Unfortunately, there’s a lot of dirty laundry that needs airing out. The other day, Graham Ellwood, who I respect and appreciate, came forward talking about money Jimmy Dore had accepted from a COVID-conspiracy theorist – an extremely wealthy Canadian man.
It’s all true. And his name was Peter Allard. He was my friend for a time.
Jimmy Dore fans can balk all they want but it is 100% true.
I answer all your questions here in this livestream:
https://youtube.com/live/1Cwn0ct-6JM
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In April of 2017, Truth Against the Machine, Jordan Chariton's non-profit I came on board to help run in 2017, received $50,000 of money upfront after being recommended to Peter Allard by Jimmy Dore.
We received $5,000 per month until Jordan was accused by TYT (falsely) of mishandling funds. Allard cut us off financially and we made a few appeals for funding following that and for Status Coup when we folded TATM but those attempts were unsuccessful.
There were times when we WERE still receiving money that Allard and his right-hand man Donald Best attempted some control. ETA: NEVER would we have changed our reporting for money.
Allard liked me particularly for whatever reason and so we had several long phone calls talking politics through the years (about 3/4 years) and remained friendly … though the things he started saying (Tulsi, Anti-vax, COVID conspiracies, climate change denial, etc.) started to bother me and our conversations tapered off.
I went on two reporting trips sponsored by Allard, one for the Allard Prize in 2017. Glenn Greenwald was also in attendance. Interestingly, one of the finalists was Lava Jato which GG later went on to report against.
Other journalists DECLINED to spew anti-vax lies and so were cut off from funding. It will be up to them if they want to come forward. This is multiple.
*** some Jimmy Dore fans need it spelled out more clearly: receiving money with strings and editorial control attached = bad! ***
You get the picture. It’s a sad, horrible shame that people would rather lie for cash than stand strong for the people when it doesn’t serve their own interests.
Couldn’t be me!
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Jenn, Thanks for the true courage in exposing JD. I can hardly watch him and his sycophants anymore--constantly gaslighting us as if we were stupid. Using his logic, which once had something behind it, he is arguing against his views to anyone critically thinking.
Sad to see that most of the comments here are from trolls/Dore stans. Three different people formerly associated in some way with Jimmy Dore who have never been accused of being anything but honest by most people on the left before--you, Graham, and Jordan--have so far come forward with the same story that Dore was getting paid by Allard in part to promote his anti-vax views, which is very believable given that his content shifted so noticeably toward emphasizing the same sort of Covid-minimizing, vax-questioning narrative of the likes of John Campbell, Max Blumenthal, Russell Brand (who Jimmy has been defending on Twitter), Bret Weinstein, etc. around mid-2021, and these fools have the nerve to suggest that you're lying or don't know what you're talking about with regard to Jimmy.
Anyway, I've been calling out Dore and other formerly consistent leftists (as well as RFK, just a liberal) who have been pushing this nonsense on my YouTube channel as well as my Substack ever since I saw what was happening with Jimmy. It's been a frustrating experience and has brought a lot of vitriol down on me from the Doreknobs, but I'm gonna keep doing it. So glad to see Graham come forward about this and you back him up with all these receipts (although I wish you got more views/reads)! Even though I don't always agree with you or Graham (though I usually do), both of you have unimpeachable integrity, which unfortunately seems very rare in the left YouTuber/blogger community. And I was wondering if you'd be interested in coming on my show some time to talk about your investigation. Maybe if those of us who are trying to call Jimmy's awful Covid takes out but don't have more than a tiny fraction of his reach could combine our efforts, we could reach more people about this.