Forbes cleans up on aisle Soros

Democrats' defense of Nazi tattoo-bearer/U.S. senatorial candidate Graham Platner is reprehensible. That scandal, though, has ugly company.

For the purpose of 10/20/2025 George Soros PR puffery, Forbes writer Ty Roush hefted the Fake News banner. He branded as a "baseless conspiracy theory" the assertion that, when 14 years-old, Soros bore witness (without protest) to Third Reich-era Nazis seizing Jewish property.

Before I tear down Roush's fabulism, consider these verbatim quotes from Soros himself, made during a 1998 interview with CBS 60 Minutes host Steve Kroft:

KROFT: "You're a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian."

SOROS: "Right."

KROFT: "And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps."

SOROS: "Right. I was 14 years-old. And I would say that's when my character was made."

KROFT: "In what way?"

SOROS: "That one should think ahead. That one should understand and anticipate events. And when one is threatened - it was a tremendous threat of evil, a very personal experience of evil."

KROFT: "My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted [Christian] godson. Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews."

SOROS: "That's right."

KROFT: "I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?"

SOROS: "Not at all, not at all. Maybe as a child, you don't see the connection. But it was -- it created no problem, at all."

KROFT: "No feeling of guilt?"

SOROS: "No."

KROFT: "For example: 'I'm Jewish, and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.' None of that?"

SOROS: "Well, of course I could be on the other side, or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, because that was -- well, actually, in a funny way, it's just like in markets. That if I weren't there -- of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would be taking it away, anyhow."

In a 2023 Jerusalem Post essay, Larry Pfeffer observed "By his insensitive logic, German, Japanese, and Russian soldiers could also have exclaimed that they don't need to regret raping women, since if they didn't, then someone else would have."

Forbes' Roush noted the Soros 60 Minutes interview. But he did not nmention that the subject had, in that same interview, conceded the allegation's soundness.

In his article, "Trump targets George Soros: Billionaire accused of funding 'No Kings' protests," Roush denied the fact of Soros' complicity.

One passage in Roush's Forbes article was titled "Soros strangely accused of collaborating with Nazis." 

It read: "Another baseless conspiracy theory circulated on social media in 2018 claiming Soros, whose family survived the Nazis' occupation of Hungary and the Holocaust, collaborated with the Nazis. The movement gained steam after actress Roseanne Barr, who spread several conspiracies in a social media frenzy, wrote, 'George Soros is a Nazi who turned in his fellow Jews [to] be murdered in German concentration camps and stole their wealth.' Barr’s message was shared by Donald Trump Jr., who later denied having shared 'anything that was antisemitic.' Alex Jones supported Barr’s claims and alleged Soros admitted to collaborating with Nazis in a 1998 interview—though Soros told 60 Minutes he experienced a 'tremendous evil, a very personal experience of evil.'"

(Interesting is that Roush savaged Roseanne Barr, though the Forbes functionary omitted that Barr, herself, is Jewish. Acknowledging the comedienne's own Jewishness would have rendered Roush's flackery awkward, if not impossible.)

14 year-old Soros settled upon his choice for self-preservation's sake, in a doubtlessly terrifying moment. But he was quite old when 60 Minutes profiled him, and could no longer find refuge behind the excuse of immaturity. He rationalized it.

So, recall Soros's 1998 public admission, and his contemporary lack of moral qualms about his involvement, when next you hear Democrats he supports falsely smear Trump as Hitler, and compare MAGA patriots to Nazis.

Reflect, too, on the verity of President Trump's frequent admonition that the mainstream press is an enemy of the American people. 

Roush's choreographed deceits may keep Forbes wage envelopes streaming his way, but they do dirt to legitimate interests of journalistic accuracy and public knowledge.

(The intended nature of this piece was specified in a 10/24 request for comment that was emailed to Roush. He did not respond.)

