Puppet Masters

Puppetmaster George Soros is indeed an enabler of US street violence

Cheryl K. Chumley
Washington Times
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:08 UTC

Fox News saw a bit of a dust-up this week when Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, referred on air to the influences of billionaire George Soros on the violence that's gone forth in the streets of mostly Democrat-controlled communities — only to have his comments shut down. Censored, some might even say.

Apologies and clarifications soon after came. But let's be clear and let's stay clear on this: Soros is indeed diddling in America's political and legal systems. And his diddling is indeed having a "have at it" effect on those who would take to the streets, with bricks, to express their frustrations with President Donald Trump.

This is no conspiracy theory.

This is no tin foil hat moment.

This is a fact — a traceable, verifiable fact. What's more, it's not too hard to trace and verify.

Comment: The lame backpeddle from Fox:

In the 2018-2019 election cycle, Soros spent more than $2 million on three commonwealth's attorney races in Northern Virginia. As The Daily Signal wrote it up

: "Radical social justice activists will serve as the top prosecutors for three major Washington, D.C., suburbs — including the two wealthiest counties in the U.S. — after George Soros' political action committee poured $2.1 million into ordinarily sleepy local races."

Even The Washington Post recognized his financial contributions — at least part of them.

"PAC funded by George Soros pumps nearly $1 million into local races for prosecutor," the newspaper wrote in June 2019.

Soros tossed almost another $2 million into a Philadelphia district attorney race, helping his candidate of choice, Larry Krasner, actually win. And then he threw more behind other Pennsylvania candidates, too.

"George Soros wading into the Delco District Attorney race shows problematic influence," Christine Flowers of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote in November 2019.

Why is this problematic?

Flowers nailed it. Soros, she wrote, has "no connection to the Philadelphia area," yet "tried to manipulate" the local political machine to his will with $1 million "to get a Delco Democrat elected."

It's what he does. It's how Soros spends his money — by buying or trying to buy political influence and political candidates.

Between 2014 and 2019, Soros spen t around $17 million on local law enforcement races around the country, including $2 million to stop the strictly conservative, strictly law and order Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona, from grabbing the seat.

These are not hidden wheelings and dealings.

These are not hard-to-track, tough-to-discover campaign contributions.

"Soros Aims to Transform the Justice System by Funding DA Races," Capital Research Center wrote in one headline from December 2019.

Indeed he does.

And there's nothing quiet about it.

Except maybe the silence of many in the news media.

But facts are facts. And the fact that Soros, a social justice warrior who advocates for the same types of prison reform that make up the leftist talking points — you know, that Blacks are targeted by police for arrest, and criminals in America are too harshly treated — the fact he presses these ideas absolutely explains the thuggery in the streets right now. The fact he furthers these principles absolutely explains the emboldened thugs in the streets right now.

If Soros funds far leftist prosecutors who think justice is about skin color first, alleged crime second, then who's to prosecute the thuggish, violent street protesters? Who's to put the Antifa terrorists behind bars? Who's to reel in the Black Lives Matter radicals tossing Molotov cocktails?

Nobody.

Like it or not, this is Soros' money, this is the Soros influence, at work.

Comment: From Robby Starbuck of the The Federalist:

Since 2015, George Soros has been executing a plan to reshape the country through local district attorney elections by pumping unprecedented amounts of money into races that typically only see candidates spend in the low five figures.

Here's why he has an interest in these local races. Soros is exploiting the reality that all politics are local in some way. To transform America, you have to transform the way towns and cities operate

Buying Prosecutors Who Are Soft on Crime

Since 2015, Soros has pumped tens of millions of dollars into local races in Texas, Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington, Florida, and New York, as well as swing states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Arizona. In 2016, Soros spent $2,000,000 on a single sheriff race in Maricopa County, Arizona, helping the leftist candidate, Paul Penzone, win.

In Philadelphia, Soros spent an insane $1,700,000 to elect Larry Krasner DA. Soros has also given millions of dollars in grants to candidates in other states. These enormous contributions have a correspondingly enormous impact.

Although his efforts haven't been universally successful, the vast majority of Soros-backed candidates have won with Soros donations pushing them across the finish line. Here are just a few examples:

$2,000,000 to fund Kim Foxx in her Cook County (Chicago, Ill.) re-election bid.

$1,400,000 to fund Aramis Ayala's campaign to become state's attorney of Orlando, Fla.

$1,150,000 to fund Jake Lilly's run to become DA of Jefferson and Gilpin County (Denver) in Colorado.

$958,000 to fund Joe Gonzales's run to become DA of Bexar County (San Antonio, Texas).

$650,000 to fund Jose Garza in his Travis County (Austin, Texas) re-election bid.

