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Far left-wing billionaire George Soros on Thursday predicted that Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will beat former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primaries, prompting the former president to run as a third-party candidate, the Washington Examiner reported.
In January, however, the Washington Examiner reported that a George Soros-backed immigration nonprofit group that is suing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and supports open borders has run afoul of a federal disclosure law.
Alianza Americas alleged in a September lawsuit against DeSantis that he “intentionally targeted” illegal immigrants upon Florida’s government flying them to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the Washington Examiner reported. That same organization, which has raked in over $1.5 million from Soros’s Open Society Foundations, has failed to provide the Washington Examiner its 2021 tax forms within the 30-day period required under IRS rules.
At the 2023 Munich Security Conference, Soros said, “This could induce Trump, whose narcissism has turned into a disease, to run as a third-party candidate. This would lead to a Democratic landslide and force the Republican Party to reform itself,” the Washington Examiner reported. Bloomberg reported that Soros said that Trump has turned into a “pitiful figure continually bemoaning his loss in 2020. Big Republican donors are abandoning him in droves.”
In a wide-ranging speech, Soros ripped Trump’s presidency and complemented elements of DeSantis’s style. “DeSantis is shrewd, ruthless, and ambitious,” said Soros, according to the Washington Examiner reported and added that, “He is likely to be the Republican candidate.”
As an international financier and philanthropist, Soros contributes millions of dollars into political races and committees, the Washington Examiner reported. He heads a global left-wing network of groups that advocate on such issues as climate change, financial reform, and fundamental reforms to the criminal system.
Reports indicated that Soros recently joined forces with fellow billionaire Charles Koch and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to revive the fledgling ran nuclear deal, the Examiner reported.
Soros is not alone in his predictions about Trump and his political future. Those in mainstream GOP circles have opined that if Trump should lose the party nomination for the presidency in 2024, then the former president will opt to run as a third party candidate. This is a source of serious concern for Republicans who want to take back the White House in 2024 because as history has proven, third party candidates usually draw votes away from the other candidate in the race whose politics is close to theirs, as was mentioned in the report. That would translate into a Trump candidacy that would significantly reduce the number of votes that that Republican nominee would normally get.
Should such a scenario unfold, this would make the Democratic party quite happy.
Most national polls show Trump beating all GOP challengers by large margins, the Washington Examiner reported. However, in early voting states, notably Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s DeSantis who leads many, the report continued.
In his address at the Munich Security Conference, Soros made it abundantly clear that he does not like Trump or what he stood for and believes that the former president was a threat to democracy, the Washington Examiner reported.
“Trump is a deeply flawed character, a confidence trickster whose narcissism grew into a disease. He feels no commitment to democracy; democracy merely provides him with a stage on which to perform. As president, he was more interested in hobnobbing with dictators than in promoting democratic principles,” said Soros. He added that, “Trump’s role model was Putin, who amassed a fortune while asserting total control over his country.”
He twisted many of Trump’s successful policies into liberal talking points despite evidence that many, including tax cuts, the appointment of conservative judges, and election reform initiatives, have proven extraordinarily successful, the Washington Examiner reported.
“Trump attracted a lot of non-educated white followers, but his biggest backers were the mega-rich — and he certainly delivered for them. First, he cut their taxes. Second, he nominated to the Supreme Court ideologues who embraced an extreme version of the Republican agenda. Third, he brought the Republican Party under his control by threatening those who didn’t swear loyalty to him with a challenge in the primaries,” Soros said, as was reported by the Washington Examiner.
“Lastly, he encouraged Republican-controlled states to introduce outrageous measures of voter suppression to ensure that his party would remain in power indefinitely. With that program, he was almost reelected in 2020,” he added.
