George Soros, tell us how you really feel.
The 87-year-old billionaire clearly isn’t shy about expressing his liberal views and distaste for Trump’s “America First” platform, and the Washington Post gave him an opportunity to unload in a recent interview[1].
And unload he did.
During the hourlong chat from Zurich, Switzerland last week, the Hungarian-born hedge-fund luminary told the Post he has no doubts about the validity of his negative take on Trump: He’s a “narcissist” who “considers himself all-powerful.”
Soros, who plans to spend at least $15 million in the 2018 races, admits to being caught off-guard when Trump won the election. “Apparently, I was living in my own bubble,” he said, adding that if Democrats win and forge a relationship with moderate Republicans, he would lean toward impeaching Trump “because he is endangering the United States and the world.”
Through his Open Society Foundations, Soros spends almost a billion dollars a year across 100 countries to promote free speech and free elections, as well as another $150 million a year backing the ACLU and Planned Parenthood
“The bigger the danger, the bigger the threat, the more I feel engaged to confront it,” said the man who has been accused by his detractors of being a puppet master and Nazi sympathizer. “So in that sense, yes, I redouble my efforts.”
As for his foes, Soros says he’s proud to have accumulated so many. “When I look at the enemies I have all over the world,” he told the Post, “I must be doing something right.”...
References
- ^ a recent interview (www.washingtonpost.com)