Leftist Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner could be in trouble after he suggested last month that President Donald Trump and his supporters should be “punched in the face as hard as possible.&#8221; 
The Republican Party of Pennsylvania told The Daily Wire on Monday that it asked the Justice Department to investigate Krasner over his March suggestion that Trump and his supporters were “fascists” who needed to be “punched.” Krasner, a George Soros-backed district attorney who implements lax-on-crime policies, is running for a third term as Philadelphia’s top prosecutor. 
“Violence and threats are never acceptable, but they are particularly egregious when used as a political tool targeting the President of the United States of America and his supporters,” Pennsylvania GOP Chair Greg Rothman wrote to the Justice Department, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. “The safety of President Trump, Republicans, and the integrity of our American republic rely on threats like District Attorney Krasner’s being investigated and, if appropriate, punished to the fullest extent of the law.”
The letter to Eastern District of Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said that Krasner should be investigated for making a “potential criminal threat” against Trump during a March 25 <a href="https://www.cityandstatepa.com/personality/2025/03/q-philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner/404028/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with City &amp; State Pennsylvania.
During that interview, Krasner compared Trump and his supporters to the Nazis. 
“Trump likes crime. Fascists like crime. Right-wing Republican MAGA people like crime and they like it because it gins up a crisis that doesn’t have to be, which allows them to scapegoat different groups of marginalized people so they can eliminate our rights. This is a very old playbook,” Krasner said, before adding that he knew a “hell of a lot” about World War II. 
“This is all stuff close to me, and I know exactly where we need to be with this one: loud, proud, standing up and in their faces,” he said. “These are fundamentally fascists, and it will not do us any good to try to appease them. They are bullies who need to be punched in the face as hard as possible, and that is the only way that all the people around us who are so frightened will understand they can stand up, too.”
Rothman wrote that those comments should be seen in the broader calls for violence against the Trump administration and Elon Musk and his efforts with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 
“Violent threats against President Trump, Republicans, Mr. Musk, DOGE staffers, and others have been rampant across the country recently. The clear intent of those doing so is to aid those intending to commit acts of violence,” Rothman wrote. 
The letter cited promises from interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin to investigate threats made toward Musk and members of DOGE, and urges Metcalf to take similar action. 
The last few months have seen a string of attacks targeting Tesla, including firebombings and acts of vandalism. The Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/domestic-terrorism-fbi-arrests-man-for-firebombing-new-mexico-tesla-showroom-gop-headquarters?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Domestic+Terrorism’%3A+FBI+Arrests+Man+For+Firebombing+New+Mexico+Tesla+Showroom%2C+GOP+Headquarters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced yesterday</a> that they had arrested a 40-year-old man for firebombing a Tesla showroom in New Mexico and the state’s Republican Party headquarters. 
“Political violence is never the answer — not in our communities, not in our campaigns, and certainly not from those sworn to uphold the law,” the Pennsylvania GOP told The Daily Wire. “The words of District Attorney Larry Krasner weren’t just reckless, they were dangerous. When the top prosecutor in Philadelphia suggests that the President of the United States and his supporters should be ‘punched in the face,’ it’s not just political rhetoric, it’s a threat.”
While Krasner easily won his last two general elections in the deep blue city, he currently faces a primary challenge from Patrick Dugan, a former judge who is running on a law and order platform.

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Soros DA’s Comments About Punching Trump Could Haunt Him In Re-Election Fight

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk mocked billionaire George Soros from a rally stage in Wisconsin on Sunday after leftist protesters attempted to disrupt his efforts to campaign for conservative Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel.
Musk declared that the Wisconsin Supreme Court race was about more than just who might serve on the court for the next decade — and could have a lasting impact on the balance of power in the United States House of Representatives.
As he spoke, however, protesters attempted to interrupt him — and he fired right back.
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Protestors interrupt Elon’s speech in Wisconsin:
“It was inevitable that at least a few Soros operatives would be in the audience. Say hi to George for me!” 
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After pausing briefly to take in what the protesters were saying, Musk replied, &#8220;It was inevitable that at least a few Soros operatives would be in the audience.&#8221;
The majority of the audience laughed and cheered as Musk waved at the protesters and smiled. &#8220;Give my regards to George,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Say hi to George for me.&#8221;
The crowd quickly broke out in chants of, &#8220;U.S.A.! U.S.A.!&#8221; — which Musk joined as well.
&#8220;I mean, it was inevitable,&#8221; Musk laughed as the chants died down. &#8220;I was waiting for that one.&#8221;
Wisconsin voters will decide on Tuesday whether to elect Schimel, currently a judge on the Waukesha County Circuit Court, or Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-says-wisconsin-supreme-court-election-is-a-vote-for-which-party-controls-the-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Musk</a>, that election could ultimately impact the Republicans&#8217; very slim majority in the U.S. House.
&#8220;What’s happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives. That is why it is so significant. And whichever party controls the House, to a significant degree controls the country, which then steers the course of Western Civilization,&#8221; Musk said.
The goal for Democrats, if they are able to elect Crawford, is to get the Supreme Court to order redrawn district maps that would allow them to map two typically Republican districts out of existence.

Elon Musk Speaks At America PAC Town Hall Ahead Of Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

Elon Musk Mocks Soros From Wisconsin Rally Stage: ‘Say Hi To George For Me’

Elon Musk Mocks Soros From Wisconsin Rally Stage: 'Say Hi To George For Me'

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The so-called backlash to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project on display at recent Republican town halls was actually astroturfed by left-wing organizations.
The legacy media, naturally, jumped on the alleged backlash, with The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CBS News all reporting the protests as if they were organic opposition to President Donald Trump’s attempt to reduce wasteful government spending. It turns out, however, that the protests were anything but organic, according to a <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/mainstream-media-outlets-cited-red-district-doge-protests-as-proof-of-broad-musk-backlash-soros-funded-liberal-groups-organized-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Washington Free Beacon.
In its attempt to attack the Trump administration, CBS quoted Maggie Goldman, who organized one of the protests in Rep. Rich McCormick’s (R-GA) district. CBS identified Goldman only as a McCormick constituent. Though she does live in McCormick’s district, Goldman is a self-described “Democrat &amp; Political Activist.” Far from the concerned conservative voter the media painted these protesters to be, Goldman, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggiergoldman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to her own LinkedIn page</a>, coordinated volunteers to help Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. She also ran for her local county commission as a Democrat and has donated only to Democrat campaigns, including Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. She also publicly boasted about all the media outlets covering her protest, according to the Free Beacon.
But Goldman wasn’t the only leftist organizer of a protest allegedly coming from conservative constituents. Indivisible and MoveOn, which both receive funding from Democrat billionaire George Soros, were behind many of the protests across the country, the Free Beacon found.
“Both groups launched national ‘mobilization’ efforts targeting the ‘<a href="https://front.moveon.org/moveon-announces-congress-works-for-us-not-musk-recess-actions-to-hold-lawmakers-accountable/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump-Musk agenda</a>’ and ‘<a href="https://indivisible.org/muskorus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump-Musk coup</a>’ during the recess period,” the Free Beacon reported, referring to the week-long Congressional recess. “MoveOn said its ‘members and allies will show up at congressional-led town halls and congressional offices around the country, targeting House Republicans whose votes will be crucial in opposing Trump and Musk&#8217;s harmful policies.’ Indivisible issued a ‘Musk or Us Recess Toolkit’ that showed members how to find their local town halls and urged them to ‘take the fight to Elon.’&#8221;
Local organizers used the tools to launch protests pretending to be Republicans, gaining local and national media attention. Local media outlets noted Indivisible’s role in the protests, but neither the Times nor CBS mentioned Democrat involvement. The only mention of Democrats in the process from the Times came when it <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/republicans-congress-town-halls-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that &#8220;many of the most vocal complaints came from participants who identified themselves as Democrats.&#8221; The Times’ headline, however, reads: “Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash.”
CBS briefly mentioned that a local outlet &#8220;also reported that the Washington County Democratic Party had encouraged people to show up to the meeting with Fitzgerald with signs&#8221; but didn’t mention it was organized by Indivisible. The Post noted how &#8220;[l]iberal groups encouraged their members to show up to town halls in deep-red territory” in the 14th paragraph of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/21/doge-georgia-town-hall-gop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its story</a> but didn’t mention the names of the liberal groups.
As the Free Beacon noted, major media outlets should have known ahead of time that the protests were organized by leftist groups because the organizations sent out press releases, and the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/democrats-musk-trump-protests-congress-ccb64f2889d31aad8c25d37686f62d7a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Indivisible and MoveOn were planning to organize the protests. The AP, however, titled its piece “The anti-Musk protest movement is expected to ramp up with Congress on recess.&#8221; That article was published days before other major outlets reported on the alleged “backlash” to Trump and Musk.

