I'd add that even this were happening -- and there's zero evidence that it is -- unless the funder is a foreign entity, **it is not a crime** to pay protesters.
Radley Balko
Since Trump took office, there has not been a single arrest of a "paid protestor," or indeed a single piece of evidence that paid protestors exist.
It remains something that Trump admin officials routinely claim to be investigating but have so far utterly failed to prove is more than a fantasy.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Markwayne Mullin: "We're tracking the social media posts that are a lot of times from foreign actors, and we're going after the paid protesters. And we're going after the people that fund those paid protesters."
