The president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations demanded that Fox News ban former federal prosecutor and Trump ally Joe diGenova for claiming that the Hungarian-American billionaire “controls a very large part of the career foreign service of the United States State Department.”
In response to diGenova’s comments, Open Society president Eric Wemple said in a Friday letter to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott that diGenova’s comments are “beyond fiction” and “beyond ludicrous.”
Last night, yet again, Fox gave air time to McCarthyism. This has to stop. My letter to @FoxNews:
cc @ErikWemple @brianstelter pic.twitter.com/qMdSfE94Xk— Patrick Gaspard (@patrickgaspard) November 14, 2019
Others, such as ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt, suggested diGenova was using an ‘anti-Semitic trope’ against Soros, who is Jewish.
Invoking #Soros as controlling the State Dept, FBI, and Ukraine is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes. @FoxNews won’t have Chris Farrell on for making similar remarks, and they should hold the same standard for @JoeDiGenova. https://t.co/IbCQCdXZfL
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) November 14, 2019
As The Hill’s John Solomon reported in March, in 2016 Obama administration officials sought to suppress a Ukrainian corruption probe into an NGO bankrolled by both the US government and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.
When Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office tried to investigate an alleged misallocation of $4.4 million in US funds, which was supposed to go toward anti-corruption initiatives, US embassy officials came down hard to shut down the investigation altogether. “We ran right into a buzzsaw and we got bloodied,” a senior Ukrainian official told The Hill.
Notably, former State Department official George Kent (One of the Democrats’ star witnesses in Wednesday’s public impeachment hearings), recommended in April 2016 that Ukraine stop investigating a Soros-funded entity in Ukraine, AntAC.
“The investigation into the Anti-Corruption Action Center (sic), based on the assistance they have received from us, is similarly misplaced,” wrote Kent.
While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.
The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and the group. –The Hill
DiGenova, an attorney for Solomon, may be included in a batch of communications that a federal judge ordered the State Department to hand over regarding Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s communications with top department officials.
The judge ruled that the department had 30 days to turn over the documents, but that both parties needed to meet to narrow the scope of American Oversight’s request.
The State Department is agreeing to search for records related to external communications between Giuliani, his associates Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to the status report released Wednesday.
The report says that “to the extent responsive records exist” the State Department will “process and produce” the documents “with appropriate redactions” by Nov. 22.
The department has also agreed to process communications between Giuliani and some of Pompeo’s advisers, including including State Department counselor Ulrich Brechbuhl and former senior adviser Michael McKinley. –The Hill
The State Department search for records will include a review of emails, text messages, calendar entries and messaging platforms – as well as any correspondence regarding Giuliani, Toensing or diGenova’s plans to travel to Ukraine or encourage the country’s government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who have been accused of corruption.
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You know you’re over the target when they pushback to this degree.
If diGenova’s statements are “beyond fiction” and “beyond ludicrous”, then why doesn’t Eric Wemple put his money where his mouth is and file a law suit for defamation, libel and slander? My guess is diGenova is not lying and it is hard to sue someone for telling the truth!
Foggy Bottom has always been just a bureaucrat away from a disaster. This goes back in history and includes times where Woodrow Wilson used COL House rather than Secretary of State Lansing as his chief player after WW1 and the Versailles Treaty period. Additionally FDR used Harry Hopkins for direct discussion with Stalin and side stepped the entire state department. This is nothing new and we have hitlary and John “Lurch” Kerry to thank for staging this clown show.
Anyway…George Soros has much to answer for. His record goes all the way back to the 1930’s in Hungary when he “ratted out” fellow Jews to the Schutzstaffell (SS) and then took their belongings and pointed out to the Nazi’s the best apartments. Nice guy….
Trump knows the score with soros. They party together on Long Island. Not long ago TBP posted a picture of soros together with ivanka and kushner. My guess is that the stories of soros bailing trump’s bankrupt ass out of those loser casinos in Atlantic City are true.
It will be interesting to see if the Republicans can reveal any of this in their questioning of former Ukrainian ambassador Marie Yovanovitch today. She was hired in August 2016 to clean-up the mess over there when it became evident that Trump might win the election. it is also a fact that Ukrainian officials have claimed her activist interference in their politics defied the Geneva convention.
Guess we’ll find out what happens in a few hours…
So, a judge ordered the State Dept. to release records with appropriate redactions.
That’ll get to the bottom of it.
Sarc off.
Even if they comply w this robe’s order, after many delays, the redactions will shield guilty parties under the guise of national security privacy protection interests.
Follow the money.
And note where the loyalties lie, with the parties under investigation. Corruption reigns.
Old moneybags with the baggy eyes has a known track record of shelling out cash to multiple groups who whore out their agenda actions no matter how ill conceived and in opposition to the righteous people with a different set of values & priorities.
Hell, even Hungary denounced him.
Why can’t he be stopped?
Cabal vampire squid has tentacles everywhere. Evil. Corrupt. Too many involved to count, let alone round up, and prosecute quickly and efficiently.
“Why can’t he be stopped?”
I have often wondered about that myself.
His survival seems to scream the power and control of the Luciferians and the weakness and lack of reach of the White Hats.
Coupled with the bizzare Schiff hearing on TV this morning about Ukraine leaves me concluding the place has been a real kakistocracy and the Progs/Commies/Dhimmicrats were involved in criminality beyond what even cynics are used to. A mafia state where filth like the Clintons and Soreass feel right at home.
The artist formerly known as Harrington Richardson
If Fox is stupid enough to ban Joe & Victoria, they will lose a lot more credibility & probably many viewers. Joe & Vic would be welcome with open arms at One America News Network & NewsMax.
Wimpy said Joe was doing McCarthyism. Thing is, McCarthy was right. We see that in the deep state now. Also the media of the day ran cover for the satanists, err, communists just like they do today. Only these days they don’t hide it much.
An example of the ‘old school’ deep state:
Global Governance Award? What’s up with that?
SamFox