It’s George Soros, insist anti-Semites
The Net is awash in speculation since the announcement Thursday afternoon that New York District attorney Alvin Bragg indicted former reality TV star, MAGA cult leader, and insurrection instigator Donald Trump. (Did we mention he was once President of the United States, twice impeached?) The indictment remains sealed until next week, meaning specific criminal charges are not public. Until then, we will endure the endless what ifs and what nows of punditry required to fill web pages and air space on 24-hour cable news.
A U.S. president has been indicted! It’s the first time! Smells like a new car!
It’s all a plot “FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS,” dontcha know. The 92-year-old, Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and Jewish billionaire-philanthropist is so peripatetic in conservative lore that they see him hiding in more woodpiles than Commies during the height of the Cold War.
Buried under the banner headlines is the shameless anti-Semitism on display by Trump and his defenders. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Fox News are so busy hyping the investigation as a dastardly, deep-state plot funded by Soros that they’ve almost forgotten to point out to MAGites that “Soros-backed” Bragg is, you know, Black.
It’s worse than nonsense. After the slaughter of Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, if the party that all but bears Trump’s name in gold letters had any conscience, it would drop that shit. But no. Republicans are laying it on thick.
Find the inflammatory rhetoric debunked here and here and here and here and here.
“George Soros and Alvin Bragg have never met in person or spoken by telephone, email, Zoom etc.,” a Soros spokesperson, Michael Vachon, told Insider via email. “There has been no contact between the two. Neither George Soros nor Democracy PAC contributed to Alvin Bragg’s campaign for Manhattan District Attorney.”
But MSNBC’s Medhi Hasan slapped down the anti-Semites with more panache:
When Trump supporters react to the indictment with violence, it will be the left’s fault. Glenn Beck warned Tucker Carlson:
“What this is all about, I believe, is trying to inflame this country. They’ve wanted violence from the right from the beginning. They can’t wait [for] it. They need it. Because if we strike out—look at January 6!” Beck said.
The right is as perpetually innocent as doves. Victims always.