“Paid for by Soros”
The president of the United States.
The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don’t fall for it! Also, look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love! #Troublemakers
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2018
Anti-Semitic trope and personal targeting, from the president of the United States. Just another Friday.
Good Lord. He’s gone Full InfoWars. This appears to be first time the President of the United States has mentioned George Soros in a tweet, Soros being the legendary boogeyman for the right wing who supposedly funds any and every liberal protest, advertisement, campaign, and potluck. (Just this week, a writer with the National Review—considered a Very Serious right-wing publication—tried to link Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez to Soros. It turned out he was completely wrong and he had to apologize.) Soros does have some remarkable reach—he’s known for “breaking” the British pound and making $1 billion in a month off the deal—but this is just nonsense.
(Meanwhile, the Twitterati have already pointed out the bone-crushing hypocrisy here: that way back in 2015, Donald Trump’s campaign launch event—the one where he announced Mexico was sending criminals and “rapists” to our country, at least a year before most Beltway Pundits acknowledged he was a demagogue running on racial resentment—was full of actors he’d paid to be there. The anatomy of a scam.)
Meanwhile today’s vote is a yes on Kavanaugh.
Everything is clear now. We will have two sex offenders on the Supreme Court deciding on women’s right to abortion.
— Barbara Ehrenreich (@B_Ehrenreich) October 5, 2018
That is correct. This is the first Trump tweet that has ever mentioned Soros.
I wonder which of his perceived enemies his brain had to off-load to make way for the new one?
OK, I obviously don’t spend enough time around anti-semites to know what their dog-whistles sound like – which part of Trump’s twit is the anti-semitic trope?
@ Karellen –
Mention of Soros is enough; he has become their standard bogeyman.
#3
Soros has become an entire ‘Elders of Zion’ compressed into one person.
John the Drunkard –
Well put.