Billionaire ticks all the boxes on the antisemitic score card as Trump attacks Democratic contributors before midterms
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, said “everything is on the table” and left it there. But Donald Trump threw discretion to the wind and was far more specific about his choice of enemy to go after.
“If you look at Soros, he’s at the top of everything,” the US president said.
The gathering with reporters took place in the Oval Office last month as Trump ordered a crackdown on “leftwing terrorism” and threatened to investigate and prosecute those who financially support it.
There is no evidence linking George Soros, a 95-year-old billionaire who has supported democratic causes around the world, or Reid Hoffman, who helped start PayPal and the networking site LinkedIn, to terrorism. But both are top donors to the Democratic party. And both were named by Trump as potential participants in a vast conspiracy to finance violent protesters against the government.
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lennybird@lemmy.world · 93 pts · 348d
Musk was literally prancing around in cabinet meetings and giving people a million dollars to register (and vote).
Murdoch, Kochs, Thiel have arguably been at the top of everything.
I know Trump knows this. Psychopaths don't care, of course. Just setting the record straight.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 348d
Well, actually, promising it but never delivering.
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 348d
He delivered. Just to Republican insiders.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 10 pts · 348d
Reminding people of basic reality is a solemn civic duty during the onset of authoritarian hypernormalization.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 348d
They've only ever accused him of "funding". Never accused him of rigging the media, voting machines, green energy, trans surgeries, liberal curriculums, or getting dozens of govt contracts. Right wing billionaires do ALL OF THIS STUFF!
9point6@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 348d
I wonder who they are going to make into their next cartoon villain when he kicks the bucket
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 348d
They'll just say he used a medbed to come back.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 348d
Emmanuel Goldstein, of course.
_thebrain_@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 348d
Not cereal killer!
Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 348d
His son.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 348d
It's weird how nearly every one of the Republican knuckle-draggers know the name of Soros....but how many know about all the megadonors on the right?
Imagine if there was something like ALEC, but on the left....all of these yokels would be talking about it all the time, but I've not known too many at the base level among conservatives who even knew about ALEC (and those that do try to play it off as a "conspiracy theory" to show any concern about their methods and their motives)...I doubt too many know about the shadowy groups underwriting Project 2025 (something for which some of the MSM even still tries to downplay, although I've not heard them call it a "liberal conspiracy theory", at least, lately, although when it fucking mattered last summer and fall, they certainly acted as if it was a conspiracy theory.), either: Coors Family, Koch, Uihlein, Scaife, Seid, Bradley.
And then there is Musk, who everyone knows for supposedly being some uber-engineer (lol) and super-great at business, etc, though not much focus on his funding efforts of Republicans.
minnow@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 348d
They know, and they don't care. They're fascists; what's allowed for them isn't allowed for their opposition, because fairness is for the weak.
PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au · 19 pts · 348d
I really aspire to do enough to try to improve the world, that an entire generation of right-wing goons make my name into a code word for the boogeyman. It definitely means you are doing something right.
Tryenjer@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 348d
If only Soros was half of what they claim him to be...
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 348d
They MUST go After the People PAYING Protesters to cause Chaos and PAYING to have Access to the Government and PAYING Lawmakers to give THEM Billion dollar Taxpayer Funded CONTRACTS! OBVIOUSLY I'm talking about
Elon MuskCharlie Kirk LoL!Peter ThielGeorge Soros!cannon_annon88@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 348d
All the conspiracy nuts that makes up the majority of his base are going to love this.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
Taco and his supporting team of thugs are very much the Faux/Qanon mob manifested as an "administration".
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 348d
Miriam Adelson has entered the chat.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 0 pts · 348d
The issue isn't his Jewishness, it's that he's a billionaire capitalist. But we can't say that because it applies to us.