{"id":82647,"date":"2025-12-28T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82647\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:35:08","slug":"far-left-billionaire-george-soros-and-family-donated-71000-trump-hating-ny-ag-letitia-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82647\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-left billionaire George Soros and family donated $71,000 Trump-hating NY AG Letitia James"},"content":{"rendered":"

Far-left billionaire kingmaker George\u00a0Soros<\/a>\u00a0and his family\u00a0members have poured more than $71,000 into state <\/a>Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 campaign\u00a0coffers since 2019 \u2014 including $31,000 to help the longtime adversary of President Trump<\/a> get re-elected next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The contributions include $18,000 from\u00a0Soros\u00a0in July 2024 and another $13,000 from his daughter-in-law, Jennifer\u00a0Soros,\u00a0in May, records\u00a0show.<\/a> Soros and his clan also gave James another $40,000 dating back to 2019 for previous campaigns.<\/p>\n

And the windfall doesn\u2019t even include indirect support James receives through far-left organizations Soros helps bankroll, including millions to the Working Families Party.<\/p>\n

Far-left billionaire kingmaker George\u00a0Soros\u00a0and his family\u00a0members have poured more than $71,000 into the campaigns of state Attorney General Letitia James (pictured) since 2019. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Soros\u2019 ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has doled out $23.7 million<\/a> to the WFP since 2016 through its fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc., and he and his family members showered the New York branch with another $865,000 in direct donations since 2018, records show.<\/p>\n

James\u2019 relationship with the WFP is all but unprecedented in New York. <\/p>\n

In 2003, she became the first Working Families Party candidate to win a race in the state when she was elected to a Council seat representing Fort Greene and other parts of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

James declined the WFP line for her successful 2018 run for Attorney General in a strategic move that saw her instead run as a Democrat under a ticket with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

But she has continued to embrace the party\u2019s progressive values and picked up its endorsement in her 2022 re-election campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge Soros has spent years financing the radical left\u2019s most extreme projects, and the outcome is almost always the same: instability and disorder that is destroying our state,\u201d said Michael Henry, a commercial litigator and Republican running to unseat James in 2026.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused George Soros of pulling the strings behind the legal challenges brought against him by James and other far-left prosecutors. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw it with [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg, so no one should be surprised that [Soros] is heavily backing Letitia James\u2019 ideological crusades and political vendettas that put New Yorkers\u2019 safety on the back burner.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the same donor who funds chaos underwrites New York\u2019s top law enforcement office, the results speak for themselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

James has garnered national attention by pursuing a slew of lawsuits against the Trump administration and the president personally \u2014 including making good on a 2018 campaign pledge to investigate Trump\u2019s real estate dealings.<\/p>\n

James has garnered plenty of national attention by pursuing a slew of lawsuits against the Trump administration and the president personally. AP<\/p>\n

James\u2019 case alleging the real estate tycoon-turned-president engaged in fraud by exaggerating his net worth for decades is ongoing, but Trump scored a huge victory in August when a state appellate panel threw out the more\u00a0than $500 million fines he was slapped with as part of the proceedings.<\/p>\n

James has had her own share of legal troubles with Trump\u2019s Department of Justice as she was indicted in October on mortgage fraud charges related to a property she owns in Virginia.<\/p>\n

James pleaded not guilty, and the case was dismissed in November without going to trial. Since then, multiple attempts by the DOJ to re-indict her have failed.<\/p>\n

The president has repeatedly accused Soros of being behind the legal challenges brought against him by James, Bragg and other far-left prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The White House did not return messages.<\/p>\n

Soros indirectly helped the soft-on-crime Bragg\u2019s successful 2021 DA campaign by donating $1 million to advocacy group Color of Change\u2019s political action committee, which in turn spent more than $500,000 on mailers, ads and field operations boosting Bragg.<\/a><\/p>\n

Soros and his family members have also donated $43,150 to Bragg directly since 2021 \u2014 including $22,500 since June, records show.<\/p>\n

Michael Vachon, a Soros spokesman, refused to address the donations.<\/p>\n

The attorney general\u2019s office did not return messages, and James\u2019 campaign spokesperson could not be reached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far-left billionaire kingmaker George\u00a0Soros\u00a0and his family\u00a0members have poured more than $71,000 into state Attorney General Letitia James\u2019 campaign\u00a0coffers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3015,393,3692,153,7384,398,57,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-82647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-attorney-general","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-soros","tag-letitia-james","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}