed lawsuit, watchdog group Americans for Public Trust challenged that distinction, accusing the Federal Election Commission of acting too slowly on a complaint it filed against Wyss in May 2021.
Back in December 2021, three billionaires gave millions and millions to influence the 2020 Election. They donated nearly $200 million to the Democrats to help them stop President Trump. George Soros, Pierre Omidyar, and Hansjörg Wyss donated millions to Democrats.
Here’s a report from Daniel Greenfield and FrontPage Magazine:
Politico recently reported that the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the leading dark money machine of the Left, had pumped $410 million into Dem 2020 efforts to defeat Trump and Republicans.
The Sixteen Thirty Fund had raised a record $390 million that year and half the money came from just 4 donors. While the names of the donors are secret, the article did note the names of three major known STF backers: Pierre Omidyar, Hansjörg Wyss, and George Soros.
The New York Times reported that they did not know the answer. Neither did beltway periodicals like Politico or the Hill. According to a biography of Wyss, written by his sister Hedi Wyss and reported first by RealClearPolitics, the answer is no.
More details of Wyss citizenship and the mysterious black money donor to the Democrat Party via Real Clear Politics:
Wyss made headlines recently by leading a consortium of investors attempting to buy the Chelsea Football Club from sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. He also tried unsuccessfully before that to purchase a national newspaper chain owned by Tribune Publishing. One area where the wealthy Swiss businessman has met with unquestionable success after retiring from the pharmaceutical industry: U.S. politics. He has deep pockets and deep ties in Washington as a result – connections that he tells reporters overseas extend all the way to the White House.
And yet, despite the hundreds of millions Wyss has spent bankrolling progressive advocacy groups and despite the undeniable heft Wyss throws around in the Democratic Party and its causes, one question has remained unanswered in the American press. Despite being a power player in U.S. politics for decades, it was unclear whether or not Wyss is a permanent resident in the United States or an American citizen.
Wyss had ‘quietly become one of the most important donors to left-leaning advocacy groups and an increasingly influential force among Democrats.’
If it’s in favor of Democrats, mainstream media and the left-leaning regime will continue to remain silent. In fact, they might even tag it as fake news…who knows? After all, it’s against their narrative.
Sources: Thegatewaypundit, FrontPage Magazine, Real Clear Politics