1000 people with Chinese surnames reportedly paid $86K for Proud Boys medical expenses before Capitol attack

Over 1,000 people with Chinese surnames have given about $86,000 to the members of the Proud Boys via a well-known crowdfunding platform, a report says.

According to a report by USA Today, the data published by the whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets shows that these donations, which are started in around 10 p.m. on Dec. 17 at the Christian funding website GiveSendGo, made up more than 80% of the $106,107 raised for medical costs of the Proud Boys.

“A donor named Li Zhang gave $100. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100. Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei. In all, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000,” the report said.

Meanwhile, many observers maintain that most of these donators are those who have left China in rejection of communism, particularly those who support former US President Donald Trump.

"You have to understand how we feel – we came from communist China and we managed to come here and we appreciate it here so much," said Rebecca Kwan, who sent the Proud Boys $500 on Christmas Day. "The Proud Boys are for Trump and they are fighting antifa, and can you see anything good that antifa did except destroy department stores and small businesses?"        

The report by the USA Today comes after a similar report by the UK-based Guardian daily in April, in which it claimed that the Proud Boys and other far-right groups have raise millions via the GiveSendGo website.

Some of the biggest beneficiaries, the report said, “have been members of groups such as the Proud Boys -- designated as a terrorist group in Canada” – with many of its fundraising efforts directly linked to the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.

“The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, shows the site was used for a wide range of legitimate charitable purposes, such as crowd-funding medical bills, aid projects and religious missions,” the report noted.

The site’s permissive stance towards far-right actors, however, meant that groups who had been banned from other fundraising platforms and payment processors following episodes of hate speech and violence have also used the platform.

According to the report, across at least 11 crowd-funding campaigns associated with the Proud Boys, members of the group, including some now facing conspiracy charges related to the Capitol attack, raised more than $375,000.

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