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Fox News cut off former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Wednesday after he brought up the role of billionaire left-wing financier George Soros in funding the election of left-wing prosecutors in local elections over the past several years.

Gingrich argued that the rise in crime in many Democrat-governed cities was partly the result of the election of left-wing district attorneys who had received financial assistance from George Soros.

But commentators Melissa Francis and Marie Harf attempted to silence Gingrich.

“Look, the number one problem in almost all these cities is George Soros-elected, left-wing, anti-police, pro-criminal district attorneys who refuse to keep people locked up,” Gingrich said. “Just yesterday they put somebody back on the streets who’s wanted for two different murders in New York City.”

He continued: “You cannot solve this problem — and both [Kamala] Harris and [Joe] Biden have talked very proudly out what they call ‘progressive district attorneys’. Progressive district attorneys are anti-police, pro-criminal, and overwhelmingly elected with George Soros’s money.

“And they’re a major cause of the violence we’re seeing because they keep putting the violent criminals back on the street,” Gingrich said.

“I’m not sure we need to bring George Soros into this,” Francis replied.

“He paid for it,” Gingrich, who was obviously taken aback by the interruption. “I mean, why can’t we discuss that fact that millions of dollars….”.

“No he didn’t,” Harf interjected. “I agree with Melissa. George Soros doesn’t need to be a part of this conversation.”

“Okay, so it’s verboten,” Gingrich said, using the German word for “forbidden.”

As Breitbart News reported in May 2018, Soros became involved in several local races for district attorney, in Northern California and around the nation. His goal was to defeat “law-and-order” candidates and elect “progressive” prosecutors.

The Los Angeles Times noted, in an article titled “Here’s why George Soros, liberal groups are spending big to help decide who’s your next D.A.”:

The effort is part of a years-long campaign by liberal groups to reshape the nation’s criminal justice system.

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Where law-and-order campaigns appeal to fear, the new strategy targets anger.

One issue that has caught fire is police shootings.

“It’s really coming from this Black Lives Matter moment of police accountability,” said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, criminal justice and drug policy director for the ACLU of California.

Much of the money remained “hidden,” funneled (presumably legally) through non-profit groups that did not have to disclose their donors.

It is therefore unknown precisely how many races Soros was involved in, though the Times reported that the number was at least 21. In many cases, Soros backed left-wing candidates against establishment Democrats.

Soros-backed prosecutors have played a role in several national controversies. They include Kim Foxx, the Chicago-area prosecutor who mishandled the Jussie Smollet hate crime hoax; Kim Garnder, the St. Louis prosecutor who charged the McCloskeys after they defended their home from a Black Lives Matter mob by standing outside with their guns; and Diana Becton, who has charged a California couple with a hate crime for painting over a “Black Lives Matter” mural on a public road.

In a 2018 essay about Soros in Tablet magazine, an online Jewish publication, James Kirchik noted that while some criticism of Soros is indeed antisemitic, some is not, and focuses on legitimate criticism of his role in funding the far left around the world.

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Fox News has drawn our attention to the fact that George Soros is bankrolling the leftist district attorneys who are fostering so much rioting in America’s blue cities, based on their refusal to prosecute looters and rioters. But probably not in the way they meant to.

Here’s what went down over at the semi-cheesy news commentary show called ‘Outnumbered’ whose format is a group of leggy women sitting on a circular sofa with some man in the news and grilling him with chick-like excited shouts and exclamations. It’s now a Zoom thing without the leg business. And in this case, it led to a very unexpected outcome: 

 

 

What an amazingly insulting way to treat a supposedly honored guest, a former Speaker of the House. Look at the shock on Newt’s face at that shutdown. They invited him on, they asked him his take on the leftist riots in America’s blue cities, and they got an answer: Gingrich pointed out that the  riots were happing because of district attorneys, financed by George Soros, who refuse to prosecute rioting.

