Did Maria Bartiromo Inspire Trump’s Tweet About George Soros Puppet-Mastering Sex Assault Protestors?
Today President Donald Trump stirred up a buzz of controversy with a tweet (what’s new?) and it caused some to wonder what prompted it. In the past, it has been demonstrably the case that something he saw on Fox News Channel prompted a tweet or even, in the case of a Tucker Carlson segment, prompted apparent executive action.
Today’s tweet may have been Fox-inspired as well. In this case, by Mario Bartiromo on the Fox Business Network. In Trump’s tweet, he said that “very rude elevator screamers”, referring to protesters who have been confronting GOP Senators over how they’ll vote on Brett Kavanaugh, are “paid professionals” funded by extreme left-wing billionaire and activist George Soros.
That’s exactly what Bartiromo said both yesterday and this morning.
On Thursday, in a brief remark, Bartiromo mentioned it to Alan Dershowitz.
BARTIROMO: It has been this whole strategy on the left ever since Donald Trump became president: shame you online, you know, criticize you and name call you on social media, go ambush you at elevator, chase you out of restaurants.
DERSHOWITZ: The ACLU has turned — when I was on the national board was a neutral civil liberties organization. Today it is a get Trump, get Kavanaugh, run candidates, raise money, money money, money. And they’re raising their money not from civil libertarians, but from people who only care about getting Trump, who only care about political results, the death Nell of ACLU is such a sad day in America. It was such a great organization. Today ACLU stands for anti-civil liberties union. That’s a tragedy.
BARTIROMO: That’s terrible. That is a tragedy, and now we know that money is moving things George Soros paying for a lot of these ambushes we’ve learned.
Today, she did a long segment on it with guest the Washington Examiner’s Hugo Gurdon.
We understand it is George Soros paid companies that are paying these protesters to go and get in your face and attack people who are suggesting a positive on Brett Kavanaugh.
It has also been a topic recently for Laura Ingraham on Fox News, and yesterday they ran this report.
Although FBN is the most likely trigger, and Bartiromo’s segment from today was perfectly timed for morning tweeting by the President, the subject has come up in other outlets recently. At the Free Beacon, Joe Schofstall reported that Ana Archila, who confronted Jeff Flake in an elevator, is co-executive director of a Soros-backed activist group with a huge budget and that has taken credit for some of the organizing of the protests.
Watch the clips above, courtesy of Fox News.
[Featured image via screengrab]
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