Trump sets sights on liberal mega-donor George Soros: ‘A chilling message to other donors’
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, said “everything is on the table” and left it there. But Donald Trump threw discretion to the wind and was far more specific about his choice of enemy to go after.
“If you look at Soros, he’s at the top of everything,” the US president said.
The gathering with reporters took place in the Oval Office last month as Trump ordered a crackdown on “leftwing terrorism” and threatened to investigate and prosecute those who financially support it.
There is no evidence linking George Soros, a 95-year-old billionaire who has supported democratic causes around the world, or Reid Hoffman, who helped start PayPal and the networking site LinkedIn, to terrorism. But both are top donors to the Democratic party. And both were named by Trump as potential participants in a vast conspiracy to finance violent protesters against the government.
It is no coincidence, critics say, that the president is intensifying his attacks on Soros little more than a year before the midterm elections for Congress. The billionaire has reportedly contributed more than $170m to help Democrats during the 2022 midterm cycle. A justice department investigation could deter both Soros and other would-be donors in 2026.
The only surprise here is that it’s taken Mushroom Cock this long to specifically target Soros, who has kind of been the embodiment of BIG JOOOOOOOOOO for the far right for a long time, mostly because he’s been using his obscene wealth to help the Democrats rather than them. Not all billionaires are good, clearly. Maybe going after Soros on day 1 would’ve been considered too obvious or something? We know there’s a bunch of antisemites in the regime, Marjorie Taylor-Greene just being the most overt one, but going after Soros too soon would’ve made it too clear? I don’t know. Still, kind of reassuring to know they do indeed have Soros in their sights; there’s so many other people and institutions Drumpf wants to ruin that George was in danger of being forgotten…
