FACTS: The trouble with cherry-picking

Bill Elmers based his letter concerning the No Kings protest on a Fox Digital report by Asra Nomani. He quoted her claim that 500 groups donating to Indivisible have a combined revenue of $3 billion (averaging $6 million each), implying that income was nefarious. 

By contrast, three ultra‑rich donors — Elon Musk, Mellon, and Adelman — with a combined net worth of $901 billion, donated $532 million to Trump’s campaign. Which figures are the most troubling? 

Nomani did not note that roughly 10,000 individual donors to Indivisible are grassroots Americans, nor did she disclose the total amount donated by the 500 groups. We emailed Nomani with questions but have not received a reply.

George Soros donated $7.6 million to Indivisible through the Open Society Foundations in 2017. Even IF that amount had been used to pay protesters, the math doesn’t support the claim: spread across 20 million participants (total for three protests), the pay per person equals $0.38. Protestors were volunteers.

The report’s allegations of donations linked to self-identified communist, Neville Roy Singham, omitted context. His contributions in 2023 supported organizations in large cities (People’s Forum NY, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Code Pink). They made donations routed through unidentified shell companies, making tracing difficult. Indivisible National was/is unaware of unidentified companies alleged donations.

All supplies used by our local Indivisible chapter for protest events (safety vests, water, whistles, chalk, first‑aid kits) were paid for by local organizers. We thank our volunteers for an exceptional event.

LIZ ANDERSON, JULIE CELEBERTI, TRISHA MILES, BARBARA OSTIPWKO, KRISTY PARETTA and KAREN SIMES
Coeur d’Alene / North Idaho Indivisible Chapter Leaders