As usual, they blame George Soros. I don’t know if even Soros has enough money to finance all of the protests Republicans claim he does. They are unwilling to accept the idea that people disagree with them on the issues – they think they have to get paid to object. Then there’s the anti-Semitism aspect but we already knew that many of these people were bigots. That’s disgusting.
This is the first time Trump has said “Soros” on Twitter. (Fox News and Breitbart have been running stories about how Soros has donated to a liberal organization co-run by one of the sexual assault survivors who confronted Jeff Flake.) pic.twitter.com/a4X9bdHTgP
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 5, 2018
ICYMI –> No, George Soros isn’t paying Kavanaugh protesters https://t.co/L4WavSTWig
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 6, 2018
Let's be clear here: Charles Grassley is a United States Senator. He is responsible for his words. And his words here amount to an anti-Semitic smear. https://t.co/MXINMHkL9J
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) October 5, 2018
Trump, who paid people to attend his campaign launch, dismisses Kavanaugh opponents as paid protestors. https://t.co/Uc28u5goCv
— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 5, 2018
"Do you believe George Soros is behind all of this?" — @MariaBartiromo
"I have heard so many people believe that. I tend to believe it." — @ChuckGrassley
Just over an hour later, @realDonaldTrump tweeted it. https://t.co/jjnRaLW8ol
— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) October 5, 2018
the “soros-funded protesters” thing should be understood as both an anti-semitic dogwhistle and an attack on the idea of legitimate opposition itself, a tactic imported from european far-right parties
— jamelle g-g-ghoulie 👻 (@jbouie) October 5, 2018
I see this tweet is being criticized on the right. So: The notion that George Soros is stirring up artificial protest is one of the biggest anti-Semitic tropes in the world today. A public official can’t claim it’s an innocent observation about someone who happens to be Jewish. https://t.co/SINrtAwhpm
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) October 5, 2018
I did not know, til just now, that all those moms and grandmothers I've seen heading to the Capitol on the Red Line with hand-written signs — Trader Joe's bags brimming with healthy snacks — were, in fact, Soros-paid professional protesters.
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) October 5, 2018
One thing about the lie that Kavanaugh protestors are Soros-funded: it's anti-Semitic and rejects the legitimacy of dissent. But it's also projection: This is in fact what Republicans have done, e.g. in the "Brooks brothers riot" against a Florida recount https://t.co/YlRrflk8hU
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 5, 2018
Being George Soros must be exhausting. I can barely manage *one* nefarious conspiracy at a time, and he’s doing *dozens*. In awe of his organisational skills tbh. https://t.co/7NCEXT9sKn
— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) October 5, 2018
Trump smears sexual assault survivors as “elevator screamers” paid by George Soros https://t.co/c33gr6b7Pz pic.twitter.com/bD0dVWVJQp
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 5, 2018
This is truly horrific. The Soros conspiracy theory is now a staple of anti-Semitic politics in Europe. A president of the United States should not want to be associated with it in any way. https://t.co/q2zIRBUH9w
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) October 5, 2018
Who knew Soros had any money left after paying literally millions of marchers on January 20 and 21 of last year. https://t.co/49rvjstAW1
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 5, 2018
Soros comments aside: Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is being backed for millions and millions of dollars in secret "dark money" through the pro-Kavanaugh Judicial Crisis Network. $17 million dollars in "dark money" was spent to back Gorsuch by JCN. https://t.co/pRVODsAzIq
— andrew kaczynski🧐 (@KFILE) October 5, 2018
It’s almost as though there is a connection. pic.twitter.com/8QWCf8aX0f
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 6, 2018
A retweet by the president’s attorney @RudyGiuliani pic.twitter.com/BA691mbuU0
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 6, 2018
The president may have reached a personal worst today, Richard Cohen writes https://t.co/Lku1E3352a
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) October 5, 2018
With respect: you are objectively wrong on this.
Soros is an explicit tool of openly anti-Semitic actors in the US, Russia, Hungary. There is no comparable positioning of the Kochs by racists. https://t.co/gd33lObXTf
— Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) October 6, 2018
and then there are the pro-Kavanaugh folks
What? Not Soros? https://t.co/eAxNd8HE26
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 6, 2018
There are lots of regular women for Kavanaugh, but the official Women for Kavanaugh people have been handed matching shirts from the Concerned Women for America, an advocacy group that has received millions in Koch money. pic.twitter.com/HiaMWA6lEg
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 6, 2018
This one doesn’t mention Soros but it fits in with the theme of paid protestors. The Republican senators don’t understand their views are those of a minority, not the majority.
It’d be insane for a sitting US senator to assert that these protesters — many of whom claimed to be sexual assault victims — were in fact crisis actors paid to pretend that.
I can’t wait to see your evidence for this conspiracy theory. Please, do tell. https://t.co/hd9IOPv1Na
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) October 6, 2018
Trump continues promoting a lunatic conspiracy theory with anti-Semitic overtones (previously claiming Soros paid protesters), now suggesting the paid protesters were unpaid because they protested visibly. Yet, it’s not a big story because we already know he’s an unhinged bigot. https://t.co/9loJKRDKts
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) October 9, 2018
fact-checked as false already —> https://t.co/X1aWdSWQIk https://t.co/8z5Pr00Lin
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 9, 2018
Again: Trump's campaign launch included paid attendees and the campaign didn't pay the firm that hired them for months. https://t.co/WsxJ5xe7Oo
— Philip Bump (@pbump) October 9, 2018
A "Fox and Friends" guest made what she later said was a joke about alleged paid protesters waiting for their checks.
Trump apparently took it seriously and tweeted it.https://t.co/h3NUx2fn9Z
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) October 9, 2018
As Trump tweets this morning again claiming anti-Kavanaugh protesters were paid, it's a good time to remind that Trump's campaign paid people $50 each to cheer for him at his presidential announcement in 2015. https://t.co/lzmehmlFjA
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 9, 2018
The real purpose of the paid protester lieThe real purpose of the paid protester lie
There’s Been a George Soros for Every Era of Anti-Semitic Panic https://t.co/fHOSdX5TX2 via @thedailybeast
— Nick Baumann (@NickBaumann) October 14, 2018
Sad! 