After a Chinese spy balloon was spotted over the United States, President Joe Biden ordered the military to shoot it down. The problem is, the military had no idea what to do with it, and no one else would have done it either. So what did they do?
00:11:14.760So I'm not really sure what the change is.
00:11:18.220But the one thing we should keep in mind is, you know, Soros is 92 years old.
00:11:22.020So he, I mean, I look at the stats, he's probably statistically got three or four years of life left.
00:11:27.380So it's going to be, the tide is finally turning.
00:11:30.100But now we've got to look at the next guy, and that's Alexander Soros.
00:11:32.900And he's sort of, you know, a Soros ambassador for Soros.
00:11:36.520You go on the guy's Instagram page, and it is a who's who of famous Democrats, pundits, etc.
00:11:43.380And it seems like he is really being primed to take over the empire.
00:11:47.120In fact, he's already on the board of the Open Society Foundations.
00:11:50.140He's on the board of Central European University, which is a college that his father started.
00:11:53.960So he's really the most ingrained in his father's network, and is just really all over the world in these little places like, you know, the Balkans meddling and stuff out of nowhere.
00:12:03.140So I think a lot of the Soros' work has sort of been outsourced to his children at this point, though it's obviously impossible for me to prove.
00:12:11.520But it does seem like, or actually, I'll just step back a second, too.
00:12:15.900Another point I make in the book is Soros was responsible for what is, I mean, it is technically the greatest charitable contribution of all time.
00:12:24.620But there's obviously quotation marks among charitable.
00:12:27.480Basically, he just took billions of dollars of his own money.
00:12:30.160I think it was, I have the exact number in the book, around $20 billion, donated it to his own foundation.
00:12:34.680So he paid no capital gains tax on the stock he donated, then gets to write off, you know, the donation against his personal income.
00:12:42.480But then also his foundation has all these billions.
00:12:45.220And the amount he donated, I found it was comparable to what it spent since its inception, which only tells you if you're donating that much money this late in life, well, clearly you think it's going to live on beyond you.
00:12:56.900He's very much positioning his organization to do that.
00:12:59.280Yeah, I wouldn't count him out here, because I get an image of him as, you know, the cinematic evil multi-billionaire.
00:13:10.560He's probably putting together the secrets to 200 years and wiring himself up to every tube and electrode there is to gain another 50, 60 years.
00:13:24.400And the thing too about his influence that I make, a point that I make is like, I mean, yes, he has direct influence and they can call and email politicians and get what he wants.
00:13:33.920But there's also sort of the implied contract in that when you give an organization billions of dollars or millions of dollars even, especially if it's a media organization, Soros doesn't have to tell them, hey, FYI, you know, don't cover anything negative about me.
00:13:49.360You know, they already, well, they already know that.
00:13:52.740And all these groups he's funding now while he's alive, presumably are going to still get funded after his death and are going to have the same from beyond the grave influence he had beforehand.
00:14:27.240No, I mean, I think the most damning story I put and part of the motivation to write the book was, you know, sort of as a peripheral figure, I knew he was a bad guy.
00:14:38.160I knew he was funding liberal, you know, policies.
00:14:40.580And really, in any comment section, you see someone blaming whatever liberal thing going on on Soros.
00:14:45.980And I had come across things I knew were true.
00:14:49.040I had come across things that I thought were hyperbole.
00:14:51.140And I kind of started to realize, like, even the most outlandish sounding conspiracy theories were sort of directionally correct.
00:15:00.820So when someone says, you know, in the comment section, Soros was a Nazi who worked for Hitler, that's not literally true.
00:15:07.540But it is true when he was a teenager, the Nazis occupied Hungary.
00:15:12.020He was given a job by them to hand out deportation notices and summons to Jewish families.
00:15:48.400Now, in the book, I document all these cases from Soros' writing where he sort of is self-aware that he is narcissistic and sociopathic.
00:15:57.400But this is one of those cases where the, you know, crack in the facade has been revealed.
00:16:02.640And he actually has tried to walk it back.
00:16:04.760And if you look for sort of a mainstream media, like outside of conservative media, opinion on this interview, they try to spin it in his favor.
