Proud Boys receive donations from chinese
A member of the Proud Boys guards the front stage as another member of the proud boys gives a speech during a rally at Delta Park in Portland, Oregon, on June 26, 2020. Stanton Sharpe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Chinese Americans and ex-pats from China donated more than $80,000 to the Proud Boys, a report says.The fundraiser was set up on the Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo on December 17, five days after the incident.
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The crowdfunding effort raised a total of $106,107 — 80% of which came from American Asians and the broader Chinese diaspora, according to USA Today, which obtained data from the whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets.
The investigation tracked some donations to addresses in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.