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Government Corruption
Trump orders DOJ to target Soros-funded group as prosecutors eye indictments for Comey and Letitia James
2025-09-26
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Multiple U.S. attorney's offices are drafting plans to investigate a grant-making group funded by billionaire Democrat donor George Soros, a new report reveals.

A directive instructs prosecutors in at least a half dozen offices to consider charging the group with 'support for terrorism.'

It comes the day after multiple media outlets confirmed that indictments are impending for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office sent the directive, obtained by the New York Times, instructing offices to target another of President Donald Trump's political enemies.

It was communicated to U.S. attorney's offices in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit and Maryland.

The directive suggests prosecutors consider a wide range of charges against Soros-funded Open Society Foundations including racketeering, arson, wire fraud and material support for terrorism.

The group denounced the accusations as 'politically motivated attacks on civil society, meant to silence speech the administration disagrees with and undermine the First Amendment right to free speech,' in a statement to the Daily Mail.

'When power is abused to take away the rights of some people, it puts the rights of all people at risk,' the group insisted.

Aakash Singh, the lawyer in Blanche's office responsible for communicating with federal prosecutors around the country, pointed to a recent report by conservative watchdog group Capital Research Center as a basis for the claims.

The report says that Soros's group has 'poured over $80 million into groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence.' One example the it noted was Open Society Foundations funneling money to Palestinian human rights group al-Haq, which Israel claimed in 2022 was a front for terrorist activity.

Capital Research Center monitors liberal money movements in politics.

Singh asked prosecutors in multiple jurisdictions to determine if the allegations in the conservative report are enough to justify opening criminal cases.

And the directive tells U.S. attorneys to prepare to submit their investigative plans soon.

Open Society Foundations maintains that it does not fund terrorism and said in a statement: 'Our activities are peaceful and lawful.'

Trump has said in the past that he wants Soros to be put behind bars.

After Charlie Kirk's political assassination earlier this month, the president singling out Soros's foundation and told NBC News that the mega donor is 'a bad guy' who 'should be put in jail.'

His remarks echoed an August social media post where Trump said Soros and his son should be charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which is usually used to prosecute mafia figures.

Meanwhile, Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to act quickly in seeking criminal charges against former FBI Director Comey and the New York AG James – both longtime nemeses of the president.

Trump fired Comey in 2017 and multiple investigations have followed him since.

He's expected to be indicted in 'coming days' for lying to Congress about authorizing a leak from the FBI that led to inception of the investigation into Russia colluding with Trump tin influence the 2016 presidential election.

Meanwhile, James has been the center of Trump's ire after she brought several cases against him and his businesses in New York.

Grand juries in the Eastern District of Virginia could soon be asked to vote on proposed indictments in cases against Comey for allegedly lying to Congress and James for suspected mortgage fraud in the state.
Zero Hedge adds:
Here's the task force's strategy:

Investigations (led by JTTFs)
  • Probe recruitment, radicalization, conspiracies against rights, and politically motivated violence.

Target:
  • Funders, officers, employees aiding extremist activity.

  • NGOs, foreign-linked entities violating FARA or engaging in illicit financing. Coordinate across DOJ, DHS, Treasury, and law enforcement.

Prosecution
  • DOJ to prosecute all related federal crimes to fullest extent, incl.: Assaulting federal officers, conspiracy, solicitation, money laundering, terrorism financing, arson, RICO, and fraud.

  • Prioritize crimes like organized doxing, swatting, rioting, looting, and intimidation.

Financial Disruption
  • Treasury to trace and block funding streams via TFI office.

  • IRS to ensure no tax-exempt groups finance political violence.

  • Financial institutions to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).

Law Enforcement Strategy
  • Use organized crime disruption tactics to dismantle violent networks.

  • Mandate interrogation of suspects about organizational and funding ties.

Designations
  • DOJ empowered to recommend designating groups as domestic terrorist organizations under 18 U.S.C. 2331(5).

National Priority
  • DOJ and DHS to designate domestic terrorism as a national priority area with funding and grants to support law enforcement.

What the Trump administration is up against, as explained by civil terrorism expert Jason Curtis Anderson, is the alarming rise in far-left militancy as "nihilistic accelerationism," only suggesting that "Far-left extremism extends far beyond groups like Antifa. There is an entire revolutionary (marxist) ecosystem of interconnected entities: billion-dollar progressive NGOs, anarchist networks, political organizations such as the DSA, foreign influence operations like the Singham network, gaming platforms, Discord servers and reddit threads, the dark web, and even civil-rights organizations staffed with "movement lawyers" fully dedicated to waging war against the West until it collapses."

The NGO world is absolutely terrified. Their ability to sow chaos, subvert the nation, and attempt a collapse of capitalism for a socialist reconstruction is being disrupted. The only problem is that their woke warriors - like the one we saw earlier this week at the ICE facility in Texas - will only become even more activated by the "fascist" and "Nazi" rhetoric pumped out by Democratic Party leaders, suggesting the violence is far from over.

The Soros response: Soros Foundation Fires Back At NYT Report: We "Don't Fund Terrorism"
Related:
Open Society Foundations: 2025-09-20 New: Soros Dumps Big Cash Into California Redistricting Effort — RedState
Open Society Foundations: 2025-09-15 White House Plans Security Boost On Civil Terrorism Fears As FBI Investigates Revolutionary Leftist Groups In Kirk Assassination
Open Society Foundations: 2025-09-10 ‘L’chaim Intifada’: New Jewish group spurns anti-Zionist JVP as insufficiently radical
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