00:16:18.580But sort of the smoking gun in that encounter or in proving that the narrative he gave in 60 minutes of feeling no remorse is true is Soros' father penned an autobiography.
00:16:28.640And in it, he talks about his son George's upbringing and talks about that exact incident and recalls it as a job his son enjoyed doing.
00:16:36.540Another thing about Soros, too, during the Nazi occupation, his father, he had what he called his protector.
00:16:44.080His father assigned someone with him for George to live with.
00:16:48.020Soros has never in his life named who this person was, who presumably saved his life by saving him from the Nazis.
00:16:54.220And we didn't even find out his name until the Daily Mail revealed it many years after his death.
00:16:59.140So that's just the kind of guy Soros is.
00:17:01.460And you can take a hyperbolic claim of Soros as a Nazi and a fat cooker could say it's objectively true.
00:17:07.800But you go through the rabbit hole and it's really not much better.
00:17:11.740So that's just kind of a point I make is even the hyperbole, you go down that and it's a rabbit hole that leads you to something not equally disturbing, but pretty disturbing, I'd say.
00:17:20.460There's a lot about George Soros that is disturbing in his politics, his ideology, and his capacity, his awesome capacity through his billions of dollars to influence change on one level or to manipulate the entire political system, it seems, with all of that vast wealth that he possesses.
00:17:44.280As you say, the Open Society Foundation, $18 billion there, he's been funding it for years, they are involved in everything from illegal immigration to the election, as you document so terrifically.
00:18:04.060D.A.'s that are progressive beyond Marxist in terms of their approach to law enforcement, law and, if you will, punishment.
00:18:16.560Your thoughts on that part of his character and his enterprise and his motivation?
00:18:24.740So when it comes to the motives, you know, I think that's just what proves it's evil.
00:18:29.020Because, you know, there's a lot of political discussion.
00:18:32.280Like, if we were to debate an issue like, I don't know, should we fund a local library more?
00:18:37.780You know, it's not really a moral issue.
00:18:39.920It's a question of, okay, here's the pros and cons, and we can have an honest and open debate.
00:18:43.860When it comes to things like the, you know, the DAs, there's just, there's no counterargument.
00:18:49.340You know, I've gone through all the data, and in every single one of these cities that is a Soros-backed DA, crime goes up.
00:18:55.540And even if it's in a year where crime went up nationally, it goes up more in those cities.
00:19:00.840And they will try to spin it by saying, if they try to spin it at all by saying, like, well, we're focusing too much on, you know, enforcing laws against graffiti and parking tickets.
00:19:11.120Why aren't we fighting murder and rape?
00:19:13.040And, you know, if that was a legal theory of, hey, we'll stop enforcing lower-level things to focus on higher-level things, that's not happening.
00:19:20.760Because there's not one of these cities, one of these DAs who says they're going to do that that actually does it.
00:19:25.340What they do is they stop enforcing lower-level crimes and higher-level crimes.
00:19:29.620In fact, one of the women who I talked about in one of the Post articles, Buda Bibaraj, she's the Commonwealth attorney for Luton County.
00:19:38.100And she recently came out with these various policies she wasn't going to enforce and used the exact line of, you know, why enforce speeding tickets when we can go after, you know, sexual assault victims.
00:19:48.620And the irony is she, under her tenure, her first year in office, dismissed 92% of sexual assault cases.
00:19:55.600And her office actually got reduced funding because she wasn't doing enough to fight them.
00:19:59.660So, you know, she had the funding and lost it because she wasn't enforcing the law and then is going to enforce the law less to claim she's going to enforce the law that she just lost funding for not enforcing, which is, I know, a mouthful.
00:20:11.900But these are the people we're dealing with.
00:20:13.500And in the chapter in the book, it's – I just sort of give a rundown of here's who they are, here's how much – you know, here's the public statements that they were making, which I think are relevant because it shows what attracts Soros.
00:20:24.260And they are people who are clearly so insane that Soros wouldn't even have to tell them what to do.
00:20:29.580You can just tell by their philosophy that, you know, they talk about criminals in a way where criminals are the only true victims, that if you commit a crime, certainly there must have been something in your life where something went wrong or society in some way failed you.
00:20:42.900And it is a philosophy that just generates more criminals over and over and over, and we're seeing that in quite literally every Soros-backed city.
