Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler concluded that the “incendiary claim that George Soros funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg” is “simply false,” but only by conflating the operative question with a series of unrelated ones. Republicans have bashed the impending indictment of former president Donald Trump as the politically motivated act of a “Soros-funded” prosecutor, which Kessler deems as a “slippery” descriptor.

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