Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/george-soros-justice-dept.html

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When the Justice Department urged federal prosecutors last month to investigate the billionaire George Soros, it cited a report by a conservative watchdog group that accused the liberal megadonor of financing groups “tied to terrorism or extremist violence.”

But the report by Washington-based Capital Research Center does not show evidence that Mr. Soros’s network knowingly paid for its grantees to break the law, which legal experts said would be necessary to build a criminal case.

In fact, the report does not offer proof that groups that received money from the Soros-backed Open Society Foundations used those donations to commit acts of violence or terrorism.

Instead, it focuses largely on what the Soros network’s grantees said, not what they did. The report, which was published Sept. 17, largely catalogs statements in which Soros grantees offered support for Palestinians in the wake of violent attacks against Israel, suggested tactics for civil disobedience and urged people to turn out for a protest aimed at blocking an Israeli ship from arriving at a port in Oakland, Calif.

“I see the report as a political document, saying ‘Here’s why the Soros foundation is disreputable. It gives money to bad people,’” said Stephen Gillers, an emeritus professor of law at New York University. “From a legal point of view, that’s not enough by a long shot.”

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[underpants]

1. But...but....it's a talking point

[wiggs]

2. I thought money was free speech? Does this mean that the Kock brothers can be indicated for financially supporting

the Tea Party and/or Jan 6? Or any freedom caucus member? Or TSF's candidacy, which will result in deaths of millions from one cause or another?

[CousinIT]

3. Of course not. But they're going to harass him anyway. In Trump's mind...

...that's what happened to him. He believes HE is entitled to break any and all laws that exist, and if anyone tries to stop him, that he is being "harassed" and "picked on". He's the biggest whiny-ass bitch in existence.

He is going after Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and James Comey and others just to harass them, embarrass them, and cost them time and money in lawyers and court hearings. Because Trump feels that's what they did to him -- never mind that the old asshole ACTUALLY BROKE A SHITLOAD OF LAWS and is a lifelong walking crime spree (only now with cankles) and conman. He still believes HE is entitled to do that.