Left-Wing Groups Funded Anti-DOGE Protests At Republican Town Halls: Report

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Elon Musk’s “America” PAC is spending $1 million backing the judicial campaign of former Wisconsin Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel in a high-stakes state Supreme Court race with implications for abortion and election integrity. 
State election records <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-super-pac-drops-002010161.html">show</a> that Musk’s America PAC dropped $1 million for “canvassing/field operations” in support of Schimel, who is running against liberal Susan Crawford. Both candidates are running to replace liberal Judge Ann Walsh Bradley, whose retirement will put the ideological leaning of Wisconsin’s top court up for grabs at the April 1 election. 
While judicial races in Wisconsin are officially non-partisan, Schimel is backed by Republicans and conservative groups, while Crawford is backed by Democrats and liberal groups. Currently, liberal justices on the court hold a 4-3 majority. 
“Very important to vote Republican for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to prevent voting fraud!” Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1882394525743927403" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X last month. 
Building America’s Future, another PAC that Musk has reportedly backed financially, is also spending $1.5 million on ads going after Crawford’s record as a judge. One spot from the group points out that she <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/11/what-to-know-about-the-court-cases-in-brad-schimels-supreme-court-ads/78214352007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> a man convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls in a pool to just four years in prison, well below what prosecutors had requested and the maximum penalty that could have been imposed. 
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A 7-year-old girl sexually assaulted at a pool party by a REPEAT offender. The monster faced 100 years in prison, but Susan Crawford let him off with only 4. Now he&#8217;s back on the street and Crawford wants a promotion.
Susan Crawford&#8217;s dangerous decisions are wrong for Wisconsin. <a href="https://t.co/YhhKxcWC2F">pic.twitter.com/YhhKxcWC2F</a>
— Building America&#8217;s Future (@bldgUSAfuture) <a href="https://twitter.com/bldgUSAfuture/status/1892232843327099174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In response to the ad campaign, Crawford has <a href="https://x.com/crawfordforwi/status/1891901189182071084" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Musk of “buying off” Schimel. 
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never met nor talked to Elon Musk,&#8221; Schimel <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-super-pac-drops-002010161.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Thursday. &#8220;No one from my team has ever talked to anyone from Elon Musk&#8217;s team. He hasn&#8217;t asked me for anything, and I haven&#8217;t told him I would do anything.&#8221;
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Crawford’s campaign has been backed with hefty donations from Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman, and leftist megadonor George Soros, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Soros was influential in getting liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz elected in April 2023 when leftists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberal-wisconsin-judge-wins-supreme-court-race-flips-balance-of-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flipped control</a> of the court in one of the most expensive judicial races in history. 
Since that time, the court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-supreme-court-orders-new-maps-for-wisconsin-months-after-liberals-win-majority-on-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced a redrawing</a> of Wisconsin’s legislative maps, making them more favorable to Democrats, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swing-state-supreme-court-rules-that-ballot-drop-boxes-can-be-used-in-2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturned</a> a previous decision that said using ballot drop boxes violated state law. The court is also expected to make key rulings on the state&#8217;s abortion laws and various election laws. 
Former Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker said Tuesday that conservatives needed to win back control after a decision that blocked a challenge to the mobile voting van.
&#8220;This is just the tip of the iceberg with a 4 &#8211; 3 activist court,&#8221; he posted. &#8220;We have to win in April or Wisconsin may never be a battleground state again.&#8221;

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Musk PAC Backing Conservative Seeking To Flip Control Of Liberal State Supreme Court

