AMAC EXCLUSIVE
Left-wing megadonor George Soros has a bad reputation among conservatives, and rightly so. For decades, he has employed questionable methods to leverage his vast wealth to control political races far outside of his state of residence in New York.
Say what you will about him, Soros has an incredible gift for maximizing the effect of his political donations. If only he didn’t use this gift to undermine law and order.
If Soros were trying to create the most chaos possible and endanger the most lives possible for the least amount of money, he was spot-on by donating his money to fund far left prosecutors in America’s big cities. At the height of his influence, half of America’s 50 most populous cities were overseen by prosecutors who had received astronomical donations from Soros-linked entities.
All this came at the relatively low cost of $40 million. That’s pocket change for a man valued at $32 billion.
The efforts by Soros-backed groups to enact what they called “criminal justice reform” were so effective because they took advantage of the fact that there were very few procedural checks and balances in place to stop a local prosecutor from refusing to charge criminals for their offenses. As a result, Soros prosecutors could do like Rachael Rollins of Boston, who released a list of 15 crimes that she would decline to prosecute, signaling to criminals that it was open season on destroying property, breaking and entering, and possessing drugs with the intent to distribute.
On top of that, few people even bother paying attention to local prosecutor races. As a result, any willing megadonor could pile on massive donations to completely throw off races that would ordinarily be characterized by low spending, and no one would be the wiser. Pro-police “law and order” candidates don’t generally receive a lot of funding, so knocking them down would be a piece of cake.
At one time, twenty percent of America’s population was under the thumb of Soros funded prosecutors. Many were former public defenders who “switched sides” with the help of Soros funding. They then replaced all of the lower-level prosecutors with other public defenders who would refuse to charge criminals.
Unfortunately, that is where things took a grisly turn for the worst.
One by one, America’s big cities were embroiled in a crime wave of epic proportions. Kim Foxx in Chicago was the first rogue prosecutor that Soros funded in 2016 and again in 2020 to the tune of $2.7 million in campaign contributions. During her first four-year tenure, 10,857 Chicagoans became shooting victims.
To put that into perspective, that’s half as many shooting victims in Chicago in four years as there were troops wounded in action in Afghanistan over the 13-year period from 2001 to 2014. It’s no wonder that crime rates are up in Chicago, as Foxx consistently relies on placing criminals on electronic home monitoring rather than putting them in prison, then refuses to prosecute them when they violate the terms of these arrangements.
Consider also the case of Larry Krasner, district attorney in Philadelphia. Elected in 2017, Krasner is a former criminal defense attorney with a history of suing the Philadelphia Police Department. A whopping 90 percent of his campaign cash came from Soros-funded groups – $1.7 million.
Krasner fired 31 prosecutors upon taking office and replaced them with defense lawyers. Then he sat back and watched as murders went up 63 percent and shootings went up 78 percent. Rather than facing accountability for his gross mistreatment of the prosecutor’s role, Krasner accepted an additional $1.2 million to secure his reelection, bringing his total contributions from Soros to over $2.9 million.
Soros-funded Kim Gardner, former Circuit Attorney for the city of Saint Louis, was accused of being the captain of a “rudderless ship of chaos” by one judge who was fed up with her and her fellow prosecutors not showing up for court. She allegedly violated Missouri state law to protect criminals from weapons charges and forced the circuit court to dismiss a total of 2,735 criminal cases, letting criminals walk free with no punishment for their violent crimes. Needless to say, crime skyrocketed.
Of course, even for lackeys of a billionaire, these actions have consequences. More than a dozen local prosecutors funded by Soros have either been removed from office or quit within the past two years. This includes Kim Gardner, who dramatically emailed her resignation to the governor mere hours before a judge was set to rule on whether Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey could schedule a deposition with Gardner and likely obtain incriminating evidence against her.
Yet, despite this wave of pushback against the efforts of Soros prosecutors to upend all semblance of law and order, dozens upon dozens of rogue prosecutors funded by Soros are still out there disrupting the natural course of justice in our major cities. It’s time for responsible elected officials to get involved in ending this reign of terror.
The best solution is, as usual, a state-by-state solution. Other state attorneys general should take action modeled after that of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Each rogue prosecutor should be investigated thoroughly, and if they are found to be derelict in their duty, they should be made to either resign or be removed from office.
Soros’s network will undoubtedly do all they can to maintain their influence over big city district attorney offices. But Americans should recognize that people are dying because of the policies put in place by Soros-backed prosecutors. As dangerous criminals are being released back onto the streets without remorse for their actions, Soros prosecutors and their financial backers are ignoring the suffering of victims and trampling upon the commitment to justice that has always characterized America’s institutions.
Our cities are becoming less safe by the day. How long will it be before this tidal wave of terror reaches the neighborhood where your children play?
Ed Martin is a lawyer who succeed iconic conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly as President of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, the pro-family organization with leaders in every state. He clerked for the federal court of appeals and has served as Chief of Staff to the Governor of Missouri, Chairman of the St. Louis Board of Elections, and in 1997 as special assistant to Pope John Paul II.