It wasn’t really news. Nor was it controversial. It’s been reported in detail by conservative outfits for years. Fox News itself, news division, reported it. What was strange was that bizarrely unprofessional reaction from this one show, and from hosts that most viewers have trusted and respected, such as Harris Faulkner and Melissa Francis. The leftist flak for the Obama administration, Marie Harf, no journalist, could be dismissed, given that she is no stranger to boldfaced lying for her bosses to sing for her supper. But why was Francis the first to bring it up, only to have Harf as her growling dog backing her up with her absolutely adamant call not to engage Gingrich? What did he say that was so evil and un-fit for TV?  Note that Harf was unable to cite any reasons, she has none, she just wanted to play commissar censor and like all commissar censors, had a whiff of fear of those above her – note that booming, croaking, dead-toned angry adamant voice, like that of an upset socialite or desperate high school principal. Shut up, she explained. It really was remarkable. She really didn’t want any discussion or even mention of Soros. But why did Faulkner coolly move on after cutting Newt off?

The strange behavior of Francis and Faulkner actually drew more attention to the issue because we expected better. Had they not done that, the whole thing would have rolled out like water off a duck’s back, not news, easily forgotten, because, well, everyone knows it — they read it on Fox News.

What we didn’t know was that Fox News’s commentary show, at least one of them, maybe more, seems to be on some kind of mission to protect Soros from scrutiny, which is rather unfitting for a news outfit that calls itself ‘fair and balanced.’ Are they in hock to him? Does one of their board members have business ties to him? Are they under some kind of legal threat? Because how else can we explain the bizarre attempt by two respected anchors to gaslight us? They are trying to dismiss any scrutiny of Soros, and let’s face it, Newt put his finger on it, as something we can see with our own eyes, but they are effectively (and falsely in the case of Harf) saying it isn’t happening. It’s creepy, really. We didn’t know this about Fox News. Now we do.

Those district attorneys have largely been of far-left Daddy Warbucks George Soros financing far left candidates in district attorneys’ races across the country since 2015. Houston, Albuquerque, Chicago, races in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida, they’ve all gotten their cut. According to Capital Research:

Since 2015, he has spent more than $17 million on district attorney and other local races in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Arizona, but also in large, predominantly left-of-center states such as California and New York. In 2016, Soros dropped $2,000,000 into a single sheriff race in Maricopa County, Arizona, helping progressive candidate Paul Penzone win the election with ease over longtime incumbent Joe Arpaio. He has given millions of dollars in grants to candidates in several other counties as well.

These huge contributions often make it almost impossible for the other candidates to compete because district attorney elections are on such a small scale and the campaigns typically do not need to raise millions to run local ads and mobilize voters. Constituents are swamped with propaganda, and the opposing conservative candidates are victims of unfair character assassinations, such as defaming them as racists and white supremacists.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner got a $118,000 bagload in the wake of the Ferguson riots, and once elected, filed false and scurrilous charges against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitans, which were thrown out. In 2020, she got $78,000 from Daddy Warbucks. Rioters of course have since run free and but the McCloskeys, trying to defend their home, were prosecuted.  

Over in Chicago, State’s attorney Kim Foxx has been attacked by her city’s own mayor for her failure to prosecute rioters. She also was heavily involved in the Jussie Smollett racial hoax fiasco, something that had the fingerprints of Kamala Harris and other Democrats on it.

There’s some kind of power game going on. Democrats, through their control of the DA’s offices, can perpetuate and keep riots flowing until election day in a bid to make voters cry ‘uncle’ and vote for Joe Biden to make it stop. We often view Antifa as the instigator of this, or the trained Marxists of Black Lives Matter, and they certainly have a role. But they would never be able to do what they do without the connivance of the DAs who refuse to prosecute their violent crimes.

And Fox News, at least some parts of it, is covering the whole racket up.

Michelle Malkin has pointed out that they have shut down other truth-tellers about Soros, citing this case from 2018:

 

 

And it may or may not be related to the current protection racket going on to shield Soros, but ten years ago, Fox got rid of Glenn Beck, who also criticized Soros.

