Posted on 06/08/2020 5:46:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Candace Owens first guessed and then continually claimed that George Soros and the foundations he founded had “funded the chaos” in Minneapolis.
Soros and Open Society Foundations say they do not support violence.
Open Society Foundations has not given grants to organizations to support violent protesting.
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has been accused for years of directly funding and even orchestrating protests.
This includes false claims that Soros financially supported the first national Women’s March and organized the Charlottesville, Va., protests and counter-protests in 2017.
In a series of tweets, Candace Owens, a conservative commentator, claimed that George Soros and his Open Society Foundations had hired the protesters that started fires and raided stores during protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd.
The Minneapolis chief of police just confirmed that many of the protesters that are burning down the city are NOT FROM MINNEAPOLIS.
My guess: As he did with Antifa, Democrat George Soros has these thugs on payroll.
He is funding the chaos via his Open Society Foundation. pic.twitter.com/ZWDQfLUjfa— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) May 28, 2020
She at first tweeted that it was her "guess" that "Democrat George Soros has these thugs on payroll. He is funding the chaos via his Open Society Foundation." She went on to tweet that the foundation had to "throw money at black Americans to riot" and that Soros and the foundation "got what you wanted in Minnesota." We reached out to Owens for additional comment and did not hear back.
Open Society Foundations is a liberal grant-making network that is "the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights." Their network funds programs in more than 120 countries, including work in the United States that "focuses on immigration and criminal justice reform, improving democratic participation, and supporting free and independent media."
The Open Society Foundations’ official Twitter account responded to her tweet that they "oppose all violence and do not pay people to protest" and that these were "baseless allegations."
Hi Candace, Mr. Soros and the Open Society Foundations oppose all violence and do not pay people to protest.
We lament the effort, through baseless allegations, to distract from the crisis of police brutality in Minneapolis and in too many other parts of the country.
An Open Society Foundations representative told PolitiFact that the foundation "supports the First Amendment right of all Americans to make their voices heard and petition their government for redress of grievances." However, when it comes to rioting, "George Soros and the foundations oppose violence in any and all forms," they said.
The foundation does give grants every one or two years to U.S. organizations that work to "advance racial justice and to make police forces more accountable to the communities they serve." They then listed a few, including the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, a website that keeps a database of resources and grassroot organizations related to policing in the United States.
PolitiFact could find no evidence that Soros or the Open Society Foundations had contributed to any organization that financed street protests in Minneapolis.
Owens also claimed that the Open Society Foundations gave $33 million to the Black Lives Matter movement.
The claim that George Soros funded the Ferguson protests and Black Lives Matter was checked by Snopes in 2015, and it received a mixed rating. Snopes said that Open Society Foundations has donated $33 million to organizations that have worked with Black Lives Matter or worked to raise awareness during the Ferguson-related protests. However, they had never given money to groups for the express purpose of organizing protests with the movement.
The representative from Open Society Foundations said that their grants are made to organizations to help them "support communities and advance policy change."
We didn’t find any evidence that the foundation has given money directly to the Black Lives Matter movement. The most recent connection they have with the organization is their 2018 grant of $279,860 to Release Leads, a UK organization that mostly focuses on international drug use education and policy reform, but also organizes public speaking events that feature the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK.
Our ruling
Owens’ tweet that Soros was "funding the chaos" in Minneapolis through Open Society Foundations is unproven. She continued to claim that the foundation had paid protesters after Open Society Foundations denied it on Twitter.
There is no evidence that Soros or the foundation had given any grants to organizations that funded and organized "the chaos" in Minneapolis. We rate this claim False.
So they laundered the money first...
How can you claim something false with no evidence either way? Could it be you didn’t look well enough if at all?
An example of spin used to cover the backwash of donoring to BLM is the Tides Foundation. They are financially supporting the BLM movement with massive “donations” from people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and George Soros.
Her are a couple of sources from Soros:
George Soros’ Foundation to Promote Open Society: $10,259,289
George Soros’ Open Society Foundations: $12,130,241
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tides-foundation/
Hard to hide numbers, but if the looking people don’t, it makes it a lot easier.
rwood
Word play. Substitute the word ‘riot’ for ‘protest’ in the title and it and the reality emerges.
This is a lie by conflation.
He pays other organizations to pay people to protest.
I would say devious. He has enough money that he can pretty well hide his involvement and make “suggestions” about things he think “should” change and his subordinates will pass it down and then their contacts will pass it even lower and then something will happen. “Wasn’t me!”
OK, he pays organizations that pay people to protest (and riot).
A distinction without a difference.
After reading the history and activities of the TIDES Foundation, it is clear to me that, it is a classic criminal operation.
The person who organized the infamous ACORN fraud had a $1 million dollar problem...and Pike at Tides paid it off.
And front and center is...TA DA...George Schwartz/Soros.
What an eyeopener. Thanks, Red.
If any truth harms the commies, it is false.
Yes I heard George didn’t pay his tab
Yes, they do. With US taxpayer money.
There are no facts at Politi”Fact.”
Do you links supporting this info per Poynter?
Strange, yesterday I saw a video of someone admitted he got paid to protest by Soro organization, he even recommenced to visit the site to sign up. Could be fake news
Herr SSoro$ funnels it through enough of his own channels to provide plausible deniability. But claiming he didn’t fund it is like claiming the Hillary Clinton campaign didn’t fund the dossier.
Steele paid Russians to provide disinformation.
Steele was paid by Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS was paid by Perkins Coie.
Perkins Coie was paid by the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
The way Herr SSoro$ funds riots is similar to tha above, only with more layers.
Snopes is even less reliable than Politi"Fact."
False. Race rioting is what Black Lives Matter does.
So Herr SSoro$’s subsidiary says that Herr SSoro$ isn’t funding the riots.
And we’re supposed to believe them???
It gives him plausible deniability.
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