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Antifa Bombshell: Trump Exposes Swiss Billionaire Environmentalist as Antifa’s Shadow Funder
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In an October 8th White House roundtable that crackled with revelations, President Donald J. Trump exposed Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss as what he called “the rotten heart” of America’s street chaos.
Wyss is best known for his environmental activism but has reportedly bankrolled Antifa’s violent activities since 2017. Flanked by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and journalists who have been victims of Antifa violence, Trump declared the disclosure a “game-changer” in his crusade against domestic terrorism. “This isn’t some ragtag mob—it’s a well-oiled machine fueled by foreign cash,” Trump said.
The session, broadcast live, followed Trump’s September executive order designating Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,” a move he vowed would “rip the mask off” its enablers. Witnesses, including Portland-based reporter Andy Ngo—whose 2019 assault by masked Antifa thugs left him hospitalized—recounted brutal ambushes, from firebombs in Seattle to flag-burnings in Chicago. But the bombshell dropped when Trump, waving a sheaf of declassified documents, named Wyss as the “primary puppeteer. “At 89, Wyss—net worth $5.1 billion, per Forbes—looms as a ghost in progressive shadows.
Born in Bern, Switzerland, he built his empire through Synthes, a medical device giant sold to Johnson & Johnson in 2012 for $19.7 billion. Yet beneath the philanthropy lies a web of “dark money,” critics say, funneled through the Wyss Foundation and Berger Action Fund. Since 2016, these vehicles have pumped $339 million into left-leaning nonprofits, per Associated Press analysis, with $245 million alone to Arabella Advisors’ behemoths: the Sixteen Thirty Fund and New Venture Fund.
Trump’s intel, sourced from FBI probes and FEC complaints, traces Wyss’s cash to Antifa’s “protest industrial network.” The Hub Project, a New Venture Fund arm, has orchestrated media blitzes and rapid-response teams since 2017, coinciding with the Women’s March and escalating riots. By 2020, amid George Floyd protests that torched Minneapolis blocks, Sixteen Thirty Fund—Wyss’s top beneficiary—disbursed $390 million, including $31 million from Berger in 2020 alone, per Politico. These funds, Trump alleged, subsidized Antifa “affinity groups”—clandestine cells of 3-8 militants armed with tasers, bats, and Molotovs. “Follow the money: Wyss’s dollars buy the bricks, the bikes, the bail,” Trump said, citing Indivisible Project grants ($1.5 million in 2023) that trained “disruptors” for Portland’s 100+ nights of unrest.
A 2021 Americans for Public Trust (APT) FEC complaint accuses Wyss of skirting foreign-donor bans, routing cash to groups like Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), which Sen. Josh Hawley linked to 2021 “unlawful” riots. Taxpayer grants amplified it: CHIRLA pocketed $50 million federally since 2021, partnering with Soros- and Wyss-backed outfits. Since 2017, this network has ignited uprisings from Charlottesville clashes to Kenosha infernos, with Antifa’s decentralized fury—per Reuters—shielded by Wyss’s opaque nonprofits.
Wyss’s tentacles extend to eco-extremism, fueling Trump’s charge of a “radical green machine.” The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) has benefited greatly from Wyss’ millions in donations. SUWA’s environmental activism extends into local politics by funding campaigns throughout Utah. It’s spin-off organization, Rural Utah Project activities are focused on overturning Utah’s rural counties by electing Democrats to office.
A member of the board of SUWA , Wyss has poured millions into its efforts to lock up 9 million acres of Utah’s public lands as “wilderness.” Since the late 1970s SUWA has waged war on Utah’s rural counties by opposing the development of natural resources, litigating multiple uses from livestock grazing to mining and motorized outdoor recreation. His $125 million Harvard gift birthed the Wyss Institute, but his eco-war chest—$807 million since 2016—arms SUWA and its allies including The Wilderness Society and Grand Canyon Trust. These groups, Trump quipped, “chain off roads while Antifa chains off cops.”
Wyss’s history includes the dark episode with his medical product company, Synthes. In 2011, the firm pleaded guilty to felony off-label promotion of Norian SRS bone cement, a vertebral product untested for high-risk spine surgeries. Despite internal warnings—Wyss pushed the flawed product which, according to the FDA, caused 13 patient deaths from pulmonary embolisms, tissue necrosis and infections.
Fines levied against Synthes topped $25 million and some executives, including Wyss loyalists, drew prison stints. “He gambled lives for profits,” Trump fumed, echoing a 2021 APT report branding Wyss’s leadership “the 800-pound gorilla” of corporate malfeasance.
Recent scandals compound the toll: A May 2025 lawsuit accuses Wyss of serial sexual harassment at his Halter Ranch winery, targeting a 30-something employee 60 years his junior with unwanted advances and retaliation, per National Review. The suit details a “hostile” workplace, forcing medical leave for anxiety. Wyss denies it, but whispers of leverage—threatening rehab funds for a lover’s daughter—haunt his Wyoming ranch.
As the roundtable adjourned, Trump pledged RICO probes: “No more Swiss bank secrecy for American blood.” Wyss’s foundation has claimed that its activities do not constitute election meddling, but Caitlin Sutherland of Americans for Public Trust says, “It’s foreign meddling with a green bow.”