00:20:49.960The only data point in their favor is – and this is sort of another irony – is there are some Soros-backed – cities where there are Soros-backed DAs where crimes like shoplifting are going down.
00:21:02.300Yet we – you know, on paper, yet we see a record number of stores closing doing the shoplifting.
00:21:08.440We see the cost to insure these businesses going up.
00:21:12.600Well, it was the case under Chase Abudin.
00:21:14.880If you steal less than I think it was $1,000 or so, you don't get charged.
00:21:18.900So if you're a business owner and someone takes $500, if you call the police to report it, you're just costing yourself a half hour of time because nothing's going to happen.
00:21:28.000So there are certain crimes that have effectively been legalized, and now that they're effectively legalized, they're not getting reported as crimes.
00:21:35.220And that appears to be a data point in their favor, but it's just a statistical illusion, and every other data point is going in the other direction.
00:21:43.580You know, the lack of enforcement, especially in the post-George Floyd era, it even goes to things like speeding tickets and pulling people over for speeding.
00:21:52.240And there's been a statistically significant rise in auto fatalities for African-Americans relative to the rest of the population because cops actually stopped going after them as much in the wake of the George Floyd death.
00:22:04.980So we're just all across the board in every conceivable way you can imagine seeing a decline in enforcement.
00:22:11.380And the biggest victims are the people that progressives claim those policies will help.
00:22:14.860And you write about the fact he is the most dangerous – you write about him being the most dangerous man in America.
00:22:39.540It is everything to the exact opposite.
00:22:41.440It is – you know, it's hard to articulate, but it is just every single thing he funds seems to have the goal of fracturing society.
00:22:48.980And, you know, we see it in promoting illegal immigration.
00:22:52.020I mean, we always – we know that there are – you know, the costs of illegal immigration fiscally is in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:22:58.820But, you know, if that were the only cost, you know, at least, you know, it's in the context of a $30 trillion economy.
00:23:04.440I mean, the other big cost is, A, you know, we can't keep track of them when it comes to crime and disease.
00:23:11.400But then, in my opinion, the biggest problem is it fractures society.
00:23:15.220If you have these clusters within our cities or wherever, people don't speak the language.
00:23:19.900They don't know anything about our history.
00:23:21.620They have nothing in common culturally.
00:23:23.740And society is just sort of naturally fractured then.
00:23:26.020You know, people are far less likely to participate in their communities when they become diverse in that specific way.
00:23:30.960They're less likely to get to charity or even just do little niceties.
00:23:35.140So it is – Soros is funding every possible thing that could break down society in that regard.
00:23:39.460Well, one of the things that he funds is Arabella, the dark money group, connected as well to the 1630 fund to the – I mean – and the web just goes from there.
00:23:52.000As you talk about – and the man behind the curtain inside the secret network of George Soros, that is the heart of the secret network.
00:24:06.260Tom Perriello, for example, going to the Obama White House, the Biden White House, he has been – he should have frequent visitor miles for his visits to the Biden White House.
00:24:24.460Yeah, well, he's just one of many people.
00:24:26.720And, you know, this news broke recently, but there's been – it's been sort of a long time – or, you know, this is the latest edition, I should say.
00:24:33.280You know, in the book, I documented that even in the days following the presidential election, when he set up his transition team, and, you know, you have one transition team for each government agency or department,
00:24:43.660there were 17 people who worked for or headed those transition teams that were linked to Soros in some way, either working for a Soros-back group or one that he founded.
00:24:53.660And then even you go into the White House, we have Antony Blinken, whose parents have worked with Soros.
00:24:58.840There's actually an archive at Central European University named after his parents.
00:25:03.500You have Ron Klain, the outgoing chief of staff, and you have Neera Tanden as well, another higher up.
00:25:08.320And those two were connected through the Center for American Progress, which is also connected to the Clintons.
00:25:13.340But it is – you know, I can't prove these two things are linked, but a point I've sort of been making recently is it is interesting to see that Biden,
00:25:23.180who's obviously always been a man of the left, has pivoted so much further to the left in just the past five years, where I think he was to the right of Obama slightly.
