As former President Donald Trump lashed out online ahead of a looming possible indictment, he slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg this past Saturday in an all-caps Truth Social post for being "FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS."
In the post, Trump went on to call Bragg "corrupt" and "highly political," and pointed to an increase in violent crime in New York under the DA's watch.
On Thursday morning, he took another all-caps strike at Bragg, writing that the criminal case against him should be dropped.
"HE IS A SOROS BACKED ANIMAL WHO JUST DOESN'T CARE ABOUT RIGHT OR WRONG NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE HURT," he e-shouted at his followers.
Within two hours, the post had more than 12,000 likes.
Soros, a billionaire Jewish philanthropist, has for decades been the target of right-wing rhetoric stemming from age-old antisemitic conspiracy theories that Jews have undue global influence and power.
To be clear, there is no evidence that George Soros has donated to Bragg. Right-wing claims that the district attorney is controlled by Soros are false. Trump's claims are likely based on the fact that a group Soros does fund — an arm of the nonprofit Color of Change — has donated to Bragg, though none of those...
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