re: #101 mattand

What’s the story behind the “Soros was a traitor” stuff? That line keeps breaking my bullshit meter.

I forget where I saw it (Maddow, possibly) but I thought the deal was something along the lines he was forced to tag along as the Nazis rounded people up. No actual traitor-ing involved.

As a young teenager, he was staying with a man who was a collaborator of some kind, I think he cleared out the homes of people who’d been rounded up and sorted stuff for auction, IIRC. Soros may have gone with this man on ‘work’, and ran errands for him.

He lived through the war. This is, you know, to real people, a blessing and a triumph, that one more young boy didn’t end up dead in the camps.

Asked about this in an interview years later, Soros refused to do ‘pathetic survivor’ on cue, and said he did not feel guilty for doing what he needed to in order to survive.

If he gave money to right-wing causes, these godforsaken assholes who attack him about it would consider him a profile in courage. This is the most vile and blatant bullshit.