George Soros behind bid to pull Trump off ballot in key state

Dark money faced election interference in a bid to keep former President Donald Trump off state ballots, linked to George Soros.

While the law has continued against the president through alleged political persecution sparked by numerous indictments across the country, radical activists have hardly remained bystanders. Instead, they have engaged in legal contests of their own, trying to prevent a possible 2024 Trump bid from being viable with funds from the billionaire philanthropist’s Open Society Foundations.

Formerly the Open Society Institute, and now controlled by his heir and successor Alex Soros, the infamous businessman’s grant network was shown to have an established link to the 501 (c)(3) group Free Speech For People, which is currently challenging Trump’s legal right to be on the ballot in Minnesota based on a 14th Amendment claim.

In accordance with research think tank Capital Research Center, at least between 2001 and 2006, the Open Society Institute had “contributed between $100,000 and $275,000 each year to,” The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, from which Free Speech For People was shown to receive donations, as documented by Influence Watch.

While Soros’ foundation was also reported to be connected to Citizens for Accountability and Ethics in Washington (CREW) behind a similar legal fight in Colorado, as the group’s founder, Melanie Sloan, said during a interview on C-SPAN’s “Questions and Answers,” Free Speech For People also had ongoing ties to the dark money network of Washington, DC consulting firm Arabella Advisors.

The 501(c)(3) founded in 2010 was responsible for both the 2016 targeting of Trump Organization subsidiary Trump SoHo for connections to the state retirement systems of California and New York, an alleged violation of the Domestic Emoluments Clause and the move to see the president impeached the first time.

On Thursday, their legal challenge to the president was scheduled to begin oral arguments in the Minnesota Supreme Court as they affirmed “…Donald J. Trump is disqualified from the presidency of the United States under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment…”

The relevant detail of the amendment indicated ineligibility if they had insurrection or rebelled against the [United States]or gave aid or comfort to his enemies,” barring a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress to remove the restriction.

“Donald J. Trump, through his words and actions, after taking an oath as an officer of the United States to support the Constitution, engage in insurrection or rebellion,” his original said. request he stated

Regarding the Colorado case, ABC News reported that the evidentiary hearing that began Monday was scheduled to last five days and CREW President Noah Bookbinder had said that “our republic must be defended today and in the future.”

A spokesman for the president countered the claims made against Trump, saying in a statement: “The people pursuing this absurd conspiracy theory and political attack on President Trump are stretching the law beyond recognition.”

Additionally, Trump attorney Scott Gessler, a former Colorado secretary of state, said in his opening remarks, “It seems to extinguish the opportunity … because millions of Coloradans, Colorado Republicans and unaffiliated voters they can choose and vote for the presidential candidate. they want.”

Staff writer

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he’s not researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.

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