00:25:32.480I mean, I don't know how I'd prove that, but my impression was that he was slightly to the right of Obama, which isn't very right-wing at all.
00:25:39.400But is now – I mean, whatever a fashionable progressive idea is to a 22-year-old is something that Biden will adopt.
00:25:48.660You know, even something like the – you know, someone like him adopting this sort of transgender platform would have been unthinkable five years ago.
00:25:55.400So, and I think it's – and it's not just Soros, but it's – he's clearly surrounded by people in his sphere and a lot of hyper-progressives,
00:26:02.260and he seems to be sort of losing it mentally, to put it mildly.
00:26:05.280And naturally speaking, they're going to have disproportionate influence on him.
00:26:09.420The – you know, I think I said in the New York Post piece, you know, it's finally a White House he can control because, you know,
00:26:16.060he's been known to donate to our elections, whether it be tens of millions of Hillary Clinton or John Kerry.
00:26:21.760But for us, fortunately, he just kind of lit that money on fire.
00:26:25.340With Biden, he really does seem to be getting results.
00:26:28.600And if not even policy-wise, he clearly – Biden's ideology has clearly shifted far to the left.
00:26:35.040As far to the left as one could have – farther left than anyone could have imagined just years ago.
00:26:42.120And the relationship with Obama, because Obama, it is generally felt, I believe, by many politicos, has a significant influence on this administration as well.
00:26:56.580What is the relationship between Obama and George Soros?
00:27:01.180So it was – and I don't mean to – I don't know if this portrays Obama in a sympathetic light or not.
00:27:23.680Soros, and I mean, to be fair, we only have Soros' account of this, but there was a New Yorker interview where he very much complains that he gave Obama all this money and then was shut out.
00:27:33.700And I think he said, like, I had a phone call with Obama that I wanted to last three minutes, but it lasted – I was able to stretch it to eight.
00:27:40.960Now, I don't mean to portray Obama in a positive light as someone who got one over on Soros.
00:27:46.440Obviously, he still took the guy's money.
00:28:26.440Basically, what he's saying is I tried to buy influence, and he said no, which it's almost – you know, you've got to hand it to Obama.
00:28:34.160But from Obama's perspective, it's just I'm going to take a bunch of money and push liberal policies even if it's not exactly what Soros wants.
00:28:40.580So it's not that redeeming, although it is mildly amusing.
00:28:58.700George Soros is a classic case that everyone should study, in my opinion, in political science because it shows the real danger of what we have done in this country with not-for-profits, non-governmental organizations who have outsized power.
00:29:18.040They are competing against government, certainly local and state government, and winning whenever they come up against them.
00:29:26.780They've also had significant impact on law itself, whether it's – on the conservative side, it's United Citizens.
00:29:35.420Without that non-profit, there would have not been that decision by, in my opinion, the Supreme Court.
00:29:44.680These NGOs and non-profits are very dangerous to this republic and our government, in my opinion.
00:29:53.560And they're especially toxic or dangerous in the third world because, you know, when there are countries that have unstable governments, the NGOs become the de facto government.
00:30:04.900They provide social services, education, et cetera.
00:30:07.360And in countries like the Balkan countries, that was – I spoke to some politicians there in researching the book, and, you know, I call it sort of the Pablo Escobar model where, you know, he was a famous drug lord but also would curry favor by building schools and hospitals to escape public opinion.
00:30:23.240Soros sort of does the same thing in poorer countries where, you know, from their perspective, if you're a poor person, the only thing you know about Soros is he's given me free stuff and no one else is.
00:30:34.040So they don't know all the back story, and the politicians there who can't provide for their citizens are at least grateful that someone's able to fill the gap.
00:30:43.860So they're very susceptible to corruption from Soros.
00:30:46.620So that's how he's able to buy influence, especially in those countries, though as we see in America, it's, you know, more through direct lobbying.
00:30:53.480But he's – I guess it's easier in those countries for him.
00:31:01.940He's the largest donor to the Democrat Party.
00:31:06.080But his – there's no articulation that I have been able to find of his philosophy, his ideology, anything expansive to understand better his motivation in all of this, his societal and political motivation.
00:31:24.740So admittedly, it's confusing to me because he describes it as being for what he calls an open society.
