Analysis: The rest of the world is watching as Donald Trump becomes the first former U.S. president charged with a crime.
DeSantis, potentially Trump’s main primary challenger, aped Trump’s rhetoric, decrying the proceedings as a politicized farce., the aging Jewish American financier, in the investigation. Trump sent out fundraising emails decrying Soros as the “puppet master” controlling Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney prosecuting the current case that led to a grand jury voting to indict Trump. DeSantis said Trump was being hounded by a “manufactured circus by some Soros-DA.
“Soros is simply a large political donor who entered the fray in 2004, when he contributed $27 million to groups trying to oust President George W. Bush,” explained journalist and Soros biographer Emily Tamkin in. “He also has supported progressive district attorney candidates and is putting millions into defeating Trump. But there’s a difference between making political donations — something many rich people do — and plotting a revolution.
Tell that to conspiratorially minded right-wingers around the world, from India to Hungary to the United States, who all invoke Soros’s network of influence as if it’s a coherent, masterminded project of global domination. The vehemence of this rhetoric, many critics suggest, has more to do with summoning antisemitic canards than any actual political critique.
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