One thing we do know, is that Soros is powerful, and he uses his money to wield power. It might not just be the district attorneys that he controls, he might just control at least some of Fox News based on this strange exchange. That’s disturbing. We didn’t know this until this shutdown maneuver against Gingrich. Gingrich, who just wanted to please them, certainly didn’t either, based on his startled response.

Now we know. And now we’ve been reminded for sure that Soros is running the district attorney show, the very reason why the riots are continuing — because nobody is being prosecuted. 

Thanks, Fox News, for getting that out there and letting us know that someone doesn’t want us to know. Thanks for reminding us.

 

 

Image credit: World Economic Forum. swiss-image.ch/Photo by Sebastian Derungs // CC BY-SA 2.0. Processed with Graphite.

 

Fox News has drawn our attention to the fact that George Soros is bankrolling the leftist district attorneys who are fostering so much rioting in America’s blue cities, based on their refusal to prosecute looters and rioters. But probably not in the way they meant to.

Here’s what went down over at the semi-cheesy news commentary show called ‘Outnumbered’ whose format is a group of leggy women sitting on a circular sofa with some man in the news and grilling him with chick-like excited shouts and exclamations. It’s now a Zoom thing without the leg business. And in this case, it led to a very unexpected outcome: 

 

 

What an amazingly insulting way to treat a supposedly honored guest, a former Speaker of the House. Look at the shock on Newt’s face at that shutdown. They invited him on, they asked him his take on the leftist riots in America’s blue cities, and they got an answer: Gingrich pointed out that the  riots were happing because of district attorneys, financed by George Soros, who refuse to prosecute rioting.

It wasn’t really news. Nor was it controversial. It’s been reported in detail by conservative outfits for years. Fox News itself, news division, reported it. What was strange was that bizarrely unprofessional reaction from this one show, and from hosts that most viewers have trusted and respected, such as Harris Faulkner and Melissa Francis. The leftist flak for the Obama administration, Marie Harf, no journalist, could be dismissed, given that she is no stranger to boldfaced lying for her bosses to sing for her supper. But why was Francis the first to bring it up, only to have Harf as her growling dog backing her up with her absolutely adamant call not to engage Gingrich? What did he say that was so evil and un-fit for TV?  Note that Harf was unable to cite any reasons, she has none, she just wanted to play commissar censor and like all commissar censors, had a whiff of fear of those above her – note that booming, croaking, dead-toned angry adamant voice, like that of an upset socialite or desperate high school principal. Shut up, she explained. It really was remarkable. She really didn’t want any discussion or even mention of Soros. But why did Faulkner coolly move on after cutting Newt off?

The strange behavior of Francis and Faulkner actually drew more attention to the issue because we expected better. Had they not done that, the whole thing would have rolled out like water off a duck’s back, not news, easily forgotten, because, well, everyone knows it — they read it on Fox News.

What we didn’t know was that Fox News’s commentary show, at least one of them, maybe more, seems to be on some kind of mission to protect Soros from scrutiny, which is rather unfitting for a news outfit that calls itself ‘fair and balanced.’ Are they in hock to him? Does one of their board members have business ties to him? Are they under some kind of legal threat? Because how else can we explain the bizarre attempt by two respected anchors to gaslight us? They are trying to dismiss any scrutiny of Soros, and let’s face it, Newt put his finger on it, as something we can see with our own eyes, but they are effectively (and falsely in the case of Harf) saying it isn’t happening. It’s creepy, really. We didn’t know this about Fox News. Now we do.

Those district attorneys have largely been of far-left Daddy Warbucks George Soros financing far left candidates in district attorneys’ races across the country since 2015. Houston, Albuquerque, Chicago, races in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida, they’ve all gotten their cut. According to Capital Research:

Since 2015, he has spent more than $17 million on district attorney and other local races in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Arizona, but also in large, predominantly left-of-center states such as California and New York. In 2016, Soros dropped $2,000,000 into a single sheriff race in Maricopa County, Arizona, helping progressive candidate Paul Penzone win the election with ease over longtime incumbent Joe Arpaio. He has given millions of dollars in grants to candidates in several other counties as well.

