Washington – Rep. Louie Gohmert spouted off against George Soros, questioning whether the liberal financier is Jewish and suggesting that he betrayed Jews during the Holocaust.
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Gohmert, a Texas Republican who is not Jewish, brought up Soros during an unrelated segment Thursday on the Fox Business Network. He and host Stuart Varney were discussing Google and George Orwell.
“It also reminds me of another George, George Soros, because Google is born in a free country and then they go over and oppress others, help oppress, in other countries,” Gohmert said. “George Soros is supposed to be Jewish, but you wouldn’t know it from the damage he’s inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews and helped take the property that they owned.”
Soros, a major supporter of liberal causes, has become a popular villain on the far right. Gohmert’s statements echo accusations from Soros’ critics of his funding for left-wing and human rights groups in Israel, and unfounded allegations that he collaborated with Nazis as a Jewish teen in Hungary during the Holocaust. Soros, who was 13 in 1944, survived the Holocaust in the care of a Hungarian official whose job included taking inventory of confiscated Jewish-owned property.
The Anti-Defamation League called on Gohmert to retract his statement.
“Abhorrent that a sitting Congressman propagated debunked Soros conspiracies,” the group tweeted. “Rep. Gohmert should retract his remarks immediately. This rhetoric is common in extreme far-right circles & perpetuates anti-Semitism.”
Gohmert doubled down on his statement in a letter Thursday to Soros’ Open Society Foundations, writing “Any person with any sense of empathy for his fellow human beings would regret the part they played in assisting the Nazis.”
He is 100% correct
So this Nazi Republican calls a Yid not jewish? so sad. Scary.
Soros is very bad dude.
Soros was a 13 year old Holocaust survivor. Shame on all Republicans and their voters. This Anti semite Gohmert was a White Neo Nazi Supremacist when Soros was a survivor boy. No wonder that Pittsburgh MAGA Mass murder of Jews happened under them. Let see if the POTUS will publicly denounce this Nazi or he is just one of his fine people.
The alt-white conspiracy theory vs Soros which has NO basis in fact is used against all Jews by the right wing GOP. Its normal now to throw around this trash from ‘info wars’ and other nazi conspiracy media. When they attack Soros they attack every Jew, unless you re too dumb to realize it.
Sometimes the truth hurts.
Gohmert is right, The evil Soros is reviled by everybody except the delusional left.
Soros might be Jewish by birth, but he is certainly not too helpful to the main stream Jew in Israel or observant Jew everywhere….
Soros massored on his fellow Jews and thus had them killed and their property taken away. Forgive me for being harsh but I would rather be married to a goy than one of his relatives.
Slander against Soros (who I’m not a fan of) echoes millenia-old conspiracy theories against Jews. Not helpful. Also, Gohmert is extremely reckless with his mouth in general. You can be against Soros without taking it to this level.
Why is Louie Gohmert saying this? I would have supposed this was sort of intramural. Are the affairs of Jews somehow his business?
I’m tired of seeing Soros as this evil Poster Boy of the people who can’t reason in more than 140 characters. (And even the few who can manage 280.)
The myth of Soros assisting the Nazis has been repeatedly disproven.
More Alternate Facts from Trumplican Party.
bull soros family are not Jews they converted to Luther-ism to fit in Germany society. His father converted the who stinken family.
Faux News and far right sources like Infowars have demonized Soros who of course isn’t a tzadik. As a young teen, it’s highly improbable that he was pro Nazi or helped the Nazis. People may strongly disagree with the causes he funds, but that doesn’t make him an evil person.
Present proven verified facts, not innuendo.
Soros collaboration with Nazis and his questionable jewishness is well known and rarely disputed. He retains that role well with his anti Jewish activities so really surprised that there are doubters… It’s pretty much established fact.
I love how 9 of the comments are by Hashomer and his other screen names. Say what you want about fake news. Unfortunately for all of our sakes he has admitted to the atrocious and what a terrible individual he was. The history books will bear these stories and others once he is gone from the face of this earth.