Trump Combining Racism, Anti-Semitism vs Bragg

Indicted ex-president Donald Trump has accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of being “hand-picked and funded by George Soros” to persecute him after the 23-member grand jury in New York voted to indict him for violating federal election laws and committing illegal business practices, Daniel Dale reported for CNN.

Photo Insert: Robinson said that attacks suggesting Bragg is a puppet of Soros, because of George Soros’s donations to the Color of Change PAC, are not only “antisemitic” but also “anti-Black.”

The Color of Change PAC, which has backed progressive district attorney candidates around the country, spent slightly over $500,000 supporting Bragg, Color of Change president and PAC spokesperson Rashad Robinson told CNN last week.

The PAC has received funding from Soros, who has for years been a vocal advocate of criminal justice reform.

Soros did not make any direct contributions to Bragg’s 2021 election campaign, and a Soros spokesperson, Michael Vachon, told CNN last week that the two men have never once communicated in any way.

Robinson said that attacks suggesting Bragg is a puppet of Soros, because of George Soros’s donations to the Color of Change PAC, are not only “antisemitic” but also “anti-Black.”

The attack is premised on the idea that “Black people are so incapable of having their own ideas about how to fight for justice” that the Black-led PAC could not have come up with its own strategies.

Trump claimed last week that Soros spent more than $1 million on Bragg’s campaign, but that figure is inaccurate. “Soros didn’t give us money to give to Alvin Bragg. Soros made a donation to Color of Change,” Robinson said.

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