These huge contributions often make it almost impossible for the other candidates to compete because district attorney elections are on such a small scale and the campaigns typically do not need to raise millions to run local ads and mobilize voters. Constituents are swamped with propaganda, and the opposing conservative candidates are victims of unfair character assassinations, such as defaming them as racists and white supremacists.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner got a $118,000 bagload in the wake of the Ferguson riots, and once elected, filed false and scurrilous charges against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitans, which were thrown out. In 2020, she got $78,000 from Daddy Warbucks. Rioters of course have since run free and but the McCloskeys, trying to defend their home, were prosecuted.  

Over in Chicago, State’s attorney Kim Foxx has been attacked by her city’s own mayor for her failure to prosecute rioters. She also was heavily involved in the Jussie Smollett racial hoax fiasco, something that had the fingerprints of Kamala Harris and other Democrats on it.

There’s some kind of power game going on. Democrats, through their control of the DA’s offices, can perpetuate and keep riots flowing until election day in a bid to make voters cry ‘uncle’ and vote for Joe Biden to make it stop. We often view Antifa as the instigator of this, or the trained Marxists of Black Lives Matter, and they certainly have a role. But they would never be able to do what they do without the connivance of the DAs who refuse to prosecute their violent crimes.

And Fox News, at least some parts of it, is covering the whole racket up.

Michelle Malkin has pointed out that they have shut down other truth-tellers about Soros, citing this case from 2018:

 

 

And it may or may not be related to the current protection racket going on to shield Soros, but ten years ago, Fox got rid of Glenn Beck, who also criticized Soros.

One thing we do know, is that Soros is powerful, and he uses his money to wield power. It might not just be the district attorneys that he controls, he might just control at least some of Fox News based on this strange exchange. That’s disturbing. We didn’t know this until this shutdown maneuver against Gingrich. Gingrich, who just wanted to please them, certainly didn’t either, based on his startled response.

Now we know. And now we’ve been reminded for sure that Soros is running the district attorney show, the very reason why the riots are continuing — because nobody is being prosecuted. 

Thanks, Fox News, for getting that out there and letting us know that someone doesn’t want us to know. Thanks for reminding us.

 

 

Image credit: World Economic Forum. swiss-image.ch/Photo by Sebastian Derungs // CC BY-SA 2.0. Processed with Graphite.

 

This is one of the weirdest exchanges I’ve ever seen on TV. @newtgingrich correctly points out that George Soros threw an unprecedented amount of money into DA races all over the country to elect radicals and Fox News basically told him to shut up. WTF? pic.twitter.com/IxwcLG2gOH

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 16, 2020

True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht joined SiriusXM host Matthew Boyle on Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight, where she discussed the importance of the upcoming presidential election and the integrity thereof.

Engelbrecht was questioned on an array of the Democrat Party’s initiatives ahead of election day.

“[Democrats] came in and this was an extended part of the plan,” Engelbrecht said. “They used the pandemic and the fog of COVID to their advantage to sew confusion, to force this universal mail-in catastrophe we see happening state to state, and I think that they have, as they so often do, they’ve overplayed.”

“They have pushed this to a point where people are now, regardless of political party affiliation, are questioning if we can go to the store why can’t we go vote at the polls.”

Engelbrecht said these are “unprecedented times that we find ourselves in,” as she believes the Democrats will try to use the courts to interfere in the election in some form.

“On the other side of a catastrophic situation that they forced, they are positioning attorneys to take advantage of that chaos,” Engelbrecht continued. “Where I think we find ourselves ultimately is in a place that suggests they don’t really care what their voters have to say at the polls at all. They don’t care what they say in their mail-in ballots. They are waiting for the fall of November 3rd to drop so that they can start filing lawsuits.”

“[Democrats] don’t care what voters think. They want the control that government will give them,” Engelbrecht said, before warning of a ‘Marxist’ takeover where “we have to stop them.”

To listen to Breitbart News’s full interview with Engelbrecht, click here.