OPINION:
President Trump, just days after Charlie Kirk’s murder, said in a weekend interview on NBC that the Democrats’ sugar daddy, George Soros, is “a bad guy” who ought to be “put in jail” for his role in funding what’s been accused — albeit denied by the billionaire — as some of the most violent uprisings in the nation. Previously, Trump has threatened to investigate Soros for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act violations.
Soros has certainly sown political discord around the nation. And if the left can use racketeering laws to go after Trump and MAGA supporters, then tit for tat, too bad, so sad, the left can stand and face the same fires.
The difference is Democrats used RICO in 2023 to destroy Trump and MAGA. Trump is talking about using RICO to eradicate the influence of a traitor to the American cause.
The backstory is this: In a Truth Social post a month ago, Trump wrote: “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. 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! That includes his crazy, West Coast friends.”
He also added, “Be careful, we’re watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Soros’ organization, Open Society Foundations, chaired by his son, Alex, responded with a denial, saying “we do not support or fund violent protests.”
We’re all about the “human rights,” the statement read.
We’re only interested in “fundamental freedoms,” the statement read.
We’re simply fighting for “free speech” and a “vibrant democracy,” the statement read.
Nothing to see here. Go home. Nothing to see — except the millions upon millions of dollars the Open Society Foundations pour into local district attorney races to seat candidates who turn blind eyes to crime, and allow civil unrest and violent protests to progress in the streets.
“Justice for sale,” the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund wrote in a 17-page exposé on Soros money, posted in June of 2022. Among the findings? The United States has “at least 75 Soros-backed social justice prosecutors … [who] represent more than 1 in 5 Americans or more than 72 million people,” and who then push the progressive soft-on-crime narrative and policy.
“To date,” the nonprofit LELDF wrote, “Soros has spent more than $40 million on direct campaign spending over the past decade to elect prosecutors.”
The resulting instability in the streets has reached the halls of Congress.
“Soros Prosecutors Have Overseen Massive Crime Waves,” ran one 2022 headline on Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s webpage.
In Los Angeles, shootings hiked 69 percent — under the prosecutorial eyes of Soros-backed George Gascon. In Philadelphia, homicides jumped from 315 in 2017 to 562 in 2021, at the same time Soros-backed Larry Krasner took over prosecutions. In Fairfax County, Virginia, in the aftermath of winning his commonwealth attorney’s seat, Soros-backed Steve Descano announced his office would no longer prosecute a range of crimes — a foolish message that basically told the criminal element to go forth and multiply their illegal endeavors.
Soros has dipped his fingers in America’s political system for far too long, with impunity, free of consequences, despite the fact his money doesn’t just flow to areas in which he holds zero personal stake, but also furthers agendas and ideas that are utterly counter to constitutional and law and order principles. He’s been an agitator, at best; a seditionist, perhaps.
And this is what a RICO investigation would discern.
Trump on Fox News confirmed his White House is indeed “going to look into Soros” to see if his political funding and political campaigning and political influencing have crossed the line from First Amendment freedom to anti-American activity.
In 2023, Trump and 18 of his MAGA colleagues were accused by Fulton County, Georgia, factions serving the Democrat Party wills of violating RICO by trying to overturn results of the 2020 election. It was a completely ridiculous use of RICO. It was a completely ridiculous accusation at all, and now the leading accuser, District Attorney Fani Willis — tied to the Open Society Foundations — is facing allegations of her own. But the RICO can has been opened.
Trump should certainly use whatever powers he has at his disposal to upset the Soros system of buying and corrupting the American justice system — before the powers turn back Democrat and the chance to course correct is gone. Democrats will continue their lawfare as long as they’re able, but stopping the Soros flow of money will slow their ability, if even for a little while.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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