The Media Research Center’s resident Sorosphobe, Joseph Vazquez, unleashed yet another anti-Soros tirade in an Oct. 3 post:
An eco-extremist group funded by leftist billionaire George Soros is turning from its typical climate change obsessions to launch an all out war against President Donald Trump.
The youth-led Sunrise Movement, which was funded with $2 million between 2019 and 2023 alone by Soros, “expanding its mission to battle ‘authoritarianism’ as the Trump administration targets left-leaning organizations and puts one of the group’s major funders [Soros] in the crosshairs,”according to The Intercept October 2.
The radical organization, which has become notorious for unlawful demonstrations and obstructions, was featured in a blockbuster Capital Research Center report detailing how Soros gave $80 million to fund pro-terrorist organizations like Sunrise. The CRC report served as the pretext for the Justice Department directing prosecutors to draft plans to investigate Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
“The group, now eight years old, has decided that it cannot continue to fight climate change without fighting Trump,” The Intercept summarized.
It appears Soros is getting a nice return on his investment in Sunrise by the group fighting Trump on his behalf. Sunrise Executive Director Aru Shiney-Ajay told The Intercept that “‘There is no serious way to think about stopping the climate crisis under a fascist government.’” She continued: “‘The path to climate lies through getting rid of the authoritarian government we’re in.’” If that sounds like it came straight out of the Antifa lexicon, it’s because it does.
Vazquez thought it enhanced his credibility to include this:
MRC Business, in partnership with Bongino Report, also released a months-long investigation into Soros’s bankrolling of the global climate change movement in the U.S. and abroad. For Sunrise, which MRC and Bongino Report profiled, engaging in wanton disruption and chaos is its modus operandi.
Vazquez’s reference to the Bongino Report is actually just a reference to employee Matt Palumbo, who is best known for serving as a paid propagandist for corrupt Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui.
Vazquez had another Soros meltdown in an Oct. 13 post, carrying the all-caps headline “MALODOROUS”:
The New York Times scrambled to run cover for leftist billionaire George Soros after a groundbreaking report exposing his pro-terrorism funding served as the pretext for the Justice Department launching an investigation into his Open Society Foundations (OSF).
The Times tried October 10 to attack the Capital Research Center’s investigative report showing that Soros had funneled at least $80 million into “groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence” both in the U.S. and abroad. The headline: “Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism.”
One heavily Soros-funded group, Al-Haq, is “a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the West Bank” that has been “long accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union and the United States designate as a foreign terrorist organization.” But The Times picked an obvious strawman and went to town with it by claiming the report “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.”
That’s not how investigations work, and the neanderthal-brains at the ironically-dubbed newspaper of record know this. Investigations involve compiling evidence before a criminal case can be built. The CRC report is just one piece in a larger puzzle.
At the very least, the CRC report warrants an investigation to determine at a minimum whether OSF violated the tenets of its tax-exempt status, or whether an actual crime was committed at maximum. But The Times knowingly flipped the script and made it seem like a crime had to be clear-cut prima facie before any investigation can proceed.
We’ve documented how the CRC report is filled with dubious accusations seemingly designed to support a Trump administration investigation, as Vazquez demands. Indeed, both Vazquex and his favorite dubious CRC “researcher” appeared on Tim Graham’s podcast the next day to promote their questionable conspiracy theories:
One of the ironies of the left is they boast about backing democracy and then support people who despise Western civilization in its entirety. Since 2016, George Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF), now run with his son Alexander, has poured over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence.
Ryan Mauro of the Capital Research Center and Joseph Vazquez of MRC Business discuss the Soros family has supported a violent far-left fringe, including terrorists both foreign and domestic.
Again, no fact-checking was done of Mauro’s attacks. Instead, Graham huffed that “The New York Times wrote a story complaining that Mauro’s report was being used by the Justice Department to spur investigations into Soros backing disorder.” That claim was not disputed.