Posted on 07/13/2023 2:32:27 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Former US President Donald Trump was under fire on Thursday over a campaign fundraising email depicting the Jewish financier and philanthropist George Soros as a puppet master controlling the Biden Administration from the shadows.
A crude graphic dispatched to supporters from Trump’s campaign to return to the White House in 2024 showed the 92-year-old Soros with an outstretched hand dangling Biden from a set of puppet strings. An accompanying text had Biden saying, “I thought when I got to be President, I’d get to give orders. But, I take more orders than I ever did.” A large Chinese flag is placed in the background behind Soros.
While the graphic contains no obviously Jewish images or symbols, Jewish groups and several commentators pointed out that the display is essentially a “dog whistle” — invoking age-old antisemitic tropes about shadowy Jewish control of finance and media through the person of one of the best-known Jewish financiers in the world. Soros, who survived the Nazi Holocaust as a child, has increasingly become a central hate figure for nationalist conservatives around the world, particularly in his native Hungary, where the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long promoted the anti-Soros campaign now being emulated by Trump.
In a tweet responding to the Soros image, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described it as not “just disturbing, it’s indisputably dangerous and reprehensible.”
Let’s be clear, these are antisemitic tropes about Jewish power and are a gateway into hardcore antisemitic conspiracy theories,” the ADL declared, noting as well that the Trump campaign continues to send fundraising emails “that feature language and imagery of George Soros controlling puppet strings and secret globalist cabals.”
Others commenting on the image included Alex Hearn — a British journalist and member of the group Labour Against Antisemitism (LAS), which has pushed back against antisemitism on the far left of the British Labour Party. Hearn argued that while criticism of Soros is not antisemitic per se, Trump’s graphic utilized “an idea popularized by the Nazis…’a secret shadow president behind the curtain pulling the strings’.” In a further tweet that showed the image of Soros alongside antisemitic caricatures from the previous century, Hearn commented: “It is the fantasy of the evil Jew secretly running the world by undermining countries. That is why it looks so similar to Nazi propaganda.”
Attacks on Soros and the alleged impact of his financial heft have been a regular feature of Trump’s campaign. A fundraising email sent in February decried Soros as a “left-wing billionaire” who “thinks he can single-handedly BUY Joe Biden’s second term.” The following month, an email from Trump appealed to “patriots“, claiming: “I’m now being ATTACKED for exposing George Soros and the millions and millions of dollars he’s spent to BUY the White House. But let me be perfectly clear: I WILL NOT BE SILENCED for calling out the billionaire puppeteer who has wreaked havoc on our borders, our justice system and our nation.”
While Trump’s term in office was marked by an unabashedly pro-Israel policy that included moving the US Embassy in the Jewish state from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, his association with far right figures and willingness to adopt far right memes has alarmed many in the Jewish community. Last November, Jewish groups including the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) slammed Trump for hosting the antisemitic hip-hop mogul Kanye West and his sidekick Nick Fuentes, an outspoken Holocaust denier, at his Mar a Lago resort in Florida.
In 2019 — three years before his meeting with Trump — Fuentes used the “analogy” of “baked cookies” to dispute the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
“How long would it take you to make 6 million? Hmm, I don’t know, it certainly wouldn’t be five years, right? The math doesn’t seem to add up…. I don’t think you’d result in 6 million, maybe 200,000-300,000 cookies,” he said.
Donald Trump is a Nazi isn’t that the real “Conspiracy Theory”?
You didn't have to be a practicing Jew to be rounded up by the Nazis. But to keep yourself from being collected, all you needed was to have someone provide you with forged papers to keep your Jewish heritage a secret, while you worked for the Reich, robbing Jews for the Nazis, and probably pocketing enough while you were doing it.
Trump wasn’t attacking Jews in general. He was attacking Soros’ political activities, which I, for one, have trouble understanding. Trump has continuously been accused of all sorts of things, so the Nazi thing doesn’t surprise me.
Most don’t know he is a financier, like Rothschild. So it fails as a trope.
No, I’d say he’s more like Blofeld or Emperor Palpatine.
I’d hate to be in the shoes of Gyorgy boy when he stands before God to be judged.
And he has no feelings of guilt over it! He is truly an evil excuse for a man.
I would be convinced too.
Soros is using ordinary Jews as ideological human shields.
No Dathan turned on his fellow Hebrews and became Chief Hebrew Overseer.
Soros is an enemy of man-kind. Anyone who thinks we should go easy on him because he’s Jewish is an accomplice. Trump’s son-in-law and grandkids are Jewish, for crying out loud.
Yes, it would appear that the ADL does HATE conservatives that much. So much so,that they stand up for a NAZI who sent Jews off to the DEATH CAMPS!
And since Georgie was a Nazi in his youth ...
Soros also is a major player behind the legalised drugs initiative. Get everyone on drugs and let criminals loose and your civilization collapses.
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, as recognized by President Trump.
He's got all things right.
Then we treat him as one! Nuremberg 2.0!
I read that Soros and his father worked for the Nazis doing inventories of the possessions taken from the homes of Jews who were put on the trains to their exterminations.
It's that "one drop of blood", that made a quadroon, whose skin was paler than most 100% Caucasians, a black" person.
Georgi Schwartz is a Nazi collaborator and Satanist. That he was born Jewish is irrelevant.
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