President Trump is under attack.
As I write this, a coalition of influential organizations and individuals is mobilizing to sabotage his second term in office. They are using a multi-pronged strategy of media manipulation and bureaucratic resistance to stall, discredit, and obstruct his presidency at every turn.
Perhaps the most damning piece of evidence against Omidyar is his own record on government surveillance.
Activist groups, heavily funded by billionaire donors, push narratives that delegitimize his administration, portraying it as a crisis for democracy itself. Media outlets, many of which are financially dependent on these same donor networks, act as megaphones for these efforts, flooding the public with narratives that frame Trump’s presidency as a chaotic, dangerous aberration.
A key figure in this effort is Pierre Omidyar, the obscenely wealthy founder of eBay. The 57-year-old is one of the most powerful yet least scrutinized players in Big Tech’s political machine. Unlike Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk, Omidyar avoids the public eye, quietly funding agendas and shaping narratives without drawing attention. For many, his name barely registers — a testament to how effectively he operates while staying out of the spotlight.
Worth over $10 billion, Omidyar is a major financier of left-wing influence campaigns, bankrolling efforts to undermine Trump’s agenda through groups like the Justice Connection. This organization provides legal and strategic support to DOJ officials resisting Trump’s policies, effectively shielding the bureaucracy from executive authority.
Backed by Omidyar’s Democracy Fund and George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, these groups are rallying fired or reassigned bureaucrats to frame Trump’s effort to dismantle the deep state as a political purge — turning routine government shake-ups into manufactured crises.
The corrosive influence of the Open Society Foundation is well-documented, but Omidyar’s Democracy Fund operates with far less oversight — just like its founder. Since 2014, it has poured nearly $425 million into reshaping America’s political landscape under the banner of “strengthening democracy.” In reality, this means aggressively pushing DEI-driven narratives, bankrolling opposition research, and sustaining activist networks built to cement a rigid ideological order. Its mission has little to do with democracy and everything to do with enriching those who see Trump as an existential threat.
Its website is steeped in the language of systemic oppression, insisting that while America has made progress, every step forward has been met with “violence, oppression, and the manipulation of a rigged system.” Reading it, you’d think it was describing a different country, or an America that resembles present-day Iraq. It casts the present as a “dangerous inflection point,” demanding an expanded “pro-democracy movement” to fight alleged anti-democratic threats and push for sweeping structural overhauls.
But this is just one chapter in Omidyar’s political playbook.
For over two decades, the Iranian-American has built a huge influence machine, using foundations, think tanks, and media ventures to steer narratives and policy in lockstep with the globalist agenda.
Since 2004, the Omidyar Network has poured over $1.5 billion into progressive causes. This so-called “philanthropic investment firm” funds left-wing nonprofits, media outlets, and political groups pushing election overhauls, censorship disguised as “fighting misinformation,” and attacks on nationalist movements. It also erects digital and legal barriers to block political opposition.
One of Omidyar’s greatest weapons is his control over information. Through his media investments — including The Intercept, which he owns through First Look Media — he bankrolls outlets that claim journalistic independence while reinforcing establishment narratives. Much like Vice, which once prided itself on edgy, unfiltered journalism before becoming a corporate mouthpiece, The Intercept was initially celebrated for its fearless investigative reporting. But under Omidyar’s control, it has drifted further down the path of censorship-driven, anti-Trump advocacy.
His ownership of The Intercept is particularly significant because it gives Omidyar direct access to one of the most explosive intelligence leaks in modern history — the Snowden files. The outlet was responsible for handling classified NSA documents that Edward Snowden risked his life to disclose.
But instead of making the full archive public, The Intercept slow-walked releases, selectively published information, and eventually shut down the archive entirely in 2019. This decision prevented further scrutiny of U.S. intelligence abuses and raised serious concerns about whether The Intercept was ever truly adversarial — or just a containment tool for managing and diluting whistleblower disclosures.
Omidyar Is Not What He Appears To Be
This isn’t speculation. In 2018, FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds accused Omidyar of launching The Intercept not to protect press freedom, but to take control of the Snowden leaks and bury damaging revelations. According to Edmonds, the outlet was never intended to serve as a platform for transparency. Rather, it functioned as a honey trap, luring whistleblowers into a false sense of security while ensuring their disclosures were buried, filtered, or weaponized to benefit elite interests.
The pattern is clear. The Guardian initially broke the NSA mass surveillance scandal, but once The Intercept obtained the files, the story stalled. By all appearances, this was no accident; it was deliberate.
Perhaps the most damning piece of evidence against Omidyar is his own record on government surveillance. In 2009 — just a few years before reinventing himself as a press freedom advocate — he publicly defended NSA spying. He even stated that anyone who published “stolen” information should assist in tracking down the leaker.
This was not a passing remark. It reveals a clear contradiction in Omidyar’s carefully curated image.
He isn’t a champion of truth. If anything, he operates as a deep state asset, working to undermine the current president at every turn.
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