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The federal government is out of control and President Trump is working overtime to fix it, but the bureaucrats causing the problem have powerful allies striking back at the president from outside.
The basic problem isn’t just the woke spending at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), though that is a prime example of the central issue.
The problem is that unelected bureaucrats have real power to determine policy, and they consider themselves intellectually and morally superior to the people and their elected representatives. This mentality explains why 64% of Washington, D.C.,-based bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris in November say they won’t follow a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy.
This should also remind Americans of how aggressively certain actors within the executive branch opposed Trump during his first term. Agents within the government helped prop up the conspiracy theory that Trump was a Russian agent, and a news outlet partially funded by USAID helped launch the first Trump impeachment. At least one bureaucrat openly described himself as “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html">part of the resistance</a> inside the Trump administration.”  
The rot runs deep, and rooting it out won’t be easy. To make matters worse, the deep state has allies outside the government who are working hard to prevent Trump from changing the system.
<h3>The Freak Out</h3>
Democrats have taken to the streets of Washington, D.C., to protest Trump’s restructuring of the federal government, acting as though cutting waste and abuse from the bureaucracy amounted to a national crisis.
“People need to know how serious this is,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) whose congressional district is home to more than 70,000 federal workers, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/power-democratic-lawmakers-take-streets-rally-opposition-trump-rcna190842">said at a recent protest</a>. “You tear down the federal government, you also tear down our whole society. If you eliminate one of the three branches of government, you can’t run a country.”
Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aren’t tearing down the entire government, and they’re not even eliminating one of the three branches. Rather, they’re making the administrative state — effectively a fourth, extra-constitutional branch of government — accountable to the people’s elected president. 
The Democrats and their allies don’t like it because it involves rooting the woke activism out of the entrenched bureaucracy. 
For example, USAID had been funding Marxist “equity,” transgender activism, and climate alarmism, the woke ideologies voters rejected in November. USAID had partnered with the Open Society Foundations, the massive funding apparatus of Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros and his son Alex. 
In one particularly egregious example, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/07/usaid-george-soros-foundation-bankrolled-news-outlet-spurred-first-trump-impeachment/">USAID and Open Society funded</a> the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. This news outlet attacked conservatives for criticizing Soros and released the report that spurred the first Trump impeachment in 2019.
Conservatives should be familiar with George and Alex Soros. Soros and his son have bankrolled almost every leftist cause you’ve ever heard of, and the Open Society Foundations played a major role in propping up the leftist groups that called the shots in the Biden administration.
As my book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Woketopus-Money-Manipulating-Federal-Government/dp/B0DFVK74TZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government</a>,” reveals, woke activist groups fed staff into the Biden administration and pressed the administration to implement woke policies. Scratch the surface of any Biden policy, and you’re likely to find activists with the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, or the Natural Resources Defense Council. America’s largest unions, such as the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees Industrial Union, also had tremendous access and influence in the administration.
Now, those same groups are gearing up to defend the deep state, and they’re doing more than just picketing outside USAID.
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<h3>Anti-DOGE Lawsuits</h3>
Many activist groups have sued to block DOGE and SpaceX founder Elon Musk from accessing federal data.
The AFL-CIO; the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; and the SEIU — three of the major unions that helped fund the Woketopus and influenced policy in the Biden administration — <a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-unions-sue-doge-over-department-of-labor-data-access/">joined other unions in suing</a> DOGE and the Department of Labor to prevent DOGE from accessing the department’s data. A federal judge temporarily blocked DOGE from accessing the data. 
“DOGE seeks to gain access to sensitive systems before courts can stop them, dismantle agencies before Congress can assert its prerogatives in the federal budget, and intimidate and threaten employees who stand in their way,” the lawsuit states. “The results have already been catastrophic.” 
Democracy Forward is representing the unions <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/29/who-are-nonprofits-sued-block-trumps-federal-funding-freeze/">in the lawsuit</a>. Marc Elias, the left-leaning election lawyer who tried to reverse the results of the 2024 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania, serves on the board of this group.
<a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055.1.0.pdf">The SEIU also sued</a> Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, aiming to block Treasury from sharing data with DOGE. A federal judge <a href="https://fedscoop.com/judge-blocks-treasury-payments-systems-from-doge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">limited DOGE employees’ access</a> to the data in a ruling Thursday. Nineteen Democratic attorneys general, not to be left out, filed a similar case Friday, and a judge <a href="https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-doge-lawsuit-attorneys-general-5733f8985e4cf7ad5b233fddefef4d01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a preliminary injunction</a> blocking DOGE access Saturday.
<h3>Blocking Key Reforms</h3>
In addition to DOGE, Trump has directed key reforms to the administrative state that would make the bureaucracy more accountable to the people’s elected president. Schedule F, for instance, creates a new classification of federal employee that makes bureaucrats who make policy easier to fire. 
The Woketopus has taken aim at Schedule F. 
Governing for Impact, a shadowy activist group that advised top Biden administration bureaucrats after getting launched through the dark money network established by Arabella Advisors, released a memo outlining what it calls the “<a href="https://governingforimpact.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Legal-Vulnerabilities-of-Schedule-F-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Legal Vulnerabilities of Schedule F</a>.” This document appears to be a roadmap to inspire lawsuits against the reform.
On Jan. 29, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, one of America’s largest unions and an arm of the Woketopus, teamed up with the American Federation of Government Employees — which represents 800,000 federal employees — to sue President Trump and the Office of Personnel Management. The same left-leaning law firm that <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/29/who-are-nonprofits-sued-block-trumps-federal-funding-freeze/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">represented left-leaning nonprofits</a> in attempting to block Trump’s funding freeze is representing AFSCME and AFGE.
AFSCME and AFGE claim that Trump’s executive orders aim to “politicize the civil service,” but these orders aim to prevent woke bureaucrats from undermining the president’s ability to deliver on his promises to the American people.
<h3>&#8216;Deferred Resignation&#8217;</h3>
President Trump has reversed policies that allow federal employees to work remotely. He has required all staff to return to work, but he also gave them an offramp should they refuse to return to the office. The Office of Management and Budget has offered to pay federal employees through the end of the year if they resign before Feb. 6.
The AFSCME and a few other unions filed a lawsuit to block President Trump’s offer. The lawsuit asks the court to issue a stay to block the deferred resignation practice. On Feb. 6, a federal judge <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-request-block-trumps-federal-government-employee-buyout/story?id=118535508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extended the deadline</a> through Feb. 10.
As of Feb. 14, more than 75,000 employees have indicated they will resign, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/75000-federal-workers-trump-buyout/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to News Nation</a>. That represents over 3% of the workforce.
<h3>Constitutional Acid</h3>
Democrats and the Woketopus may act as though Trump’s reforms are the end of the world, but the president’s acts arguably represent a long-overdue attempt to bring a metastasized administrative state to heel.
As the head of the executive branch, Trump should have the ability to reform the federal government, and Congress should aid him in this task. The president has taken strong steps in the right direction, but the Woketopus’ response shows that the path ahead will not be easy.
The deep state isn’t just a threat to Trump — it’s an acid corroding the constitutional structure of our government. Americans cannot afford to forget just how corrupt the bureaucracy is, and we should support Trump’s goal of rooting out the deep state.
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Tyler O&#8217;Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: &#8220;<a href="https://amzn.to/3Kmvi0u" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center</a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Woketopus-Money-Manipulating-Federal-Government/dp/B0DFVK74TZ/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government</a>.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Inside The Resistance: How Washington’s Deep State Counters Trump’s Policies

Inside The Resistance: How Washington's Deep State Counters Trump's Policies

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> announced Saturday that he&#8217;ll award failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros, among others, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor.
The decision to award the medal to such partisan figures falls in line with Biden&#8217;s recent announcement to award J6 Select Committee leaders Liz Cheney, a former congresswoman, and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) with Presidential Citizens Medals.
In a press release, the White House cited Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;decades in public service&#8221; and her historic win as the first female presidential nominee for any major U.S. political party &#8212; which was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/democrats-rules-superdelegates-sanders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not without controversy</a>.
Notably, Clinton took a loss to incoming President-elect Donald Trump during the 2016 election, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blames-russian-hackers-and-comey-for-2016-election-loss/2017/05/02/e62fef72-2f60-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bitterly protested</a> the loss for years, blaming Russia, the FBI, and other factors.
Additionally, the former secretary of state has recently called for more big tech censorship, lest &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-we-lose-total-control-if-social-media-companies-dont-moderate-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we lose total control</a>,&#8221; seemingly referring to the government.
As for Soros, Biden cited the controversial figure&#8217;s philanthropy. &#8220;George Soros is an investor, philanthropist, and founder of the Open Society Foundations,&#8221; the White House release said. &#8220;Through his network of foundations, partners and projects in more than 120 countries, Soros has focused on global initiatives that strengthen democracy, human rights, education, and social justice.&#8221;
Recently, Republican governors, such as Florida&#8217;s Ron DeSantis, have vowed to take on the &#8220;work&#8221; of Soros, specifically the billionaire&#8217;s funding of far-Left progressive district attorneys who often execute soft-on-crime policies and <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/20/texas-rogue-prosecutors-law-jose-garza-removal-attempt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">target law enforcement</a>.
Moreover, earlier this week, Biden announced that Cheney and Thompson would be two of 20 people to be awarded the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/02/president-biden-announces-recipients-of-the-presidential-citizens-medal/#:~:text=The%20Presidential%20Citizens%20Medal%20is,country%20or%20their%20fellow%20citizens." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Presidential Citizens Medal</a>, which is given U.S. citizens who&#8217;ve performed &#8220;exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens.&#8221;
The partisan J6 committee, headed by Cheney and Thompson, targeted political opponents for their supposed role in the J6 Capitol breach. The committee and its suspect antics came under fire from the start, since it included only two Republicans, who happened to be fiercely anti-Trump.
A <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/politics/biden-presidential-medal-of-freedom-honorees/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Federalist said the committee was &#8220;illegally established&#8221; and was effectively a &#8220;two-year operation to frame political opponents as criminal insurrectionists and then covered up members’ own misconduct.&#8221;

