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Progressives Trot out a Tired, Old Soros Trope to Smear Marco Rubio

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The progressive left is very protective of billionaire George Soros. In fact, they are so fond of their favorite political financier that they have developed a rather odd strategy when it comes to dealing with his critics.

Whenever a conservative criticizes Soros or points out the numerous political efforts of which he has been a part, progressives respond by pretending it’s an expression of anti-Semitism. That’s right; since Soros is Jewish, the left pretends he somehow represents all of Jewry–therefore, attacking him is attacking all Jews.

The left has been employing this trope for years. But in the latest episode of “Everyone Who Criticizes Soros Hates Jews,” Democrats went after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), after he posted a tweet about Democrats shutting down a bill that would compel “Soros backed prosecutors” to actually do their jobs. “The democrats just blocked my effort to try & force Soros backed prosecutors to put dangerous criminals in jail,” Rubio tweeted.

Rubio’s tweet was met with the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from the Consortium of the Perpetually Offended™. A number of left-wing blue checkmarks responded with their usual accusations of anti-Semitism. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and an ardent defender of progressive ideology being infused into K-12 classrooms, went full hysterical, claiming that Rubio’s remarks were “how anti semitism takes root and spread.”

THIS Is how anti semitism takes root and spreads. What is a “Soros” backed prosecutor? Soros is a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust.. Orban the authoritarian leader of Hungary demonizes Soros all the time in Orban’s culture war to suppress freedom & democracy.

Podcaster Kathleen Smith also lied about those criticizing Soros. “When Rubio says ‘Soros backed prosecutors’, what he’s really saying is ‘Jews,’” she wrote. “Know that. It’s (weakly) coded antisemitism.”

Dan Murphy, an alleged journalist, claimed that when Rubio says “Soros,” he is referring to “Jews.”

And remember kids, when Marco Rubio says “Soros” he means “Jews.”

It is quite bizarre that progressives actually expect people to view Soros as a stand-in for all Jews. He is one man, after all. But then again, they did spend the entirety of President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House pretending that anyone who said an ill word about his performance was akin to the Ku Klux Klan, right?

But what is even more interesting about this dustup is that Soros himself has publicly stated his intention to fund the campaigns of far-left progressives running for attorney general positions nationwide. It is how New York’s Alvin Bragg, San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin, and Los Angeles’ George Gascon obtained their positions. In fact, Capital Research’s Parker Thayer put an entire list together of officials that Soros funded.

This is what progressives are trying to distract from by screaming “anti-Semite” at Rubio on social media. They know full well that criticizing the financier has nothing to do with anti-Jewish bigotry. Unfortunately for them, this particular tactic only works on those who already want to believe it.

Unrepentant: George Soros Vows to Continue Backing Woke Prosecutors Despite the Lives They’ve Ruined

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Billionaire activist George Soros wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal Sunday announcing his intention to continue dropping tens of millions of dollars in donations to get woke, “progressive” district attorneys elected in cities across the nation. He laughably claimed that such prosecutors are making the criminal justice system “more effective and just,” despite much evidence to the contrary, including skyrocketing crime and countless shattered lives. He writes:

Americans desperately need a more thoughtful discussion about our response to crime. People have had enough of the demagoguery and divisive partisan attacks that dominate the debate and obscure the issues.

The ninety-one-year-old, Hungarian-born financier continues, explaining that in his view the American justice system is unfair:

Yet our system is rife with injustices that make us all less safe. The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false. They reinforce each other: If people trust the justice system, it will work. And if the system works, public safety will improve. (Emphasis mine.)

There’s an obvious problem with the above sentence. People don’t trust the justice system under the prosecutors he supports, because they’ve been soft on crime and utterly uninterested in the rights of victims. If Soros witnessed a stabbing, he would probably rush to soothe the disturbed psyche of the attacker while leaving the victim bleeding out on the ground.

According to the NY Post, Soros has been quite generous:

The Capital Research Center reported in January of this year that Soros has given more than $29 million to left-wing district attorney candidates through a network of political action committees. Other incumbents who have benefited from the largesse include Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, Kim Foxx in Cook County, Ill., Kim Gardner in St. Louis, and Kim Ogg in Harris County, Texas.

Here’s a rogue’s gallery of those he’s sent money to through his web of PACs: Los Angeles DA George Gascon, former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin (recalled), Cook County Illinois State’s Prosecutor Kim Foxx of Jussie Smollett fame, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, and more. There are horror stories associated with each one, as we at RedState have reported:

  • Gascon gave just five months probation to a drugged-out, paroled teen who mowed down a mother and baby in a stolen car;
  • Two El Monte officers were shot and killed by a gang-member out on a Gascon-arranged plea deal;
  • Alvin Bragg charged a bodega worker in Manhattan with murder after he defended himself in an attack, while the attacker’s girlfriend was not charged despite stabbing the employee three times;
  • The Chicago Bears just announced they are moving from downtown’s Soldier Field because of the constant shootings; and,
  • A veteran prosecutor in Kim Foxx’ office resigned with a scathing letter Friday, accusing the office of being “more concerned with political narratives and agendas than with victims and prosecuting violent crime.”

There are so many more stories of these prosecutors letting loose violent criminals and spitting in the face of victims that it would take up about five separate articles.

Yet Soros wants “justice.”

