Far-left billionaire kingmaker George Soros and his household members have poured greater than $71,000 into state Lawyer Common Letitia James’ marketing campaign coffers since 2019 — together with $31,000 to assist the longtime adversary of President Trump get re-elected subsequent 12 months.
The contributions embody $18,000 from Soros in July 2024 and one other $13,000 from his daughter-in-law, Jennifer Soros, in Could, data present. Soros and his clan additionally gave James one other $40,000 courting again to 2019 for earlier campaigns.
And the windfall doesn’t even embody oblique assist James receives by far-left organizations Soros helps bankroll, together with tens of millions to the Working Households Social gathering.
Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making community Open Society Basis has doled out $23.7 million to the WFP since 2016 by its fundraising arm Working Households Group Inc., and he and his members of the family showered the New York department with one other $865,000 in direct donations since 2018, data present.
James’ relationship with the WFP is all however unprecedented in New York.
In 2003, she turned the primary Working Households Social gathering candidate to win a race within the state when she was elected to a Council seat representing Fort Greene and different elements of Brooklyn.
James declined the WFP line for her profitable 2018 run for Lawyer Common in a strategic transfer that noticed her as a substitute run as a Democrat underneath a ticket with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
However she has continued to embrace the get together’s progressive values and picked up its endorsement in her 2022 re-election marketing campaign.
“George Soros has spent years financing the unconventional left’s most excessive initiatives, and the end result is nearly all the time the identical: instability and dysfunction that’s destroying our state,” mentioned Michael Henry, a industrial litigator and Republican operating to unseat James in 2026.
“We noticed it with [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg, so nobody must be shocked that [Soros] is closely backing Letitia James’ ideological crusades and political vendettas that put New Yorkers’ security on the again burner.
“When the identical donor who funds chaos underwrites New York’s prime legislation enforcement workplace, the outcomes communicate for themselves,” he added.
James has garnered nationwide consideration by pursuing a slew of lawsuits in opposition to the Trump administration and the president personally — together with making good on a 2018 marketing campaign pledge to research Trump’s actual property dealings.
James’ case alleging the true property tycoon-turned-president engaged in fraud by exaggerating his web price for many years is ongoing, however Trump scored an enormous victory in August when a state appellate panel threw out the extra than $500 million fines he was slapped with as a part of the proceedings.
James has had her personal share of authorized troubles with Trump’s Division of Justice as she was indicted in October on mortgage fraud expenses associated to a property she owns in Virginia.
James pleaded not responsible, and the case was dismissed in November with out going to trial. Since then, a number of makes an attempt by the DOJ to re-indict her have failed.
The president has repeatedly accused Soros of being behind the authorized challenges introduced in opposition to him by James, Bragg and different far-left prosecutors.
The White Home didn’t return messages.
Soros not directly helped the soft-on-crime Bragg’s profitable 2021 DA marketing campaign by donating $1 million to advocacy group Shade of Change’s political motion committee, which in flip spent greater than $500,000 on mailers, adverts and subject operations boosting Bragg.
Soros and his members of the family have additionally donated $43,150 to Bragg immediately since 2021 — together with $22,500 since June, data present.
Michael Vachon, a Soros spokesman, refused to deal with the donations.
The legal professional normal’s workplace didn’t return messages, and James’ marketing campaign spokesperson couldn’t be reached for remark.