Iowa's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous Iowa papers. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

MAGA must assert our noble values                     by DC Larson

Members of the Young Republicans organization posted odious messages they (wrongly) considered funny on that group's internet chat. Contained in posts were racist and antisemitic slurs, as well as - flabbergastingly - praise for megalomaniacal evildoer Adolf Hitler.

Some included in the despicable number, per the New York Post, are Kansas Young Republicans' Chair William Hendrix; Bobby Walker, erstwhile chair of the New York state Young Republicans; former New York Young Republicans Chair Peter Giunta; and Joe Maligno, New York Young Republicans' one-time general counsel. 

"Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and Kool-Aid with that?”  asked Hendrix, in a July post. 

Politico cited other comments, allegedly also from the same chat line. These included "I love Hitler," "I'm ready to watch people burn now," "I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to see monkeys play ball," more than one positively referencing "gas chambers," another deriding black American citizens as "watermelon people," and insistence that all Jews are dishonest.

Several repugnant perpetrators have already been booted curbward  by employers. Hopefully, more will follow. I love it when justice lands hard on bad people.

Social media platforms teem with righteous castigations. Mine, sent directly to the vermin at issue via Elon Musk's X, declared simply: "Get the hell out of MAGA! We're better than you, and you're not us!" 

Unfortunately, since persons in consequential stations are asked to pose for photos with thousands, annually, shots exist of Trump partisans together with some of these dirt-charactered reprobates. These must not be assumed as establishing philosophical oneness.

The filth spewed by guilty parties is falsely cast by woke Democrat subversives as representative of the MAGA movement as a whole. That is a lie, of course, levelled by scummy contrivers who surely are themselves cognizant of their rhetoric's perfidiousness.

As contemptible as this matter is, it's a minor one. Trump opponents may exploit it, in attempts to smear him and his backers, but it hardly overshadows successes the president has achieved in economic, trade, and national security. 

Trump has slammed tight the border door. And his crackdown on crime has produced a 250% increase in arrests.

(His firm backing of Israel, and his historic bringing peace to the Mideast, probably brought angry tears to the eyes of scattered venomous weasels who'd infiltrated the Republican Party.)

In a recent, disappointing video message, Tucker Carlson (of whom I've long been an admirer) effectively championed amorality, misrepresented the 20-and-30-something offenders as "boys," and ridiculed those who believe goodness merits standing up.

Of course, Carlson did not quote any of the noxious posts. Doing so would render defenses impossible. Instead, he pooh-poohed them in absentia as "naughty" ones, sent by wayward "boys." 

Vice President Vance (for whom I proudly cast a ballot and still vigorously support) also downplayed the messages.

Politico quoted Vance as saying "The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke — is cause to ruin their lives.”

Again, grown men are not children. If they were, prison yards would have swing sets.

I understand the thinking that giving attention to isolated internet ravings, rancid though they indisputably are, risks supplying ammunition to foes. And there is merit to that position.

But some things are so egregious, they howl for thunderous excoriation. And giving outrageous moral wrongs kid-glove care comes close to making MAGA critics appear to be onto something - when of course, they are not.

Better to bolster MAGA's hygiene by excommunicating scum. You know what they say about cleanliness.

Carlson and Vance's minimization attempts - that a larger cause not suffer - reminds exactly of monomaniacal no-borders zealots who pretend illegals' rapes and murders are not worth consideration, lest their (foolish) crusade be imperiled.

Wrong is wrong, and saying so is a mark of good character. Calling hate by its rightful name, and publicly distancing oneself from it, is legitimate and laudable.

Not to virtue signal for the benefit of onlookers, but to assert our own values.

Waterloo's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous Iowa papers.. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.

Democrats offer darkness, but new light shines

Democrats today seem to reason: "If we win the White House, we'll do whatever we please. And if we don't win, we'll still do whatever we please."

Gone is the fair-play custom of accepting loss and working with the winner to advance American interests, while safeguarding basic ideals and pondering future electoral strategies. Sabotage, non-cooperation, and constant disruption are now Democrats' favored methods. 