00:31:32.300It's a concept from a philosopher called Karl Popper who he studied under at the London School of Economics.
00:31:37.080And when you read what it purports to believe on paper about freedom and liberty, it appears to be a libertarian, which clearly is not what he believes.
00:31:46.400So I don't know if it's a window dressing or what.
00:31:49.760But he views America, and he has written that he views America as sort of the antithesis of one or at least needs great reforms.
00:31:56.480Meanwhile, his mentor, Karl Popper, said he believes America to be the embodiment of what an open society is.
00:32:03.260So even his mentor who created this concept seems to view our country as being exactly what he wants.
00:32:09.500Soros seems to interpret it differently.
00:32:11.380So I don't know what explains that gap if Soros is either misinterpreting it or misrepresenting it.
00:32:17.200But I would just say it's hyper-progressivism.
00:32:21.880Whatever the fashionable views of a college-age progressive is pretty much what Soros is in line with, which is just very odd for some of his age in particular.
00:32:32.960And one thing I noticed is when it comes to the type of propaganda he funds, if you were to go back in history and look at Soviet propaganda against America back in the 60s, 50s,
00:32:45.140it's very common to leftist propaganda today.
00:32:48.740So it's focusing on things like health care costing too much or being unfair that you have to pay for it, gun violence, and exaggerating racism.
00:32:56.740And state-funded outlets like Al Jazeera, which is by Qatar, today focus on those exact same issues to attack America.
00:33:04.300And clearly the reason they focus on those issues is because they think advertising those issues in America will fracture our society, will hurt us.
00:33:12.380They're not telling us these things to help us.
00:33:15.700Because that's exactly the type of narratives that Soros is providing.
00:33:19.480And it is, again, it is never with the purpose of, and here's what we need to do to get better.
00:33:24.500It's just to demonize the country and push it towards some sort of progressive idea.
00:33:28.780Yeah, it's almost the work of an anarchist because it doesn't have at its bedrock a philosophy and ideology that makes any sense at all.
00:33:39.560The closest I think I come to understanding the man's motivation is he grows up under Nazi totalitarianism.
00:33:52.760He is exposed to Soviet totalitarianism, and he has made a choice.
00:34:00.000He chose the Soviet totalitarianism, communism.
00:34:04.220That is the inferred ideology because the evidence of what he supports, what he seems motivated to create in this society is anti-American.
00:34:21.040And here is one of the most successful capitalists in all the world.
00:34:25.420He's a man of conflicts and some perversity, I think.
00:34:29.200I was going to say, in the book, I point out that if you compare hedge fund returns, in terms of what a dollar investor from inception would be worth today, I think he's second in world history after Ray Dalio.
00:34:42.900But the thing with Soros is there are the questions of how much of that is illegitimate.
00:34:47.580There was only two insider trading cases I can link to him in the book.
00:34:50.920But, you know, and I should probably do a follow-up trying to dig into that because, you know, I would imagine if we really digged through every single trade he's ever made, you could probably correlate it with politics.
00:35:01.760Maybe that will be the next project I work on.
00:35:04.400Well, there is a cynical saw that goes, behind every great fortune is a great crime.
00:35:13.320So you could use that as your working starting point.
00:35:29.220We love everything that you've unearthed here about Mr. Soros.
00:35:33.740And we'll remind you all the book is The Man Behind the Curtain Inside the Secret Network of George Soros.
00:35:41.260Matt Palumbo, I recommend his book to you, The Man Behind the Curtain.
00:35:44.920Thanks, everybody, for being with us today.
00:35:46.720Tomorrow here on The Great America Show, we'll have one of the Republican Party's standouts and leaders in the House, Congressman Austin Scott, on the path forward for the Republican-led 118th Congress, the Biden investigation, and how long has Biden been taking classified material from Senate and vice presidential offices.
00:36:06.980Also this week, Cash Patel, Cash on Biden and his new book, Government Gangsters, Dr. Robert Malone, on why, despite all of the science, masks are still being mandated, and how long will Big Pharma and the medical establishment ignore science and data.
00:36:24.840We'll also be joined by Wes Allen, Alabama's secretary of state, who has withdrawn Alabama from the controversial voter registration database, Eric.
00:36:35.040We'll have all of that and more this week.