{"id":2000911,"date":"2023-08-15T05:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-far-left-socialist-is-a-top-donor-to-rfk-jr\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T05:13:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T09:13:07","slug":"this-far-left-socialist-is-a-top-donor-to-rfk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-far-left-socialist-is-a-top-donor-to-rfk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"This Socialist is a Major Donor to RFK Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fthis-far-left-socialist-is-a-top-donor-to-rfk-jr%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=2000911&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--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Abby Rockefeller gave $100,000 to\u2062 Democratic presidential candidate Kennedy\u2019s \u2064super PAC<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h3>2024 Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy\u2062 Jr. announces\u2063 his candidacy \/ Getty Images<\/h3>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s top donors is a longtime funder of far-left socialist\u2064 groups \u200dand Communist Party sympathizers, according to records.<\/p>\n<p>Abby Rockefeller, the\u200b great-granddaughter of\u2064 John D. Rockefeller, gave \u200d$100,000 to Democratic presidential candidate Kennedy&#8217;s super PAC, American\u200c Values 2024, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-slammed-for-smearing-ron-desantis-on-60-minutes-one-of-the-more-blatant-political-hatchet-jobs\/\" title=\"CBS Slammed For Smearing Ron DeSantis On \u201860 Minutes\u2019: \u2018One Of The More Blatant Political Hatchet Jobs\u2019\">campaign finance records<\/a>. For decades, Rockefeller \u200dand\u200d her husband, writer Lee Halprin, have \u2063also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-far-left-socialist-is-a-top-donor-to-rfk-jr\/\" title=\"This Socialist is a Major Donor to RFK Jr.\">helped bankroll socialist \u200dnewspapers<\/a>, conferences, and the\u200d Democratic\u2064 Socialists of America political party.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as many Republicans have embraced Kennedy and his gadfly primary campaign against President Joe Biden. Over half of Kennedy\u2019s \u200bsuper PAC \u200cdonations came from traditionally Republican donors, \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/31\/rfk-jr-aligned-super-pac-raked-in-6-million-in-july-00109010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to \u200d <em>Politico<\/em>, \u2063and\u200c he has a \u200dhigh\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/rfk-jr-democrat-republican-primary-favorability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">favorability<\/a> rating among Republican voters. Republican lawmakers have expressed support for him as well.\u2063 House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan (R., \u2062Ohio) invited the candidate to testify before the committee last month, while \u2063Republican \u2062presidential hopeful Ron\u200d DeSantis said that, \u200bif elected, he would\u200c consider \u200bappointing Kennedy to a \u2064position at the FDA\u2064 or another federal health \u2063agency.<\/p>\n<p>While Rockefeller is a major supporter of some mainstream Democratic\u2062 groups\u2014including the \u200bDemocratic National Committee\u2014she and her husband also contribute regularly to far<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-dem-parrots-radical-anti-war-coalition-working-to-water-down-china-bill\/\" title=\"House Dem Parrots Radical Anti-War Coalition Working To Water Down China Bill\">-left fringe organizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was one of the \u200ctop donors to the Democratic Socialists of America\u2019s \u2064&#8221;Anti-capitalist Capital Campaign&#8221; in\u200c 2016, according to\u2062 the group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/democraticleft.dsausa.org\/files\/sites\/6\/2018\/12\/DL_2016_V044_03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletter<\/a>. Between 2015 \u2064and \u200b2020, Rockefeller \u200dand\u200d Halprin donated\u2064 a combined $38,000 to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which \u200bbacks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boldprogressives.org\/candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many members<\/a> of \u200bthe DSA, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2062(D., \u2062N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), according to \u200dFederal Election Commission records.<\/p>\n<p>Rockefeller is also a financial supporter of socialist media outlets and conferences. She <a href=\"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/pdf\/In-These-Times-2022-Impact-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave<\/a> \u2062at least $10,000\u200c to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/author-of-how-to-be-a-socialist-allegedly-fires-magazine-staff-for-asserting-that-workers-should-be-in-charge\/\" title=\"Author Of \u2018How To Be A Socialist\u2019 Allegedly Fires Magazine Staff For Asserting That Workers Should Be In Charge\">socialist magazine<\/a> <em>In These Times<\/em> in 2022, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-watchdog-calls-for-probe-into-house-democrat-kim-schriers-stock-transactions\/\" title=\"Ethics Watchdog Calls for Probe into House Democrat Kim Schrier's Stock Transactions\">annual financial report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was listed as a donor \u200cto the 2015 Left Forum in\u200b the &#8220;Thanks to our comrades&#8221;\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptome.org\/2015\/05\/left-forum-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">section<\/a> of \u2063its conference schedule.\u2063 The socialist forum, hosted at John Jay College, was titled &#8220;No Justice No Peace: Confronting the Crises of Capitalism and \u200bDemocracy&#8221; and included\u200b panel\u200d discussions on &#8220;Protest, Power and the Socialist Vision,&#8221; &#8220;Art Against Capitalism,&#8221; and &#8220;How To Teach Marxism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rockefeller was also\u2062 listed as \u200ba regular donor between\u200b 2010 and \u200d2019 to the \u2062Veterans of the Abraham \u200bLincoln Brigade Archives project, a group established by \u200dU.S. \u2062fighters in the Spanish Civil War. The brigade of Americans \u2063was organized in the \u20641930s by Communist International\u2014the\u200c world communist organization \u200bunder the control of Joseph \u2063Stalin\u2014and sent to Spain to fight for\u2063 the \u2062Soviet-backed forces. After returning to the\u2063 United States, the fighters &#8220;formed\u2063 the Veterans\u2063 of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and have, in \u200da militant manner, consistently \u2064endeavored to \u2062promote Communism\u200c in this country,&#8221; according to a post-war FBI \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governmentattic.org\/docs\/FBI_Veterans_of_Abraham_Lincoln_Brigade_1937-1948.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rockefeller has a long history of far-left \u200bactivism. In 1968, she founded the radical feminist group Cell 16, a women\u2019s separatist organization \u2063associated with the Marxist revolutionary movement.<\/p>\n<p>Rockefeller and\u200c Kennedy did not\u2062 respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abby Rockefeller, descendant of John D., donated $100,000 to Kennedy&#8217;s 2024 Democratic super PAC. However, records reveal she has been a consistent supporter of far-left socialist organizations and Communist Party sympathizers, raising concerns about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s top donor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2000912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-2000911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2000911","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=2000911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}