George Soros has said he’s proud of his enemies, and there are plenty of them. But while he’s rich and influential, is he succeeding in his political agenda?
in New York over hush-money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Soros’s name was on the tip of the former president’s tongue.
McLaughlin says Soros is just working within the U.S. system and “gives money for progressive causes because he wants to end the drug war and mass incarceration,” adding that while the billionaire is often attacked as a meddlesome outsider, he is an American citizen and, as such, “has skin in the game.”
“I learned at a very early age that what kind of social system or political system prevails is very important. Not just for your well-being, but for your very survival,” Soros. “I could have been killed by the Nazis. I could have wasted my life under the Communists. So, that’s what led me to this idea of an open society.”
Soros backed Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and later Hillary Clinton’s before her 2016 loss to Trump. According to Influence Watch, which tracks U.S. political lobbying and fundraising, he has backed the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movements and given some $90 million to groups that participated in the 2017 Women’s March to protest Trump’s election.
In 2017, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was campaigning for a third term in office on an anti-immigrant platform. It was two years after hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Afghanistan had marched through the country in a bid for asylum protections in Europe — a mass migration that Orban claimed Soros himself had orchestrated to force sovereign countries to take in Muslim refugees.
Neither did Trump when his 2016 election ad flashed Soros’s face when speaking of “those who control the levers of power in Washington and … the global special interests” — more not-so-subtle coding in reference to his Jewish origins, according to theThe point, it’s argued, is to make a subtle wink to those attuned to the conspiracy theories, the coded messages and the hate. McLaughlin says it’s unwise to think the sentiment is widespread, “but I do think that it registers.
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