Trump thinks Georgia is fighting Soros. They’re just playing him

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On Aug. 27, 2025, President Donald Trump wrote that George Soros and his son should be charged under the federal racketeering law. That same day, a court in Tbilisi froze the bank accounts of the Civil Society Foundation, the renamed Georgian branch of Soros’s Open Society network, in a “sabotage” case opened on a complaint from a pro-government group.

Americans might read the two events as one fight. They are not. In Georgia, the war over Soros is fought between people who came out of the same donor world.

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