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As we prepare to enter the new year, we’re taking you back to some of The Daily Wire’s best reporting from 2024. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/documents-reveal-how-george-soros-controls-prosecutors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This article</a> was originally published on August 12. 
George Soros and his son, Alex, have spent at least $117 million since 2016 to reshape America’s justice system. They’ve been successful: three in 10 Americans now live under a Soros prosecutor.
But the Soroses’ influence doesn’t end on Election Day. After Soros-backed prosecutors take office, the family’s apparatus tells them what to do, documents show.
The Media Research Center obtained nearly 8,000 pages of internal documents through public records laws that show how a Soros-funded group called Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) “directed Soros prosecutors to manipulate the rule of law concerning illegal immigration, drugs, abortion, election integrity, capital punishment and laws against childhood sex changes.”
MRC’s yearlong investigation suggests that Soros maintained influence over his chosen candidates after their elections were over. FJP had the Soros-backed attorneys sign 33 pledges to not enforce certain laws — including election integrity measures and immigration laws — and attend more than 50 meetings or “convenings,” some of which were “mandatory.” FJP pressed prosecutors to let criminals off the hook if they are black, having them pledge to “reduc[e] racial disparities in case outcomes by at least 20%.”
FJP’s influence can be seen on some of the most high-profile Soros prosecutors. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sought to indict former President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 protests after the group said it wanted to hold Trump “accountable.” Since-ousted San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was in contact with FJP on a daily basis. On 20 occasions, FJP sent prosecutors “templates” of press releases they should send out, as well as social media posts to “adapt.”
“Being a Soros prosecutor means extensive, free access to expert political consulting firms, complete with detailed polling and field-tested messaging strategies,” the <a href="https://mrc.org/sorosdocuments">MRC’s report</a> found. “FJP remains in the driver seat, though, even going so far as to draft social media posts for its prosecutors so they can better coordinate their messaging.”
At the meetings, Soros prosecutors got talking points and marching orders. At one meeting, political consultants told the assembled prosecutors to frame ignoring property crime as “reprioritizing resources” to “solve more murders.” The consultants cited polling that showed this messaging was more popular than simply acknowledging that prosecutors were not prosecuting lesser crimes.
The Soros operation also pushed prosecutors to use mental or physical health specialists instead of police by sharing polling that showed that the idea was popular.
Soros has poured the kind of money normally reserved for statewide campaigns low-profile local prosecutor races. The Hungarian billionaire generally targets primary elections in blue areas, funding radical progressives in their races against more moderate Democrats. Once in office, these “progressive prosecutors” often decline to enforce laws they find objectionable.
When new Soros-backed prosecutors were first elected, they would meet with experienced Soros prosecutors for guidance. Bragg and Arlington, Virginia attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti traveled to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon’s office in 2021. Dehghani-Tafti this year <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-prosecutor-wont-shut-down-pro-palestinian-encampment-outside-antony-blinkens-home">declined</a> to enforce the law against pro-Palestinian protestors who camped outside Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s home.
The Soros network used money and influence to burnish its district attorneys’ profiles and keep them in office. FJP wrote and placed op-eds on behalf of prosecutors.
Rachel Rollins, who briefly served as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts before resigning amid an ethics investigation, served on the advisory board of a project affiliated with the taxpayer-funded PBS. She used her position to push the network to film an eight-part documentary about Philadelphia’s radical prosecutor Larry Krasner.
Another Soros group bankrolled a glowing documentary about Boudin. The documentary celebrated Boudin’s father, a domestic terrorist and cop killer, for his “lifetime of commitment to those struggling.” FJP celebrated when New York Gov. Anthony Cuomo let Boudin’s father, a member of the Weather Underground, out of prison early.
Even as it advocated for less prosecution of ordinary criminals, the Soros network pushed aggressive prosecution of police and conservatives. FJP connected prosecutors with the Soros-funded Anti-Defamation League, which provided them with “resources” on how to prosecute people for “extremism.” The Anti-Defamation League says that anyone who opposes Antifa is a “white supremacist,” the MRC report said.
“On at least 12 separate occasions, FJP sent out celebratory emails when one of their network prosecutors indicted or convicted a police officer. FJP implied the indictment race was some sort of competition, rejoicing that ‘in the last 18 months, [<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutor-questions-official-story-for-why-soros-backed-da-dropped-charges-against-election-software-firm">George Gascon</a>’s] office has charged 19 police officers,&#8217;” the report said.
FJP had Gascon train other Soros attorneys how to prosecute police. A top Gascon deputy was later <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/assistant-la-county-district-attorney-faces-felony-charges-for-allegedly-mishandling-confidential-police-files/3396824/">charged</a> with illegally accessing police officers’ private information.
FJP also worked directly with the Biden administration.
In 2021, then-Deputy Associate Attorney General Theron Pride attended one of the private Soros prosecutor meetings. Pride was in charge of doling out federal grants. Pride later left government to run a Soros-funded group. Kristen Mahoney, who at the time led the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the “leading source of federal funding” to states and cities, also met with them. FJP highlighted how Mahoney’s federal agency gave grants to at least five Soros DAs.
Soros also funded “lavish junkets” for attorneys to Germany, which has one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world. FJP said that “Germany now diverts almost all people away from prison.” MRC’s report said that “Germany’s socialist government recently decriminalized possession of child pornography, but upheld the conviction of an opposition party leader for posting the government’s official crime statistics on social media.”
Some Soros prosecutors have faced political blowback for their progressive tendencies. Florida Gov.<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-desantis-suspends-liberal-attorney-for-failing-to-enforce-the-law-on-abortion-trans-surgeries-for-minors"> Ron DeSantis removed</a> one such prosecutor, Andrew Warren, after he signed one of the FLP statements, which DeSantis said proved “that Warren thinks he has the authority to defy the Florida Legislature and nullify in his jurisdiction criminal laws with which he disagrees.”
But enforcing the laws could land these prosecutors in hot water with the Soros network, the MRC reports.
“When the prosecutors follow the Soros groups’ directions, they are rewarded. When they choose the law over the Soros machine’s orders, they are removed.”
In Texas, five Soros attorneys’ “work on pledges and sabotaging the attorney general’s enforcement of the laws meant they were now taking orders from the Soros machine to directly contradict their oaths of office,” the MRC found.
“Soros groups shielded the Texas Five from the consequences of their actions, footing their personal legal bills and helping them lobby the legislature to ignore their actions. A sixth Soros prosecutor refused to go along with this ploy, and as a result was ruthlessly targeted by the Soros machine and defeated,” the MRC said.
That sixth prosecutor became concerned that the progressive contingent’s policies had contributed to a crime wave and began dialing back. Soros dumped money into unseating her in a primary.
One of the Texas DAs, Nueces County DA Mark Gonzalez, texted the others, “I didn’t declare any benefit from any training or conferences I attended from FJP on my personal financial statement. Did ya’ll do the same? And if so, any legal reasoning.” A judge later found evidence of “gross incompetence” by Gonzalez, who declined to prosecute nearly three-quarters of cases and has the words “Not Guilty” tattooed on his chest.
After getting far-left prosecutors elected, Soros leverages them to push higher-level officials to enact progressive priorities like limiting cash bail, forcing police to undergo diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, and giving prosecutors more “discretionary powers,” MRC said.
The Soros network also helps staff progressive prosecutors’ offices by identifying third-year law students and placing them in jobs. Soros prosecutors’ offices have been wracked by incompetence after career prosecutors are mistreated or quit out of frustration with new progressive leadership.
Even in deep-blue areas, some Americans have come to regret choosing far-left prosecutors.
“From 2022 to 2024, at least 13 Soros prosecutors lost or gave up their offices as they were held to account for long records of negligence, bad choices and radicalism. At least five were defeated at the ballot box. Three were removed or suspended from office for publicly committing to not do their jobs. Five resigned while under investigation, and one is battling her criminal conviction. Another prosecutor agreed not to run for reelection after several scandals,” the MRC report notes.
Loudoun County, Virginia attorney Buta Biberaj defeated a Republican by 1 percent after Soros spent $800,000 in “independent expenditures” on her race. Typical total spending for the race was only $150,000.
Biberaj later tried to jail the father of a rape victim who threatened to expose Loudoun County Schools for covering up his daughter’s rape by a male student allowed to use the girls’ bathroom because he identified as transgender.
As experienced career prosecutors quit, Biberaj said FJP director Miriam Krinsky, was “the backbone to a lot of what we have done in our office.”
Biberaj <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutor-who-tried-to-jail-loudoun-dad-wiped-out-at-the-ballot-box">lost her race</a> to a Republican this year.
Several states have moved to amend laws to make it easier to remove rogue prosecutors from office. The MRC in its report says that  “governors and state attorneys general should remove law-breaking prosecutors,” and that “where appropriate, AGs should also bring RICO-like charges against the Soros machine and his prosecutors.”

