The New York Times scrambled to run cover for leftist billionaire George Soros after a groundbreaking report exposing his pro-terrorism funding served as the pretext for the Justice Department launching an investigation into his Open Society Foundations (OSF).
The Times tried October 10 to attack the Capital Research Center’s investigative report showing that Soros had funneled at least $80 million into “groups tied to terrorism or extremist violence” both in the U.S. and abroad. The headline: "Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism."
One heavily Soros-funded group, Al-Haq, is “a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the West Bank” that has been “long accused of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the European Union and the United States designate as a foreign terrorist organization.” But The Times picked an obvious strawman and went to town with it by claiming the report “does not show evidence that Mr. Soros’s network knowingly paid for its grantees to break the law, which legal experts said would be necessary to build a criminal case.”
That’s not how investigations work, and the neanderthal-brains at the ironically-dubbed newspaper of record know this. Investigations involve compiling evidence before a criminal case can be built. The CRC report is just one piece in a larger puzzle.
At the very least, the CRC report warrants an investigation to determine at a minimum whether OSF violated the tenets of its tax-exempt status, or whether an actual crime was committed at maximum. But The Times knowingly flipped the script and made it seem like a crime had to be clear-cut prima facie before any investigation can proceed. The stench of the the gaslighting from The Times had the equivalent effect of the gag-inducing reflex one experiences when opening up a putrid can of Surströmming fish:
Instead, it focuses largely on what the Soros network’s grantees said, not what they did. The report, which was published Sept. 17, largely catalogs statements in which Soros grantees offered support for Palestinians in the wake of violent attacks against Israel, suggested tactics for civil disobedience and urged people to turn out for a protest aimed at blocking an Israeli ship from arriving at a port in Oakland, Calif.
Would it surprise you to find out The Times lied about the contents of the CRC report? We hope not, because the Soros grantees the CRC report exposed didn’t just offer “support for Palestinians.” Talk about a whitewash. In fact, the groups openly celebrated terrorist organization Hamas’s genocide against Israel on October 7.
For example, The BlackOUT Collective, part of the Soros-funded Center for Third World Organizing Hub, “produced a pro-Hamas guide that glorifies the October 7 terror attacks in Israel,” according to CRC. But that’s not all. CRC also exposed Soros for providing the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJA) with at least $150,000. The Alliance openly endorsed the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on October 7, 2023, and has acknowledged its close ties to the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, which is a front for the U.S.-designated terrorist organization PFLP.
But according to The Times spin, these are just groups that show sympathetic “support for Palestinians.” Gag us with a spoon! The Times even mischaracterized comments it received from CRC President Scott Walter to erroneously claim that "his group had not found evidence that the Soros network had committed a crime." CRC Investigative Researcher Ryan Mauro slammed The Times's falsehoods in comments to MRC Business:
The New York Times’ article isn’t just a case of bias. It’s deliberately and unethically deceptive, factually incorrect, and contradicts its previous article about the report. The New York Times didn’t debunk the report. It debunked itself. I was on the call where they talked to my boss, the President of CRC, Scott Walter, and I saw every email exchange. This wasn’t a miscommunication. They made the conscious decision to lie about what he said and the points he was making.
Mauro pointed to a previous Times article on his research, which clearly contradicted its most recent implication that the CRC report was attempting to make it seem like Soros had in fact committed a crime. "The report did not accuse Open Society of bankrolling or ordering specific violent acts. Rather, it pointed to statements made by organizations it helped fund — some of which applauded terrorist acts like Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, or encouraged U.S. activists to block roads or destroy property during protests," The Times conceded September 26. It's as if the newspaper is now trying to retcon it's entire narrative.
"This op-ed masquerading as a news article makes it sound like we admitted that we lack evidence for our assertions and the Justice Department’s investigations have no evidentiary basis," Mauro rebuked. "The Times obviously decided that it was worth misleading readers and covering up for endorsers of the Oct. 7 atrocities to try to score a point against the Trump Administration, myself and CRC and exonerate Soros from being held accountable. On the most basic level, this is a clear example of bad people using reprehensible tactics to help bad people,” he continued.
