It’s been a while since we last checked in on the Media Research Center’s dirty war on George Soros, and you will not be surprised to learn that it has not stopped. hief Soros-hater Joseph Vazquez cheered lawfare against Soros in an Aug. 27 post:
President Donald Trump appears to have finally drawn a line in the sand against the radical leftist, anti-American political chaos machine that George Soros has fueled with his ungodly billions over the years.
Trump took to Truth Social August 27 to publicly lambast the leftist billionaire and called for criminal charges to be filed against him: “George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son [Alex], should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America.”
The president continued: “We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to “BREATHE,” and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country!” Trump then issued a warning to Soros and his cohorts: “Be careful, we’re watching you!”
Trump’s allegations against Soros are not without basis. It was discovered that Soros had fueled at least $7,610,000 into the unhinged Indivisible Project, which was responsible for organizing the infamous “No Kings Protests” along with other leftist orgs where some had devolved into violence.
Vazquez did not explain how “some” had devolved into “all.” He then pretended that the Soros organization was lying:
The Open Society Foundations, true to form, claimed deniability for the actions or initiatives of its grantees responsible for the protests. OSF retorted against Trump’s accusations in an X post: “The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros and chaired by Alex Soros, do not support or fund violent protests. Allegations to the contrary are false, and the threats against our founder and chair are outrageous. Our mission is to advance human rights, justice, and democratic principles in the United States and around the world.”
This, however, is OSF’s modus operandi: Give money to extremists, then look the other way and deflect responsibility when the funding directly or indirectly supports nefarious actions perpetrated by its grantees. As Bongino Report content manager and Soros researcher Matt Palumbo put it, “You can’t give money to an arsonist and then feign surprise when he uses it to fund fires.”
You might remember Palumbo as the paid propagandist for criminal Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, which doesn’t exactly help his already shady reputation as a content manager for right-wing radio host (and onetime FBI official) Bongino. Vazquez concluded by huffing;
At the very least, the Soros machine’s connections to the protests warrant investigation, given the enormous anti-American, pro-criminal network it oversees. If any explicit criminal activity is in fact discovered — well — as the lefty media repeatedly reminded conservatives: “No one is above the law.”
Vazquez unleashed another tirade in a Sept. 15 post:
The president of the leftist magazine The Nation Bhaskar Sunkara was up in arms over Vice President J.D. Vance’s connection of his publication to billionaire George Soros during a recent TV appearance. The reality: Vance was hovering over the target, and Sunkara was being blatantly deceptive.
Sunkara railed against Vance in an X post for saying Soros “funds” The Nation: “I’m not sure where he’s getting his information, but JD Vance is lying about The Nation magazine.” He continued, claiming unequivocally that “we’re not funded, not one dime, by Soros or Open Society Foundation.”
Here’s the deception: Up until 2019, The Nation was directly affiliated with the nonprofit media outfit The Nation Institute, which had in fact received at least $1,349,000 from Soros’s organizations between 2004 and 2019, according to Foundation Directory Online data. In January 2019, it was announced that The Nation Institute was officially rebranding to become the Type Media Center to expand beyond its connections to the magazine.
Vazquez went on to insist that a connection that is at least six years old remains relevant:
Should we just pretend this connection doesn’t exist? After all, Soros has continued to fund the Center long after the rebrand. His most recent grant to the Center was in 2022 and amounted to $150,000 to “build a more equitable future in the field of public interest journalism by strengthening publishing and independent media.”
One 2018 $60,000 grant from Soros, was intended “to provide support for the editorial director fellowship, which will enhance the Nation Institute’s ability to undertake and support activities with emphasis on the independent media, civil liberties, social justice and peace.”
Either Sunkara doesn’t understand the concept of money being fungible or he knew all of this and pretended that one degree of separation between his publication and Soros meant definitively that “not one dime” has circulated through the magazine.
Then again, the MRC has repeatedly insisted that federal money to Planned Parenthood was “fungible” because it could supposedlly be used to pay for abortions (spoiler: it can’t).
Vazquez followed up the next day:
Politico’s knee-jerk reaction to trust but not verify leftist magazine The Nation’s retort to Vice President J.D. Vance’s connection of the latter to billionaire George Soros is the epitome of what happens when journalists let Trump Derangement rot their brains so much they throw ethics to the wind.
During his guest-host appearance for the Charlie Kirk Show September 15, Vance argued that Soros “funds” The Nation, which drew the ire of the magazine’s president Bhaskar Sunkara, who falsely accused him of “lying” in an X post. “[W]e’re not funded, not one dime, by Soros or Open Society Foundation,” Sunkara railed.
Politico White House reporter Irie Sentner mindlessly regurgitated Sunkara’s deceptive dismissal in his September 15 write-up of Vance’s comments: “The magazine said in a statement that it has never received support from Soros or Open Society and is not currently funded by the Ford Foundation. It dismissed the broader criticism.”
But as MRC Business research showed, Sunkara was being blatantly deceptive.
Vazquez didn’t explain how, exactly, it was “blatantly deceptive” for Sunkara to declare that Soros money hasn’t supported The Nation for a good six years, except for this lame defense: “Effectively, the evidence suggests that Sunkara was treating the one degree of separation between his magazine and Soros as definitive proof that his publication didn’t get ‘one dime’ from Soros.” Still, the fact remains that the magazine has not taken Soros money since 2019 — something Vazquez clearly does not want to admit.
It was Alex Christy’s turn to parrot this narrative in a Sept. 17 post:
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes used his Tuesday All In show to look back to Monday when Vice President JD Vance guest-hosted The Charlie Kirk Show after Kirk was brutally assassinated. As Hayes tells it, Vance was echoing anti-Semitic ideas when he criticized an article in The Nation because that outlet is funded by George Soros.
Hayes tried to argue that Vance’s reliance on the article in question fails to show a vast left-wing conspiracy to commit acts of political violence, “And in the complete absence of any evidence of any vast plots. Vance, instead, singled out an opinion column published by The Nation that criticized Kirk’s cultural legacy while also condemning the violence that killed him.”
Christy pretended to be appalled that the accusation of anti-Semitism, in the form of Vance’s attack on Soros, was turned against Vance:
We’re supposed to believe that because Vance criticized a specific Jewish individual’s political activity, he was flirting with Jewish money tropes. That is, of course, ridiculous. It is completely understandable why a man with an Indian wife and biracial children would be angry at an article accusing his murdered friend of being an “unrepentant racist.”
For his part, Hayes was reduced to using a reductio ad Orbanum, “Those words echo a lot of what Viktor Orban in Hungary has said, as he has gone after George Soros and independent institutions of civil society. I mean, that’s the vice president of the United States grossly mischaracterizing an article he seemed not to read, spinning it into part of a vast and false conspiracy, saying there’s no unity with the other side.”
Christy went on to grumble that “Hayes omits the part of Vance’s podcasting duties where he said not even two minutes earlier, ‘We can thank God that most Democrats don’t share these attitudes, and I do.'” He didn’t explain how that supposedly made Vance’s attack on Soros any better.