We need to invest more in preventing crime with strategies that work—deploying mental-health professionals in crisis situations, investing in youth job programs, and creating opportunities for education behind bars. This reduces the likelihood that those prisoners will commit new crimes after release.

That sounds all nice and “justice-y,” but how does releasing dangerous felons accomplish these goals?

In recent years, reform-minded prosecutors and other law-enforcement officials around the country have been coalescing around an agenda that promises to be more effective and just. This agenda includes prioritizing the resources of the criminal justice system to protect people against violent crime.

Yet another case of a Leftist claiming to deliver one thing while actually bringing about the exact opposite. Not only do these Soros prosecutors fail to prioritize violent crime and its victims, but they have also actively sought to drive up crime rates. The shoo-in for a Bond villain counters:

Some politicians and pundits have tried to blame recent spikes in crime on the policies of reform-minded prosecutors. The research I’ve seen says otherwise. The most rigorous academic study, analyzing data across 35 jurisdictions, shows no connection between the election of reform-minded prosecutors and local crime rates.

What an effective argument! But wait… what’s missing? The name of the research paper he’s supposedly citing, or even one statistic. In any case, I don’t need a research paper to know what I’m seeing—I have two eyes and a brain, and what I’m seeing is staggering crime and tragedy and it just so happens to be on a massive upswing since Defund the Police and woke prosecutors came into fashion. I don’t need to be a Rhodes scholar to figure out what’s going on.

Soros concludes with what sounds more like a threat than an offering of hope:

This is why I have supported the election (and more recently the re-election) of prosecutors who support reform. I have done it transparently, and I have no intention of stopping. The funds I provide enable sensible reform-minded candidates to receive a hearing from the public. Judging by the results, the public likes what it’s hearing.

No, George, the public does not like what’s hearing, and that is why San Franciscans recalled whacko DA Chesa Boudin and why voters are desperately trying to get rid of George Gascon. I’m also pretty sure that the dozens of people shot every weekend in Chicago don’t like what they’re seeing.

The American justice system shouldn’t be for sale to the highest bidder.

More Pain for Progressive DAs: Veteran Chicago Prosecutor Destroys State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in Resignation Letter

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Veteran prosecutor Jim Murphy resigned from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office Friday, blasting his boss Kim Foxx in an office-wide letter on the way out:

I cannot continue to work for an Administration I no longer respect.

I would love to continue to fight for the victims of crime and to continue to stand with each of you, especially in the face of the overwhelming crime that is crippling our communities.

I wish I could stay. However, I can no longer work for this Administration. I have zero confidence in leadership.

Wow, how do you really feel, Jim?

State’s Attorney Foxx, you may remember, was the prosecutor during the infamous Jessie Smollett hoax. We’ll circle back to that in a minute, but Murphy, an Assistant State’s Attorney and a 25-year veteran prosecutor, described an understaffed office that was “more concerned with political narratives and agendas than with victims and prosecuting violent crime.” (A state’s attorney functions much the same as a district attorney; it’s just how some states define the title. In this case, Foxx is the head prosecutor for Cook County, which includes the city of Chicago.)

Here’s Murphy’s letter in full:

Per the Chicago Sun-Times:

Murphy, who could not be reached directly for comment, zeroed in on many of the issues that have made Foxx a target of opponents who argue she’s gone easy on some accused of violent crimes, as carjackings and gun violence have risen in the Chicago area.

Murphy detailed many of his concerns in the letter, but his overall takeaway says it all:

Fairness. Accountability. Integrity. Respect. Collaboration. Those words should mean something. … Yet time after time after time, this Administration has shown that they don’t live the meaning of those words. Or they don’t care.

This isn’t the first time Foxx has been in the news for questionable decisions. Actor-in-more-ways-than-one Smollett—or as Tucker Carlson likes to call him, “Juicy Smollée”—claimed in 2019 that he was attacked by two white men wearing red MAGA hats in sub-zero weather at 2:00 A.M. in Chicago. Uh-huh. Got it.

The story was suspect from the moment it was reported, but a gullible media quickly jumped aboard, as did many politicians and celebrities. RedState had detailed coverage of events as they unfolded, but suffice it to say that the drama had many more twists and turns than Jussie’s since-cancelled TV show Empire. The short version of the saga is that it turns out that Foxx had ties to the Smollet family, and that even after he was found to have been lying about the entire affair, she dropped the charges against him and let him loose.  After public outcry, Special Prosecutor Dan Webb was brought in to investigate, and he found “substantial abuses of discretion and operational failures” in Foxx’ decisions. Code for: massive conflicts of interest and corruption.

The whole episode was an absolute embarrassment for Foxx, the city of Chicago, the media, and of course Smollett himself, yet somehow Foxx managed to survive in her position.

We at RedState have been highly critical of “progressive” prosecutors, and for good reason. Progress to me implies that things improve, but the opposite has happened under the watches of woke district attorneys like LA’s George Gascon (facing a potential recall), former SF DA Chesa Boudin (recalled), Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg, and yes, Cook County’s Kim Foxx. We criticize them because they are destroying our cities by letting criminals go free, ignoring victims of crime, and continually putting their political agendas above actual justice. Each one of those mentioned is bankrolled by billionaire George Soros, whose mission, it seems, is to destroy our country.

Good on you, Jim Muphy, for being yet another voice shouting out that these charlatans must be removed from office before more death and tragedy can be attributed to their reigns.