The Democratic Megadonor and The Rising Crime Rate

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In recent months, Democrats have waged a public crusade against the supposed malign influence of so-called “dark money” groups in American elections. Democrats like Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse have made a career grandstanding on the issue, alleging that Republican politicians receive huge sums of money from shadowy organizations hell-bent on increasing the power of their ultra-rich anonymous donors. Now, however, politicians like Whitehouse have been exposed for their own involvement in dark money schemes, and even the liberal media admit that Democrats accept far more funding than Republicans from dark money groups. But of all the Democrat megadonors fueling the progressive push to remake America, perhaps none has been more effective than billionaire George Soros and his stealth campaign to radicalize the American justice system.

According to recent financial disclosures highlighted by Sean Kennedy, President of the organization Virginia for Safe Communities, Soros, a Hungarian-born former hedge fund manager, has directly or indirectly funded dozens of far-left candidates in local district attorney (DA) elections across the country, largely through various Political Action Committees (PACs) and super PACs. While Soros funding Democrat candidates is nothing new, his specific targeting of DA races has been shockingly effective and deeply detrimental to public safety.

Historically, district attorney elections have been low-dollar, locally focused efforts. However, in 2016 Soros personally invested more in local DA races than almost any other major donor spent on the entire 2016 presidential election cycle. The injection of nearly a million dollars into some of these races by Soros and his allies all but assured victory for his preferred candidates.

As a result of Soros’s efforts, roughly seventy-five of the candidates he funded are currently in office, meaning that dozens of influential local politicians throughout the country owe at least some degree of allegiance to one billionaire donor. While there are 2,500 district attorneys nationwide, Soros selected attorneys running primarily in urban and suburban areas. As a result, the DA’s he supported have jurisdiction over more than fifty million Americans. Additionally, the districts these attorneys oversee have a disproportionately high number of criminal cases filed in them, meaning that this relatively small group of prosecutors wields an outsized influence on the direction of the American justice system.