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(55,630 posts) Thu Aug 28, 2025, 04:49 PM Thursday

(JEWISH GROUP) Trump's attack on George Soros is ludicrous. It also endangers Jews (and everyone else)

“George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” President Donald Trump posted to his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday.

“We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to ‘BREATHE,’ and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country!”

Blaming Soros, the 95-year-old Hungarian-born Jewish philanthropist, financier and Holocaust survivor, for violence in America is ludicrous (and ironic: if an aged Soros had the power Trump says he does, surely Trump would not be president).

It is also antisemitic and, perhaps most pressingly, has a proven history of being dangerous.

Often, when conspiracies around Soros are described as antisemitic, someone will pop up to say that criticism of Soros isn’t antisemitic. And that is correct. Criticism of him or what he has actually said and done is not. However, Trump’s post does not describe Soros’s actual actions, but rather presents a fever dream in which one Jewish person is powerful and hateful enough to tear the nation apart, thus bringing us safely into the realm of antisemitism.

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(JEWISH GROUP) Trump's attack on George Soros is ludicrous. It also endangers Jews (and everyone else) (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Thursday OP

Liberals aren't allowed to be wealthy, or at least to use their wealth Ocelot II Thursday #1

Good to see the Jewish Group mountain grammy Thursday #2

MaddowBlog-Trump targets Soros as part of a larger campaign against the left's infrastructure LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #3

Ocelot II

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1. Liberals aren't allowed to be wealthy, or at least to use their wealth

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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 04:57 PM

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to support liberal causes. Only GOPers are allowed to do that.

mountain grammy

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2. Good to see the Jewish Group

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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 05:18 PM

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Posting news of the attacks from the most antisemitic president in my lifetime, maybe in our history.
More of this please.

LetMyPeopleVote

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3. MaddowBlog-Trump targets Soros as part of a larger campaign against the left's infrastructure

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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 05:25 PM

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The president called for a progressive donor to be charged with racketeering, following the tyrants’ playbook about how to deal with political opposition.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-george-soros-racketeering-allegations-rcna227733

Donald Trump has spent nearly a decade peddling absurd claims about “paid protesters” — as if anyone who disagrees with him must necessarily be corrupt and inauthentic — and the president kept that push going in an awkwardly worded online statement last week.....

A week later, the president seemed to go into a bit more detail this week. NBC News reported:

Trump said on Truth Social this morning that billionaire philanthropist George Soros and his son Alex Soros should be charged with racketeering. ‘George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,’ Trump wrote. ... It’s unclear what protests Trump, who has repeatedly attacked the Soros family, was referring to or what prompted his post.

In the same online missive, Trump also wrote, in a message directed at a “friend” of Soros, “Be careful, we’re watching you!”....

I’m reminded of an important observation The New York Times made in March: “Mr. Trump and his allies are aggressively attacking the players and machinery that power the left, taking a series of highly partisan official actions that, if successful, will threaten to hobble Democrats’ ability to compete in elections for years to come.”

The evidence to bolster the point isn’t hard to find. After all, in recent months, the Trump administration has targeted leading Democratic officials the president doesn’t like; it’s also opened an investigation into Media Matters, which came on the heels of Trump directing the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s most important fundraising platform, all while targeting prominent Democratic supporters.

Now, abandoning subtlety about his authoritarian vision, Trump is calling for a leading progressive donor to be charged with racketeering, based on nothing whatsoever, sticking to the tyrants’ playbook about how to deal with political opposition.

Back in 2018, a good friend ran for District Attorney in my county. Another good friend helped him go through the interview process with a Soros affiliated group to get funding. It took three or four meetings but my friend was funded by the Soros affiliate and won.

I expect to see a nasty fight this cycle with Soros coming up.

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