Mark Zuckerberg is best known for creating and leading Facebook, a company that’s made him one of the wealthiest men in the world. With an estimated worth of $80 billion, he poured hundreds of millions of his fortune into the 2020 election. Here’s the thing: You probably had no idea at the time Zuckerberg was influencing the outcome of the most contentious presidential election in our lifetime. That’s because we didn’t learn the true extent of Zuckerberg’s financial contributions until the voting already took place. Now, thanks to a new 40-minute documentary film from Citizens United Productions, we know what he did and how to prevent it from happening again. Citizens United President David Bossie hosts and narrates the film, “Rigged: The Zuckerberg-Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump.” He joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” with director Jason Killian Meath. Listen to the full show or read a lightly edited transcript of our interview below. Rob Bluey: David, let’s start with you.
How did Mark Zuckerberg help defeat Donald Trump, and how did he get away with it? David Bossie: Such a great question. What most people don’t know, and I would think that most people listening to this right now don’t know, is that Mark Zuckerberg spent $400 million in the 2020 election cycle, and he spent it specifically in just the last several months of the campaign through nonprofits. He sent his money through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which is he and his wife’s operation. They sent the money to these two very hardcore left-wing organizations, the Center for Tech and Civic Life and one other. CTCL, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, received about $327 million. Just to put it in perspective, their budget in 2019 was $1 million. Their budget for 2020 was $328 million. It’s just an incredible flow of money that came in there. Their money went out in these grants to state and local election officials.
They basically used that money for a giant, massive Democrat get-out-the-vote effort using the drop boxes and mail-in ballots and absentee ballot programs to generate votes for Joe Biden. I submit that if Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t spend the $400 million in the last three or four months of the campaign, Joe Biden does not win. Bluey: What was it that inspired you to make this film? We’ve heard President Trump talk about the stolen election. We’ve had other people talk about a rigged election. This must have been a massive undertaking on your part to wade through documents and information that many people in the legacy media would have just easily ignored. Bossie: Yeah, they have, much like the Hunter Biden laptop story. They suppress these stories. They don’t want to tell the stories. They don’t cover the stories. These are important issues. The biased corporate media that we live in and with today, they decide what the American people know and what they don’t know.
Much like half of America that voted and supported Donald Trump, I was frustrated, and I felt like there needed to be an answer to this thirst out there in America, this passion that has made election integrity, which is kind of a boring subject and most people don’t care about it. It’s not in the top five or top 10 issues in America when you look at the polling data. Election integrity is now at the top of polls especially Republican primary voters. They don’t want to vote for somebody who is not going to take a position to answer and solve the problems of what happened in the past. So with that question out there and my relationship with President Trump that has been longstanding, we decided that we would try to take this on. It was only through the process of making it did we understand the actual narrative.