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The district attorney who refused to seek the maximum sentence for Laken Riley’s killer is one of three Soros-backed prosecutors to lose re-election this month.
District Attorney (DA) Deborah Gonzalez of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit, who made headlines for her soft treatment of convicted murderer Jose Ibarra, lost her re-election to challenger Kalki Yalamanchili by over 75% of the vote. 
Gonzalez was an active member of the organization Fair &amp; Just Prosecution (FJP), a Leftist advocacy group funded by billionaire George Soros, which dictates both the public policy and private staffing of prosecutorial offices around the country.
FJP’s efforts to hijack American justice were detailed in <a href="https://mrcfreespeechamerica.org/blogs/business/tim-kilcullen-joseph-vazquez-tom-olohan-dan-schneider/2024/08/12/law-dis-order-how" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media Research Center’s August exposé</a>: “How The Soros Machine Directs and Controls Prosecutors Across America to Implement His Leftist Agenda.”
Gonzalez was joined in defeat by fellow FJP members including Los Angeles County DA George Gascón and Alameda County DA Pamela Price. Gascón and Price were two of the last three remaining members of another Soros group, the censorship-obsessed Prosecutors Alliance of California, which worked closely with Governor Gavin Newsom to push an anti-police and anti-free speech agenda.
Gascón, one of the founders of Prosecutors Alliance, lost to challenger Nathan Hochman by <a href="https://results.lavote.gov/#year=2024&amp;election=4324" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 600,000 votes</a>. Similarly, Prosecutors Alliance member Price lost her recall election by <a href="https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 30%</a>. Their defeat has dealt a crushing blow to the organization and the Soros Machine backing it. Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton remains, and is arguably now <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/diana-becton-prosecutor-da-19895432.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California’s most radically Left-wing prosecutor</a>.
Ibarra, a Venezuelan national released into the United States by the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS), beat Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley to death on February 22 of this year. Gonzalez chose not to pursue the death penalty, even though Ibarra had also attempted to rape Riley in broad daylight and had previously been charged with assaulting a child. Ibarra was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jose-ibarra-found-guilty-of-killing-georgia-nursing-student-laken-riley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted of Riley’s murder</a> on November 20, just weeks after Yalamanchili’s victory.
Gascón, who was previously San Francisco DA, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240507003211/https://www.thenation.com/article/society/prosecutors-alliance-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created the Prosecutors Alliance of California in 2020</a> with Cristine Soto Deberry, a Marin County politician and Newsom’s former deputy chief of staff. The Prosecutors Alliance, which was backed by the Soros-funded Tides Advocacy, was designed to be a far-Left replacement for the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA), which Gascón had <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240507003731/https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/george-gascon-leaves-californias-district-attorney-association/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very publicly quit</a>. 
In August 2024, the Media Research Center (MRC) <a href="https://mrcfreespeechamerica.org/blogs/business/tim-kilcullen-joseph-vazquez-tom-olohan-dan-schneider/2024/08/12/law-dis-order-how" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published detailed communications</a> between the Prosecutors Alliance members showing their <a href="https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_Law%26DisOrder.pdf-1723647180299.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">close relationship</a> with Newsom and FJP. FJP pressured the Alliance’s members to sign pledges vowing to refuse to enforce certain laws that ran afoul of leftist political positions.
In one instance, FJP got Prosecutor Alliance attorneys to pledge that it was a “<a href="https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/CommsBrady-List-Sign-On-Release-FINAL.pdf-1719622302665.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prosecutor’s obligation</a>” to create blacklists of police officers who would not be permitted to testify in court — thereby undermining the officers’ careers. To implement the blacklist for Los Angeles County, Gascón’s director for ethics has been accused of <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/los-angeles-da-aide-arraigned-on-improper-confidential-law-enforcement-records-use-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegally accessing private county personnel database files</a> to obtain the records of “over 1,600 statutorily-protected peace officer files” — a serious crime for which she was indicted.
Gascón was sued separately for over $1.5 million for retaliation against attorneys who objected to his unlawful order that they not pursue prosecutions under certain California “criminal cases involving minors, including his blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults,” <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/los-angeles-da-aide-arraigned-on-improper-confidential-law-enforcement-records-use-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Los Angeles Times</a>. The lawsuit was successful.
The Prosecutors Alliance successfully lobbied the California State Senate to pass a police censorship bill which mandated that elected prosecutors who accept campaign contributions from organizations supporting law enforcement (including unions) give up their authority to prosecute police officers. Had the censorship bill been enacted, police would effectively have been forbidden from using their own money for political advocacy against the millions in propaganda against them.
When the California State Assembly refused to pass the Prosecutors Alliance’s censorship legislation, the group’s attorneys lobbied the state bar association to bypass the legislature and impose the speech restrictions via their own byzantine internal procedure.
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The Prosecutors Alliance’s members were Gascón, Price, Contra Costa County DA Diana Becton, San Francisco City &amp; County DA Chesa Boudin and San Joaquin County DA Tori Verber Salazar. Berkeley, Long Beach, Glendale, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and Stockton were among the many cities under the Prosecutors Alliance attorneys’ jurisdiction.
In 2022, Boudin lost his recall election and Verber Salazar <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/los-angeles-da-aide-arraigned-on-improper-confidential-law-enforcement-records-use-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost her primary re-election bid</a>. Becton’s term is set to expire in 2026, but she may be <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/los-angeles-da-aide-arraigned-on-improper-confidential-law-enforcement-records-use-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from office early</a> via a recall election.
Remaining Soros prosecutors like Becton face a new foe in tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk has pledged to use his patriotic advocacy group America PAC to further combat Soros’s influence over America’s justice system.
“Something has to be done to kind of counter the damage that Soros has done to the American system,” Musk pledged in an <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/los-angeles-da-aide-arraigned-on-improper-confidential-law-enforcement-records-use-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">election day video</a> uploaded to his social media platform, X. “America PAC&#8217;s going [t] aim to weigh in heavily on the midterms and intermediate elections, as well as just doing common sense stuff like having DAs who prosecute violent criminals who are obviously a danger to people.”
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Conservatives are under attack. Contact Governor Gavin Newsom and tell him to renounce his support for the Prosecutors Alliance of California. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/los-angeles-da-aide-arraigned-on-improper-confidential-law-enforcement-records-use-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact form</a>, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
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Tim Kilcullen is Counsel for Investigations at the Media Research Center.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A party in North Philadelphia descended into <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/philadelphia-shooting-jessup-cumberland-oct-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chaos</a> earlier this month when a juvenile boy fired off 50 rounds, injuring seven people and leaving one 16-year-old girl in critical condition. At one point in time, stories like this were unthinkable. Then, they were rare. But now, incidents like this are routine in Philadelphia. 
Rather than facing this human suffering head-on, Philadelphia progressives are desperate to spin a different narrative about crime in their city. With an election just around the corner, <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/07/29/crime-in-philadelphia-plummeting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> after <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/crime/gun-violence-crime-rate-philadelphia-2024-20241008.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> after <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/crime/inq2/gun-violence-philadelphia-2024-shootings-20240617.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> is touting that crime is down. 
