{"id":27290,"date":"2025-07-17T06:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=27290"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:27:35","slug":"surreal-watch-rent-a-protester-ceo-rejects-20-million-contract-to-stage-anti-trump-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=27290","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>SURREAL! Watch: Rent-A-Protester CEO Rejects $20 Million Contract To Stage Anti-Trump Protests<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/watch-rent-protester-ceo-rejects-20-million-contract-stage-anti-trump-protests\">READ HERE:<\/a> <\/strong>Free speech in the U.S. was never intended to serve as a perpetual vehicle for permanent protest. However, over the past decade, it has morphed into a billion-dollar industry fueled by dark-money-funded, far-left-aligned NGOs\u2014many backed by opaque funding sources, including leftist billionaires and entities based in countries classified as foreign adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Yet here we are. Far-left NGO networks, some aligned with Marxist ideology, attempted coordinated acts of civil unrest in Los Angeles last month, including arson and insurrectionist behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, operatives tied to far-left color revolution operations, including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/dark-money-network-funneled-millions-no-kings-nationwide-color-revolution-operation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indivisible movement<\/a>, have targeted Elon Musk and President Trump. In fact, Indivisible has maintained a continuous, nationwide protest pressure campaign against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, Indivisible foot soldiers were spotted outside Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s facilities in Pittsburgh, where the President Trump attended an Energy and Innovation Summit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1752747950460867916=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">NOW \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarnegieMellon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CarnegieMellon<\/a>\u00a0students and community activists are marching from Schenley Plaza to Carnegie Mellon\u2019s campus while Sen. McCormick &amp; President Trump meet with leaders, CEOs inside the PA Energy &amp; Innovation Summit.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTAE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WTAE<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BwZ0wJV9q8\">pic.twitter.com\/BwZ0wJV9q8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kalea Gunderson &#8211; WTAE (@KaleaGunderson)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KaleaGunderson\/status\/1945180179065675965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of these protests are highly organized, and emerging evidence suggests they are largely artificial. In other words, NGOs are hiring &#8220;rent-a-protesters&#8221; to amplify their message and create the illusion of popular support\u2014when in reality, that mass support does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>The latest evidence comes from an interview between NewsNation&#8217;s Brian Entin and Adam Swart, CEO of an activist group called &#8220;Crowds on Demand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swart told Entin that an unnamed organization offered his company $20 million to recruit demonstrators for the anti-Trump protests on Thursday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}