{"id":1838742,"date":"2023-02-07T15:35:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1838742"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:35:55","slug":"koch-funded-scholar-accuses-koch-network-of-blatant-political-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/koch-funded-scholar-accuses-koch-network-of-blatant-political-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Koch-funded Scholar Accuses Koch Network of \u2018Blatant Political Corruption\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkoch-funded-scholar-accuses-koch-network-of-blatant-political-corruption%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1838742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s (I., Vt.) former foreign policy adviser, who now occupies a think tank perch funded by the Charles Koch Institute, accused the Republican megadonor Charles Koch of &#8220;blatant political corruption&#8221; For supporting Republican politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The comments from Matt Duss, a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Endowment\u2019s American Statecraft program\u2014which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/who-we-are\/crisis-group-updates\/charles-koch-institute-announces-major-gift-international-crisis-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">underwritten<\/a> by a $4.5 million grant from the Charles Koch Institute\u2014came in response to\u00a0a CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/05\/politics\/koch-network-republican-primary-2024\/index.html?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twCNNp&#038;utm_content=2023-02-05T12%3A34%3A31&#038;utm_term=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report<\/a> about the Koch donor network\u2019s spending plans for the 2024 Republican presidential race.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today in the oligarchy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5AH6uT8ozh\">https:\/\/t.co\/5AH6uT8ozh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Duss (@mattduss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattduss\/status\/1622218790195830787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today in oligarchy,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattduss\/status\/1622218790195830787?s=20&#038;t=4YcwLudEguVE6AO7p9T3bw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submitted<\/a> Duss, linking to the CNN story that reported Koch\u2019s funding network was &#8220;preparing to throw its money and weight behind a single Republican candidate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s wild how we talk about blatant political corruption like it\u2019s the weather,&#8221; Duss continued to link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/05\/us\/politics\/koch-donors-trump-campaign-finance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&#038;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another<\/a> article about Koch\u2019s Republican primary spending in the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe we should have a system where a handful of ultra wealthy people don\u2019t get to determine who becomes president,&#8221; He added. &#8220;We could call it \u2018democracy.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Duss declined to comment on whether Duss&#8217;s work in the Koch network&#8217;s decision not to fund think-tanks like his is a sign of oligarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Duss and his former boss Sanders have been vocal critics of Koch\u2019s political spending for years, accusing him of trying to &#8220;buy elections&#8221; Install it &#8220;oligarchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/sanders-foreign-policy-adviser-departs-to-join-koch-funded-think-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> on Duss\u2019s role at the Koch-backed think tank last year, Duss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/07\/bernie-sanders-longtime-foreign-policy-adviser-washington-world\/\">Telled<\/a> The <em>Washington Post<\/em> Charles Koch shared a similar view of foreign policy with him &#8220;around the question of restraint. There&#8217;s a space within which progressives and conservatives tend to agree that the interventionist foreign policy of the last several decades has not produced good outcomes for the American people or for the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Charles Koch Institute announced a $4.5 million grant to\u00a0the Carnegie Endowment in 2021 to support work &#8220;aimed at better shaping and defining a more restraint-oriented foreign policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Through its think tank funding, the Koch network has promoted an isolationist foreign strategy, including support for the American Statecraft Program (an anti-war policy shop) and the Quincy Institute (a think tank funding). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/quincy-trita-parsi-soros-koch-armin-rosen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Financing<\/a> George Soros, left-wing philanthropist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s (I., Vt.) former foreign policy adviser accused Republican megadonor Charles Koch of &#8220;blatant political corruption&#8221; for funding Republican politicians, despite working for a think tank program that is also bankrolled by Koch.<br \/>\nThe post Koch-funded Scholar Accuses Koch Network of \u2018Blatant Political Corruption\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1838745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[16162,4640,8773,9051,17214,5051,3753,11641],"class_list":["post-1838742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-blatant","tag-accuses","tag-corruption","tag-koch-funded","tag-koch","tag-network","tag-political","tag-scholar"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}