District Attorney Larry Krasner earlier this year <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/violent-crime-philadelphia-falls-2024-larry-krasner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">predicted</a> “the largest reduction in violent crime in recorded history in the United States.” And Vice President Kamala Harris has been <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/decision-2024/crime-rate-statistics-trump-harris-biden-fact-check/3540700/?os=vbkn42tqho&amp;ref=app" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adamant</a> that crime rates have declined during her administration. For its part, the Philadelphia police department is <a href="https://www.phillypolice.com/crimestats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> a 40% year-to-date decrease in homicides in 2024 and a 42% reduction in shootings.
As the City’s website readily admits, however, these crime data are “preliminary,” which means they will likely be revised upward as the year continues. And they may even be even edited retroactively, as the FBI <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently did</a> for national crime statistics to cover up how unsafe America’s streets have become. 
Regardless, is the narrative true that Philadelphia has begun to solve its crime problem?
Unfortunately, it’s not. While the short-term decrease in crime during an election year might seem encouraging, the reality is that it isn’t indicative of real change. Violence in Philadelphia is still at historic highs.
To understand why, some perspective is in store. 
From 2013 to 2017, Philadelphia <a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/rogue-prosecutors-and-the-rise-of-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">averaged</a> 271 homicides per year. But then something happened. From 2018 through 2023, there was an average of 457 per year. Black people represented 83 percent of those victims. The same drastic jump in crime applied to shooting incidents, which increased from a five-year average of 1,047 per year to 1,588 per year. And aggravated assault while armed with a handgun, went from a five-year average of 2,209 per year to 3,116 per year. And retail thefts, which went from a five-year average of 7,412 per year to 9,084 per year. And auto theft skyrocketed from a five-year average of 5,691 to 8,665 per year.
So, what happened in 2018? 
Larry Krasner happened. He was elected as the 26th District Attorney of Philadelphia, thanks in part to $1.7 million in <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/soros-weighed-in-with-even-more-money-in-das-race/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funding</a> from progressive billionaire George Soros. At the time, Vice President Kamala Harris also vocally <a href="https://x.com/kamalaharris/status/864870584823533568" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> Krasner, calling his victory “key to criminal justice reforms like rolling back mass incarceration and ending cash bail.”
Unfortunately for the citizens of Philadelphia, Harris was right. Krasner’s policies would reflect the pro-crime agenda of his radical benefactor and lead to a <a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/rogue-prosecutors-and-the-rise-of-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">massive increase</a> in crime which has completely transformed the city. 
On his first day in office, Krasner fired 31 experienced violent crimes prosecutors, who he <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-04-20/philly-da-larry-krasner-pbs-review" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed</a> as “ticks.” Then, he pursued new radical <a href="https://phillyda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/DAO-New-Policies-2.15.2018.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policies</a> such as making retail theft of less than $500 worth of goods a petty crime, <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-criminal-justice-reform.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instructing</a> all his assistant district attorneys to stop seeking bail on low-level charges, and <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-criminal-justice-reform.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowering</a> charges for first- and second-degree murderers. 
These policies <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/11/23/larry-krasner-criminal-justice-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earned</a> Krasner the affectionate title “Uncle Larry” from Philadelphia’s criminals. And unless Uncle Larry is removed from office, Philadelphia’s improved 2024 crime numbers will prove to be what they are: an election year illusion and an embarrassment when put in their proper historical perspective.
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It doesn’t have to be this way. The people of Philadelphia should be able to live in a safe city, and not just during presidential election cycles when radical Democrats like Kamala Harris are trying win their vote. 
Thankfully, the solutions are simple, and conservatives are ready to deliver them. So are some moderate Democrats who already work in the city. Mayor Cherelle Parker, who <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/philly-mayoral-election-2023/cherelle-parker-crime/3568885/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> directly opposed to Kamala Harris’ progressive orthodoxy on crime and called for the city to hire hundreds more police officers, is a good example. So is Police Chief Kevin Bethel, whom Parker appointed in January. 
Since becoming the city’s top cop, Bethel and his officers have <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/kevin-bethel-philadelphia-crime-rate-kensington/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implemented</a> a curfew in high-crime areas, cracked down on people driving illegal ATVs and dirt bikes, and removed long-standing encampments. Conservatives and public safety advocates have been advancing all of these are commonsense policies for years.
Bethel attributes some of his success to collaborating with “federal partners” such as “ATF and DEA and FBI and Homeland Security.” But all Bethel’s good police work won’t count for anything if Krasner continues to let criminals off the hook. And the collaboration he counts on could end abruptly if Vice President Harris is elected and implements her “defund the police” agenda. As she <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kamala-harris-still-aims-to-hold-police-back-violent-crime-federal-control-law-enforcement-f6201bb5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> recently on “The Breakfast Club,” she supports the federal government playing a bigger role in setting local policing rules, restricting certain police tactics, and getting rid of qualified immunity for Philadelphia cops.
To prevent horrific shootings like the one that occurred earlier this month and permanently put a stop to crime in their city, Philadelphians need to see beyond short-term statistics and recent headlines and place the blame where it belongs: with progressive Democrats like Larry Krasner and Kamala Harris trying to take credit for reducing crime rates that their radical policies caused to spike in the first place. 
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Kevin Roberts is the president of Heritage Action for America.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, a far-left Democrat who was backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros, filed a lawsuit on Monday to stop Elon Musk&#8217;s $1 million a day giveaway to people who signed a petition with his America PAC.
America PAC states that one winner is being chosen daily in one of the seven swing states if they sign the PAC’s petition pledging their support for the First and Second Amendments.
“America PAC and Musk are lulling Philadelphia citizens – and others in the Commonwealth (and other swing states in the upcoming election) – to give up their personal identifying information and make a political pledge in exchange for the chance to win $1 million,” the lawsuit claims. “That is a lottery. And it is indisputably an unlawful lottery.”
Democrats are trying to stop Musk&#8217;s giveaway because one of the requirements is that those who signup must be registered voters. The requirement is leading to a lot of people registering to vote, particularly Republicans, in the crucial swing state that could determine the winner of next week&#8217;s presidential election.
Krasner alleged that the giveaway&#8217;s rules were &#8220;deceptive&#8221; because those who had won had attended Trump rallies and thus were not selected at &#8220;random.&#8221;
The Biden-Harris administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-threatens-elon-musk-with-criminal-prosecution-for-petition-signup-giveaway">threatened</a> Musk last week with criminal prosecution for helping to drive voter turnout in the upcoming election.
The New York Times reported that the letter from the Biden-Harris Department of Justice warned that the giveaway “might violate federal laws against paying voters.”
The report said that the letter is intended to threaten “a criminal investigation” if Musk does not stop, even though it’s not clear if the petition even violates the law.
The letter comes after a group of anti-Trump Republicans sent a letter to the Biden-Harris DOJ this week demanding that they stop Musk’s efforts.
The move from the Biden-Harris administration comes after they have demonized Republican election integrity laws across the country by falsely claiming that they are Jim Crow‑era laws designed to suppress the vote.
Earlier this month, the Biden-Harris administration filed a lawsuit to stop the state of Virginia from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls before the election, even though the effort was in compliance with a law that was supported by Democrats.
“I think it straddles the line, and it’s a little unclear whether it goes over the line or not,” John Fortier, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who specializes in election administration, told NBC News of the Musk giveaway.
Nate Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School, told the network that there really has never been a case like this before, thus “we’re in new legal territory here.”
“The relevant legal question is whether this is payment to induce people to register. If it is, then it violates the law,” he said. “If it’s payment to induce people to sign a petition, then it’s not a problem.”
Michael Morse, an assistant professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, told NBC News that he would be surprised if the Biden-Harris DOJ tried to stop Musk before the election because they should have more pressing matters before the election.
He said that he viewed this as an effort “to build up an email list for contacts, for campaigning, for mobilization.”

