Trump “INDICATED”

Created
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 00:00
Updated
Sat, 01/04/2023 - 00:00
It’s George Soros, insist anti-Semites The Net is awash in speculation since the announcement Thursday afternoon that New York District attorney Alvin Bragg indicted former reality TV star, MAGA cult leader, and insurrection instigator Donald Trump. (Did we mention he was once President of the United States, twice impeached?) The indictment remains sealed until next week, meaning specific criminal charges are not public. Until then, we will endure the endless what ifs and what nows of punditry required to fill web pages and air space on 24-hour cable news. A U.S. president has been indicted! It’s the first time! Smells like a new car! It’s all a plot “FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS,” dontcha know. The 92-year-old, Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor and Jewish billionaire-philanthropist is so peripatetic in conservative lore that they see him hiding in more woodpiles than Commies during the height of the Cold War. Buried under the banner headlines is the shameless anti-Semitism on display by Trump and his defenders. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Fox News are so busy hyping the investigation as a dastardly, deep-state plot funded by Soros that they’ve almost forgotten to point out to MAGites that “Soros-backed” Bragg is, you know, Black. It’s worse than nonsense. After the slaughter of Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, if the party that all but bears Trump’s name in gold letters had any conscience, it would drop that…