They are the worst of bad losers. They perpetrate wrongdoings, comforted by the knowledge that a conga line of black-robed quislings will condone any malfeasance, no matter how flagrant.

The public's preferences, shown by Trump's November trouncing of his Democrat opponent, matter not to gilded zealots.

Witness the Schumer Shutdown, in which venomous progressives demand their curious fancies (like taxpayer-funding of health care for illegals and sex-surgeries in Uganda) all be granted - or no American gets anything. 

Lawlessness is rampant in U.S. cities, many of which have traditionally been Democrat run. Rabble surge through streets, chanting imbecilities in disorganization, hurling bricks and explosives at law enforcement officers, setting cars and buildings ablaze, and assaulting innocent passersby. 

Mob criminality is smiled upon by many elected Democrats. They enthusiastically pump oxygen into upheavals, doubtlessly grasping for electoral gain from rabid bombthrowers.

Some Democrat cities' officials declare them "sanctuary" ones, in which duly-enacted immigration laws are ignored. ICE agents who risk great danger by seeking to enforce American laws are villified in Democrat rhetoric, while city-burning thugs' praises are bellowed by unpatriotic schemers.

Small-pond poohbahs bar police from aiding federal law enforcement brothers and sisters. They charge ICE presence causes agitators' violence. That's akin to blaming Officer O'Shaghnessy, whistling "Oh, My Papa" and whirling his billyclub on the corner, for pickpocketing.

"Riot Inc." is the name given to extreme-left bankrollers of violent subversion. It bears remark that mentally-disheveled agitators, who typically rail against billionaires, never complain about their own moneyed patrons. 

Left-wing fat cats include not only Reid Hoffman and George Soros, but also Marc Cuban, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Steyer, and Neville Roy Singham.

During a recent White House roundtable, Seamus Bruner noted "It’s not just Antifa, but there is a whole ecosystem of radical, professional protesting organizations." Seamus, the research director at Government Accountability Institute, described Riot Inc. as a corporate-style operation whose divisions include ones for street agitation and violence, marketing, public relations, and legal guidance.

(As President Trump has observed, the admixture of Osteoarthritic Wavy Gravies and wet-eared, campus-crawling lackwits enamored of Marxist garbage-heartedness typically heft professionally manufactured signage; hardly indicative of grassroots origination.)

Americans saw Democrat skullduggery before these malicious sideshows. Remember choreographed nationwide lawfare? Remember plotted artifices to deprive voters of the Trump option by tearing him from states' ballots?

When those grimy trickeries rightly went down to ignominious defeat, and average citizens' constitutional rights to cast votes for the candidate of their choice was victorious, Democrats turned to knee-jerk contrarianism and uncivilized mayhem. 

But an optimistic light does shine.

An October seven Newsmax poll (in which this writer participated) found 66% of respondents approve of President Trump's performance, and believe Trump will restore America's economy to greatness. 66% also favored Trump over predeccessor Joe Biden, who received a scant 33% support.

A CNN poll, also dated October seven, recorded a 52% majority affirming that President Trump is doing what we elected him for.

The previous day, CNBC's Joe Kemen put Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in his place, citing facts inconvenient to America-haters. Kemen said, "All I can tell you is that the inflation rate itself was 2.7% in the most recent read, year over year, versus, it got to a high of 9% under Biden."

The CNBC host continued. "Stocks are at record highs. Unemployment is 4.2% That's full employment. The GDP was 3%. The border is actually secure. We've got trade deals with EU, Japan, many more in the works, and trillions of dollars of foreign investment coming here."

'Dollar Store Obama' could only regurgitate focus-group tested, bumper-sticker slogans.

All Democrats offer is despair. With Trump, brightness shines.

Waterloo, Iowa's DC Larson is the author of That a Man Can Again Stand Up and Ideas Afoot. He counts among freelance credits the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller, The Iowa Standard, American Thinker, and numerous Iowa papers.. His political blog is American Scene Magazine.