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Kamala Harris is apparently going to call for more resources for Border Patrol agents to do their job.
However, I have spoken with the Border Patrol. The issue is not one of resources. The issue is the illegal structures under which they operate. The issue is whether they must immediately treat people who claim asylum as actual asylum possibilities or whether they can turn them away at the border.
Harris is going to propose new detection machines for fentanyl at border entry points. But that&#8217;s not where most of the fentanyl is crossing. The vast majority of fentanyl funneling into the country is coming in undetected, not through ports of entry.
Harris apparently will decry former President Trump&#8217;s failure as president to address this challenge and his recent efforts to build bipartisan solutions to it, and say the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security and playing political games.
But she doesn&#8217;t care about border security. This is a joke, and we all know it.
It’s all a lie.
The actual ideological predilection of the Democratic Party and of Kamala Harris is the George Soros program. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore.
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A few years ago, Soros decided to hand over the running of the Open Society Foundations — which is his deeply Left-wing, really ugly 501c3 — to his son, Alex Soros. Alex is now engaged to Huma Abedin, whom you may remember as the buddy-buddy friend of Hillary Clinton and the wife of Anthony Weiner.
The Open Society Foundations has been a blight on the West since its launch. It is responsible for the appointment and election of extraordinarily radical DAs in major cities across America who fostered the Black Lives Matter riots. They are additionally responsible for many open-border policies.
On Thursday, photos were released of Alex Soros with Tim Walz at Soros’ apartment overlooking the proletariat in New York City. In them, Soros is standing above the New York skyline showing Walz — who is, as always, in a subservient position — what it means to be an elite helping to run the world.
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I&#8217;m not sure you could possibly create a more conspiratorial-looking photo than this supplicant politician with the scion and heir to a billionaire financier promoting wild Left-wing policy.
The Open Society Foundations has spent billions on American politics over the course of three decades. Across the West, it has spent some $22 billion, an enormous amount of money. <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/nonprofit-financed-by-billionaire-george-soros-donated-140-million-to-political-groups-in-2021.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to CNBC, back in January 2023, “George Soros’ backed nonprofit invested at least $140 million into politically charged nonprofits just one year before the midterm elections. Those donations are on top of the more than $170 million Soros personally contributed during the 2022 midterm election cycle to help Democratic campaigns and political action committees.”
So, of course, the Democrats are going to Alex Soros for more money. A big Kamala Harris backer, Soros took a photo in July with Harris and, as soon as she became the nominee, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alexsoros/p/C9sljRAyeJ-/?img_index=alexsoros" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> that he was in support of her: “It’s time for us all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump. She is the best and most qualified candidate we have. Long live the American Dream!”
Alex Soros doesn’t give a damn about the American Dream. He was literally handed everything he has ever had.
So there they are, buddy-buddy, Alex Soros and Kamala Harris.
Now, whenever Soros is mentioned, I understand there is a cadre in the media who have a relationship with Jewishness that, shall we say, is fraught, and suddenly decide it&#8217;s anti-Semitic to point out that Alex and George Soros have spent billions of dollars on promoting far-Left policy across the West.
That&#8217;s just a reality. Such a statement is not anti-Semitic in any way, shape, or form. Alex Soros pouring money behind the Democrats and having Democratic candidates come to his apartment on bended knee to ask what they can do for him is a pretty impressive show of force by the Alex Soros wing of the party.
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So what exactly does Alex Soros believe? He believes the most Left-wing things it is possible to believe. A November 1, 2021, press release from the Open Society Foundations stated, “The Open Society Foundations today announced $1.3 million to support frontline organizations working to aid Haitian and black migrants dislocated, detained, and expelled as they sought asylum and safety at the U.S. southern border this fall. This funding will help provide legal services to Haitian asylum seekers arriving at the Southwest border and support advocacy to protect their rights. It will further enable Black-led organizations to champion more broadly the humane treatment of all Black immigrants seeking safety and stability in the United States.”
And in this same press release, the Open Society Foundations promoted the lie that the Border Patrol was whipping Haitian migrants with horse reins, which, of course, was not true. Alexander Soros said, “The treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border is unconscionable and a stain on our country&#8217;s standing across the region and among Black Americans. The damage done by these policies will last long after the headlines fade. These policies must change, accountability must be served, and the basic dignity and rights of the tired and poor, yearning to be free are honored here. We are proud to support organizations working on overdrive to help thousands through this crisis.”
This is what the Open Society Foundations is. The Open Society Foundations, led by Alex Soros, is a far-Left organization. It is impossible to think of any far-Left cause they do not support. In fact, they do everything from support extraordinary COVID-19 lockdowns to open borders to “criminal justice reform” — which is designed to defund the police — to Democratic voter groups and to censorship via social media.
That&#8217;s what the Open Society Foundations do.
Those are the people Harris is cultivating each and every single day.
It&#8217;s not just Harris, of course.
<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3155403/alex-soros-white-house-biden-two-dozen-visits/">According</a> to the Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky:
<blockquote>Alex Soros, the 38-year-old son of Democratic megadonor George Soros, has visited President Joe Biden’s White House at least two dozen times since 2021, according to White House visitor logs.
Updated White House visitor logs place the younger Soros, who recently took over his father’s $25 billion empire, at the White House around 25 times between October 2021 and May 2024. His latest appearance was for a state dinner. The high-level meetings and appearances at exclusive gatherings have come as George Soros donates large checks to Democratic lawmakers and left-of-center causes, with Alex Soros also establishing himself as a top federal campaign contributor. 
The White House visits illustrate how Alex Soros has gained influence in the Biden-Harris administration and likely would continue to have the ear of top officials in a Harris-Walz administration. Alex Soros was widely photographed attending meetings with Democrats at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August. His fiancee, ex-Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, was as well.</blockquote>
These are the people who have the ear of Kamala Harris.
Do you believe that she&#8217;s going to the border to shut it down?

