At a time when Democrats are making the case that Russia is attempting to interfere in the presidential election to favor Donald Trump, Hungarian-born New York billionaire George Soros has reemerged as a leading funder of Democratic politics.
Soros has donated or committed more than $25 million to boost Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates and causes according to the Federal Election Commission.
And, as POLITICO reports, his associates say he plans to give a lot more before November. Soros, who has never been a big fan of Barack Obama, is much closer to Hillary Clinton. The strong Soros backing could lead to more campaign cash from other rich activists.
While Democrats complain about the billionaire Koch brothers and other conservative contributors, the fact is they are raking in millions of dollars from their own special interests.
The controversial investor spent more than $27 million in 2004 in his unsuccessful attempt to defeat President George W. Bush. Soros once compared the Bush administration’s rhetoric on Iraq to that of the Nazis, and described defeating Bush as “a matter of life and death.”
While conservatives have made Soros a target of their wrath, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shared his opposition to the war in Iraq, and once suggested Bush should have been impeached for taking the country to war.