Overview

• In a Wednesday post on Truth Social, the president said George Soros and his son should be charged under the RICO Act for allegedly supporting violent protests.
• He wrote that Soros and “a group of psychopaths” had harmed the United States and warned their “crazy friends on the West Coast” to be careful because “we are watching you.”
• The RICO statute, originally crafted to fight the Mafia, allows expansive charges against people or organizations deemed part of a criminal enterprise.
• Soros, a Hungary-born Holocaust survivor and prominent donor to liberal causes, has long been a target of criticism and conspiracy theories.
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has repeatedly attacked Soros over his political activities, a pattern noted alongside Trump’s latest broadside.