Crowd-for-Hire CEO Says ‘No Kings’ and Other Leftist Protests Are Profitable Scams
“I’ve taken a pay cut to turn this into a company that advances common-sense causes,” he said. “I could make 10 times more if I said yes to everything. But I don’t want to be part of the noise.” His firm now skips jobs that stir up division, focusing instead on events that build something real rather than tear things apart.
Look at the surge in requests for paid protesters in Washington, D.C., which jumped 400 percent since President Trump took federal control of the city’s police force. Swart even rejected a $20 million offer earlier this year to round up anti-Trump demonstrators, saying it smelled like trouble from the start. These aren’t isolated cases. Reports show far-left groups behind many of these rallies get propped up by billionaires like George Soros and dark-money networks that funnel cash into chaos. The “No Kings” events, including big turnouts in Austin and D.C. back in June, claim to fight authoritarianism but end up as stages for the same recycled slogans.
Foreign hands might be stirring the pot too, with intelligence reports warning that Russia, China, and Iran push disinformation to spark unrest around key moments. Swart warns of networks mimicking real advocacy groups to hide their tracks.
“I know how you’d structure a web of advocacy groups legally — and how someone could mirror that illegally,” he said. “I want to help the government figure out who’s funding the division and shut it down.”