$750,000 to fund Joe Kimok in his Broward County, Fla. state's attorney race.

$583,000 to fund Kim Ogg's run to become Harris County (Houston, Texas) DA.

$583,000 to fund Parisa Dehghani-Tafti in her race to be Arlington County (Va.) commonwealth's attorney.

$500,000 to fund Jody Owen's run to become Hinds County, Miss. (Jackson) DA.

$406,000 to fund James E. Stewart's run to become Caddo Parish, La. (Shreveport) DA.

$392,000 to fund Steve T. Descano's bid to become Fairfax County (Va.) commonwealth's attorney.

$275,000 to fund Diana Becton's bid to remain as Contra Costa County, Calif. DA.

$147,000 to fund Darius Pattillo in his run to become Harris County, Ga. DA.

$116,000 to fund Kim Gardner's re-election bid as St. Louis circuit attorney.

$107,000 to fund Raul Torrez bid to become Benalillo County (Albuquerque, N.M.) DA.

$89,000 to fund Scott Colom's bid to become DA of Lowndes County, Miss.

That's just a partial list, but it surely corroborates Gingrich's point that Soros "paid for" the outcomes of those elections, notwithstanding Harf's unsubstantiated denial. In 2018 The Los Angeles Times reported that Soros spent $2,700,000 on California DA races alone, and another $16 million on 17 DA races in other states.

What Soros's DAs Have Done In Office

Now let's talk about what happens after Election Day, when the Soros-backed candidates start wielding their newfound power. Many of the following names will likely be familiar.

[Kim] Foxx is well known as the DA who let actor Jussie Smollett escape prosecution after he hoaxed the nation by pretending he was beaten up by two men who allegedly shouted "This is MAGA country" in deep-blue Chicago, Illinois. A special prosecutor assigned to examine Foxx's conduct in the case said there was "substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures" and determined she was guilty of "making false and/or misleading statements to the public."

A recent report from the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, moreover, found a 13 percent decline in guilty pleas or verdicts in felony cases and a 39 percent increase in dropped or lost cases after Foxx took office.

If you've had the misfortune of hearing Kim Gardner's name, it's probably because she's trying to throw Mark and Patricia McCloskey in jail for defending their home by exercising their right to bear arms when they were threatened by rioters. Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, along with Baltimore DA Maryln Mosby, threatened in an op-ed to have federal officers arrested if these prosecutors feel they overstep their authority in his district.

[Chesa] Boudin is one of the DAs on this list who refuses to prosecute what he calls "quality-of-life crimes" such as camping in the streets, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, and more. He also recently questioned whether spending money on law enforcement is "the most effective" use of tax dollars. He has also said that policing and incarceration "are tremendously expensive and are failed responses to what we are trying to deal with."

Diane Becton of Contra Costa County, Calif. filed hate crime charges against David Nelson and Nichole Anderson for painting over a Black Lives Matter mural. Suffolk County, Mass. DA Rachael Rollins, along with Krasner and Boudin, is part of the also-Soros-backed "Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commissions" that team up with far-left activist Shaun King's "Grassroots Law Project" to advocate for defunding the police. Yes, that's the same Shaun King who recently called for people to destroy statues and stained glass windows that depict Jesus as white.

Before going on his spending spree in DA races, Soros also made a $50 million donation to the American Civil Liberties Union's "Campaign to End Mass Incarceration" through his Open Society Foundation in 2014. Much of this money trickled down to local progressive groups who back these types of radical candidates as well.

Without Law and Order, You Don't Have a Country

After watching the Fox News exchange involving Gingrich, Francis, Harf, and Faulkner, I wondered how anyone who works in the news business could be so uninformed about what Soros has been up to. The left-wing billionaire's plan clearly operates on the understanding that all politics are local and takes advantage of small-ball local DA races to remake the American justice system — and, by extension, remake all of America into the far-left world of his dreams.

That leap from remaking our justice system to remaking America may seem like a long jump to some, but law and order is the core of America's existence. Without law and order, you don't have a country.

If you want to know what the next step is for Soros, it's a continued expansion of funding for DA races, but also so much more. His recent pledge of $1 billion to endow a network of universities across the nation is part and parcel with his broader effort to promote his far-left ideology among impressionable young people.

Soros calls this initiative "the most important project of my life." That should deeply concern ordinary Americans everywhere, and perhaps even inspire a backlash of small-dollar donations to fight Soros's pernicious influence.

I believe that maintaining our freedoms and preserving the Constitution are two pillars of keeping America great, along with upholding the rule of law and properly educating our youth. Soros has a plan to systematically tear down those pillars, and we're not supposed to talk about it. But we must, and we will.