In 2022, when then-Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt launched an investigation into the Mark Zuckerberg-funded, leftist infiltration of U.S. elections, Schmitt’s press secretary told Red State, “[W]e aren’t backing down — we’re going to continue to fight and get to the bottom of this.”
More than two years later, Schmitt is representing the Show Me State in the U.S. Senate and his successor, Attorney General Andrew Bailey, has effectively killed the “Zuckbucks” investigation, sources tell The Federalist.
“When the new guy came in, he just basically stopped working on it,” a source with detailed knowledge of the investigation told The Federalist this week.
And, sources note, no lawsuit has been filed against the Center for Tech & Civic Life, the Chicago-based, left-wing nonprofit organization that raked in at least $328 million from Facebook founder Zuckerberg and his wife to fund grants for local election administration — particularly in critical swing states — leading up to the hotly contested 2020 election.
Bailey’s conservative critics have questioned his commitment to holding accountable the purveyors of the Zuckbucks election interference scheme, and what they see as his lack of interest in taking on President Joe Biden’s executive order turning executive branch agencies into a taxpayer get-out-the-vote machine for Democrats.
‘The Investigation Stopped’
Schmitt announced in June 2022 that his office issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) — an administrative subpoena — to leftist “voter rights” group CTCL seeking documents involving its “charitable activities.” As The Federalist’s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway reported in her
