The richer the American community, the more likely residents were to make donations, and most of the contributions came from those communities. Registered Republicans made up a solid majority, according to a review of more than 55,000 US-based donations via the Christian fundraising website GiveSendGo. The site, which has experienced several security breaches over the past year, emerged as a fundraising magnet earlier this month after popular online funding platform GoFundMe stopped accepting donations to the convoy. GoFundMe quit, saying the occupation, born of resistance to vaccine requirements for trucks, violated their policy.
Site co-founder Jacob Wells told The Post that hackers began leaking information about donors in a controversial protest shortly after the Super Bowl kicked off Sunday night. Someone pretending to be a donor was able to make changes that would have given the attacker administrative powers. He claimed that the hacker did not disclose the identity of the donors in any way, as users were not required to provide a real name or email address to send money. But Wales said he requires the donor to provide a zip code to protect against fraud when processing credit card transactions, thus revealing where nearly all contributors in the United States are located.
“It was a campaign funded almost entirely by Canadians and Americans,” Wales said. He said. “And it’s not over. We are using all legal means to continue receiving donor money ”.
At the request of the Canadian authorities, Ontario’s Higher Court of Justice issued an order on Thursday suspending the distribution of funds from GiveSendGo’s fundraiser under the names “Freedom Column 2022” and “Adopt-a-Trucker”.
The corrupt data from the Freedom Convoy campaign was shared Monday by Distributed Denial of Secrets, the publisher of the non-commercial leak that provided the data to reporters and researchers. The group released a second dataset on Tuesday showing contributions to the Accept Trucker campaign.
The two data sets combined included 100,316 donations for a total of $ 8,961,973. About 52 percent of the money came from Canadians. About 42 percent – and the largest contributors – were from the United States.
“I’m not at all surprised by this information leak,” Beverly Hills real estate agent Elena Danielson wrote in a letter to The Post when asked about the leaked data showing the $ 100 donation linked to her name and email address. . Business address.
Danielson, 57, said in a series of emails that he grew up in the Soviet Union, immigrated to Canada in the 1990s, and then moved to the United States, where he is married and has grandchildren. Canadian-American Danielson said he was vaccinated when the vaccine became a condition for international travel, but now he is ashamed of what he sees as brutal orders in a northern country.
“I support the vaccine. I am glad that everyone who needs or wants it gets vaccinated. But now we all know that the vaccine situation does not prevent the vaccine from being re-accepted or the spread of Covid.” This is the second time this has happened to my husband after he got the amp, ”Danielson said. [Canadian Prime Minister] “Justin Trudeau was a true leader, admitting blame and removing unnecessary authority.”
Similarly, Eastern Oregon’s Nancy Vasa donated a column of freedom by sending $ 2,000 via GiveSendGo on February 2. Vasa, 62, wrote that he saw the threat to freedom closer to home: “God bless our trucks for saving our freedom!”
Asked about the donation and accompanying message, Vasa wrote in an email to The Post: “I believe we have fallen off a cliff into communism and that rising people may be our last chance for Americans to fight. for our freedoms “. He is a Republican, he added that he believed that “the instructions for the vaccine were part of a mass murder by a large pharmacy.”
Not all contributions from the United States were made by Republicans, according to leaked data compiled by The Post on public records and voter registration data.
About a third of the donations came from postal codes, where Democrats outnumber Republicans, according to voter registration records. In Brooklyn, The Post sent letters to the retired actor and pastor, who are registered Democrats and whose names and email addresses appear to be linked to donations to the convoy’s campaign. An active member of the Green Party also appeared there Give me 50 dollars. None of the three people returned the email asking for comment.
A $ 50 donation email was used for the Freedom Convoy campaign. Delaware Transit Corp. associated email address. In a February 9 payment on behalf of Richard Paprka, Director of Operations for the State Transit Agency, “God bless you all. You need your soul in the United States!”
A spokesperson for the Delaware Transit Corporation and Governor John Carney (D) declined to comment when contacted by The Post. Paprcka did not respond to a request for comment in the listed email.
In the south, contributions are often clustered in the coastal communities of, for example, Fernadina Beach and Amelia Island. A $ 350 donation has emerged with the name of George Ling and the email address of a former attorney general of the Department of Commerce under President Donald Trump. He did not reply to the email and the phone number that was provided to him was not answered.
Within a few miles, another 28 people donated, most of them $ 100 or more. Dozens of contributions also came from Green Cove Springs, a community south of Jacksonville. Overall, Florida had the third highest contribution and total donation.
Rebecca Walser confirmed on February 6 that she had donated $ 5,000 to the fundraising campaign using the Tampi Bay zip code for the Freedom Convoy. “I’m a compulsive anti-libertarian,” Walser told The Post in a short email.
The two largest pockets of donors nationwide are concentrated north on Marietta and Roswell, Gala. In the west, Leander, Texas, a suburb north of Austin, had the largest total donation, with 38 individual contributors. Many have cited biblical passages in the records describing their donations. There, the shop owner declined to comment on the $ 100 donation when The Post reached out.
Only a few attendees donated more than $ 10,000 each.
Most were Canadians and defended their decision in letters to The Post, describing the protests as the history of Canada and fundamental rights to free speech.
The main contributor to the column from the United States appears to be Thomas Ziebel, a software developer in Silicon Valley in the 1990s. The $ 90,000 donation was made using Sibel’s name and an email address associated with her past business, Siebel Systems.
The donation was not marked as anonymous and was announced by truck supporters last week. Zibel did not return the comment request email or the email and message left to the assistant.
Lenny Broner, Miriam Berger and Amanda Colette contributed to this report.
Source: Washington Post
John Cameron is a journalist at The Nation View specializing in world news and current events, particularly in international politics and diplomacy. With expertise in international relations, he covers a range of topics including conflicts, politics and economic trends.
