Trump says he may file RICO charges against George Soros or his family for funding paid protests

President Donald Trump, speaking from the White House Friday, said his administration is looking into filing RICO charges against George Soros or members of his ￰0￱ made the comments during a Fox News interview after being confronted by protesters at a Washington, ￰1￱ earlier this week. “Protesters get paid for their profession from Soros and other people,” Trump said. “And we’re going to look into Soros, because I think it’s a RICO case against him and other ￰2￱ this is more than like ￰3￱ is real agitation.” The remarks were made during Trump’s sit-down with Fox, according to the full segment broadcast ￰4￱ RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) is usually aimed at dismantling organized criminal ￰5￱ didn’t clarify which Soros relative might be involved or name any organizations under ￰6￱ this isn’t the first time Trump has called for an ￰7￱ previous speeches, he’s attacked Soros and “his wonderful Radical Left son,” without specifying which son.

George’s son Alex Soros currently chairs the board of Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s biggest philanthropic groups tied to liberal ￰8￱ renewed interest in launching a federal investigation follows the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a close Trump ￰9￱ links political funding to financial chaos, points to Soros bets Soros has long been linked to massive financial ￰10￱ profited from one of the biggest currency trades in ￰11￱ up to Black Wednesday in September 1992, Soros’s fund had sold short over $10 billion in British pounds, believing the UK’s entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism was ￰12￱ British government refused to raise interest rates or float the ￰13￱ pound ￰14￱ UK was forced to withdraw.

Soros’s profit: over $1 ￰15￱ UK Treasury lost £3.4 ￰16￱ was believed to have traded billions of Finnish markkas in 1996, expecting the currency to ￰17￱ authorities said they saw no evidence of any ￰18￱ 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused Soros of deliberately punishing ASEAN countries for accepting ￰19￱ referenced Soros’s Jewish background during the accusations, calling him “a Jew who triggered the currency plunge.” In 2006, Mahathir changed course after meeting Soros and accepted that he had not been ￰20￱ later wrote in his book The Crisis of Global Capitalism that his fund had shorted the Thai baht and Malaysian ringgit in early 1997, with contracts ranging from six months to a ￰21￱ said they later bought those currencies to lock in gains, but moved too early, fearing Malaysia would impose capital controls, which eventually ￰22￱ also tried shorting the Hong Kong dollar during that time using similar ￰23￱ China backed the peg, and Hong Kong’s currency stayed stable.

Soros’s fund lost most of the money bet against the ￰24￱ court found Soros guilty of insider trading after 14-year case In 1988, Soros was contacted by Georges Pébereau, a French financier who tried to organize a takeover of Société Générale and other companies under France’s privatization ￰25￱ didn’t join the group but bought shares in Société Générale, Suez, Paribas, and Compagnie Générale d’Électricité. French regulators launched an investigation in 1989, but found no evidence of insider ￰26￱ case was reopened years ￰27￱ June 14, 2006, the French Supreme Court ruled Soros guilty and fined him €940,000. Soros denied any wrongdoing, claiming the information he had was public and that he had already planned to buy the shares before learning of the ￰28￱ appealed the conviction to the European Court of Human Rights in 2006, arguing the 14-year delay violated his right to a fair trial under Article 7 of the European Convention on Human ￰29￱ October 2011, the court rejected his appeal in a 4–3 decision, saying Soros should’ve known the risks of trading with non-public information about a ￰30￱ crypto news deserves attention - KEY Difference Wire puts you on 250+ top sites