The following comment was removed by the moderators. It is the only attempt to refute the 4chan post. I am posting so the full argument may be seen by all.

[-]EvanHarper 453 points a day ago [removed] (7 children) This is completely delusional. You people are exactly the gullible, easily manipulated sheeple that you constantly denounce. You're buying into ridiculously easy-to-debunk theories that have been fed to you solely because they impugn someone your political touchstone, Donald Trump, doesn't get along with. It's quite pathetic. *Ashton Kutcher has done a lot of (shitty, poorly conceived, but real) anti-trafficking advocacy and Lynn de Rothschild is a well-known philanthropist.

*Boards of Trustees and Advisory Boards are by definition low-effort posts. Their job is to meet once every couple of months for a few hours and largely rubber-stamp things. Anyone who doesn't understand this is not even casually familiar with non-profit organizations.

*Having "billionaire donors" has nothing to do with how much capacity a group actually has; the point is how much they actually get in donations. And mentioning John McCain's campaign money is completely off-point. The theory that he's laundering campaign money into a charity is idiotic, besides the total lack of evidence given; the rules for charities and charity donors are much looser and more laxly enforced than for political campaigns, so if anything, you'd worry about laundering charitable donations into his campaign fund somehow.

*The McCain Institute consists of more than just its program on human trafficking; it seems to be primarily a think tank. The fact that an institute that's not primarily about human trafficking is making donations that aren't related to human trafficking is not even remotely suspicious. The fact that an institution hosted at Arizona State University is making donations to Arizona State University is... even less remotely suspicious.

*It is obviously not the case that the McCain Institute is doing "NOTHING ELSE" but writing this one check every year. You can verify this by, for example, going to its YouTube page where you can see lectures, conferences, awards ceremonies, and all the other crap that a think tank typically does. Or you can go look up the ASU internship program that partners with them. Or you can look up their fellowships program where they give subsidies and visibility to people they think are doing good work. Or the published academic research, legal amicus briefs, etc with their name on it. Or... There is literally nothing suspicious about the McCain Institute either in the facts this guy adduces, or at a glance on your own. There's absolutely nothing to this.