Why Trump is going for Soros
The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon
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A NEW YORK judge famously said that a good prosecutor could “get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich”. Should US President Donald Trump be sincere in saying the 95-year-old George Soros is a bad man who belongs in jail, a flimsy indictment can surely be arranged.
It is worth pondering that last line. Any doubts that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is Trump’s private revenge vehicle were dispelled last week with James Comey’s indictment. Prosecution of the former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director was publicly demanded by Trump. A season of Washington show trials may now be getting under way.
Soros would be the cherry on Trump’s cake. Unlike others in his sights – such as Mark Milley, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff; Jack Smith, Joe Biden’s former special counsel; and Letitia James, New York’s attorney-general – the president has not directly clashed with Soros. The financier’s prosecutorial value is greater than that; he is detested by strongmen everywhere and seen as the Antichrist on the Maga (Make America Great Again) right.
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