Soros Dark Money Hub Spending Millions to Defund Police
George Soros, the left-wing billionaire known for his support of socialist and globalist causes, put millions of dollars behind a far-left money hub used by activists to push efforts aimed at dismantling the police.
A search of Soros’ Open Society Foundations’ grant database showed that the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a nonprofit within Soros’ network, gave $3 million to the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability (CRH) in 2020.
CRH compiles resources for local leftist activists in order to help them make transformative change to the criminal justice system. That includes materials on abolishing and defunding the police.
Out of the $3 million in Soros money, $2 million went to creating a “budgeting Academy program” to “train community safety advocates in how to advocate around their local municipal budgets,” according to grants. The remaining $1 million was used for general support.
In 2019, Soros’ nonprofit gave the resource center $1.9 million, out of which $500,000 was spent on establishing the hub, per tax forms.
Soros’ support of CRH is one of many ways the Hungarian-born investor has used his money to reshape local policing. For years, Soros has put money in district attorney races, typically supporting the most left-wing candidates. And his wide network of nonprofits has put hundreds of millions of dollars toward causes such as “racial equality” and “criminal justice reform.”
One of Soros’ longtime initiatives has been to elect progressive prosecutors in localities throughout the country.
“These are little-noticed offices; you don’t have to spend very much money to get elected to a prosecutors’ office,” Charles Fain Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told Fox News.
“When you do, you have an enormous influence over who actually gets prosecuted and charged with crimes,” Lehman said. “You can rule out whole classes of crimes of meriting prosecution.”
Parker Thayer, who works as a researcher at the Capital Research Center, estimates that Soros has pumped $28 million into prosecutor races since 2015.
Hungary would like to get their hands on Soros, as he did lots of war crimes back when.
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