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On September 19, the Associated Press published <a href="https://apnews.com/article/evangelicals-harris-trump-christians-vote-9d5cb379dc3c2fdb3f4954c556a29ec5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article</a> with the headline, “These evangelicals for Harris are voting their values—by backing Kamala Harris.” This headline intrigued me. I wondered what values evangelical Christians could possibly share with Harris, since evangelicals live by the Bible and especially the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I have my suspicions that these “evangelicals” featured by the mainstream media are not what they seem. The intended effect here may be to cause enough doubt among true evangelical voters that they stay home on Election Day. Although those voters would not vote for Harris, they may no longer feel comfortable voting for Trump, either.
Yes, Donald J. Trump’s flaws are well known, though permit me to point out that many of his alleged and most egregious transgressions occurred while he was yet a Democrat. Since Christianity is a “come as you are” religion, most Christians understand that people are not bound by the mistakes they make during the journey of life. What some Christians struggle with is the contradictions that they see within Trump and the Republican Party more broadly. The GOP’s platform has retreated from its non-negotiable stances on the sanctity of human life and the importance of marriage as a permanent union between one man and one woman. Given the divorce rate in America, the standards were perhaps too high for the latter to carry much sway. Even so, the Republican platform more closely aligns with those convictions shaped by Biblical truths than the Democrats’ alternative.
Let’s look at Vice President Kamala Harris’s current policy stance on certain issues versus her platform on those issues during her presidential bid (she has assured her donors and followers that her values remain the same — wink-wink!) Harris supports the killing of unborn babies at any stage of development. Reproductive freedom, the euphemism for abortion, comes with no limits in her mind. In 2019, Harris is on record in an American Civil Liberties Union questionnaire stating that she would cut financial support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and offer gender transition surgeries to border crossers. Since the Biden-Harris Administration has tried to rewrite Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (now blocked by the Supreme Court), it is a safe bet that she supports men competing in women’s sports. Former President Trump has made it clear that he opposes biological males participating in women’s sports and would eliminate the expansion of the law that allows men to compete against women.
Despite Democrats and Republicans moving closer together on pivotal issues, Bible-believing Christians would still find more like-minded people in the Republican Party.
With all that in mind, the question still begs: does Harris offer a certain appeal for evangelicals, and should the Trump team be concerned? One such Harris-friendly evangelical group, Evangelicals for Harris, is targeting Christians with ads and arguments meant to persuade them that Harris is closer to their views than Trump.
I decided to dig a little deeper into Evangelicals for Harris to determine if they are disaffected Republicans who believe that Democrats best represent Christian values. What I discovered takes us back to 2008 and the decision that progressives made to go after the religious vote following the election of Barack Obama. First of all, Obama kept in place Bush’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative that allowed churches big and small to feed from the federal trough. It provided federal grants to churches who were providing social services to underserved populations. This meant that some of the black megachurches whose pastors had endorsed George W. Bush quickly switched their allegiances to Obama. Under Obama, money flowed to any organization or group that could make a religious claim. Not surprisingly, that’s when we saw the emergence of liberal evangelical groups supported by private and public funds.
Federal dollars eroded at the common understanding of evangelicalism, making the meaning fuzzier and fuzzier. It was no longer just about Jesus and the Gospel. Evangelicalism was opened up to progressive interests: its purposes now included advocacy for global warming and reproductive freedom. This attracted the dark designs of atheists bent on remaking America in their godless image, such as George Soros.
A 2010 op-ed by Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, documented Soros’ influence well: “George Soros’s Evangelicals.” His article focused most prominently on Richard Cizik, the former head of The National Association of Evangelicals, who had represented the organization in Washington, D.C. for almost three decades. Two years earlier, Cizik had been forced to resign from that position but had reinvented himself with a return to power with a new organization he founded, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good. Now, Cizik serves as the executive director of Evangelicals for Democracy. Soros’s Open Society Foundation funded Cizik as well as another progressive “evangelical” Jim Wallis, the theologian who founded and edited the Sojourners Magazine and also received money from the Open Society Institute.
The influence of those like Soros wouldn’t be possible if existing evangelical powerhouses weren’t receptive to them. Using Marxist and Fabian socialists-inspired strategies, America’s churches (including the Southern Baptist, America’s largest Protestant organization) have been infiltrated with progressive evangelicals who are indeed shifting the organization and its member churches to the left. In 2019, the Southern Baptists shocked the world with its adoption of Resolution 9, “on Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality,” clearly concepts that its members were clueless about. One provision of the tortuous resolution stated that “critical race theory and intersectionality should only be employed as analytical tools subordinate to Scripture—not as transcendent ideological frameworks.’ Thereby, it brought into its midst a godless approach rooted in conflict theory. When the organization’s conservatives attempted to revisit the issue and insist on the authority of scripture unaided with Marxist tools, leaders of progressive black churches like Reverend Dwight McKissic, A Baptist Pastor, from Texas threatened to leave the organization.
Ironically, McKissic is one of the Evangelicals for Harris quoted in the AP article I mentioned earlier. According to him, there is “no moral superiority of one party over another.” For proof, McKissic cited “the GOP’s decision to ‘abandon a commitment to ban abortion with a constitutional amendment’ and to soften its stance against same-sex marriage in its party platform.” Although the authors of that article would have you believe that McKissic is an evangelical Christian who sees commonality with Harris, there is no evidence I am aware of that McKissic ever supported Trump, or the Republican Party once Obama came on the scene.
Reverend Jim Ball, the former Executive Vice President for Policy and Climate Change at the Evangelical Environmental Network, is the organizer of Evangelicals for Harris. He has stated that, “Diversity is a strength for us. We’re not looking for total unanimity. We’re looking for unity. We can be united while we have differences.”
It is these connections that lead me to believe that much-publicized evangelicals supporting Harris such as Evangelicals for Harris are, in truth, wolves in sheep’s clothing: progressives seeking to pull away Christian Trump supporters by pointing out his lack of humility, his “meanness”, waffling on issues like the sanctity of human life and the sacredness of traditional marriage. Whether they are successful at making any serious inroads into the traditional evangelical base remains to be seen. What is clear is that part of the strategy is to create disillusionment in the followers of Jesus Christ, hoping that this group will stay at home on election day. We can only pray that Christians are wise to the game.
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Dr. Carol M. Swain is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Faith and Culture (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church) and is the author of The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court’s Decision to Remove Race from College Admissions Criteria will Doom Diversity Programs (co-authored with Mike Towle). X (carolmswain), LinkedIn (carolmswain), Instagram (drcarolmswain), GETTR (carolmswain) and Truth Social (carolmswain).
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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