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What Trump's appointment of a Soros protege tells us about the right's real priorities

JL;DR SUMMARY Emily Tamkin explores the irony of President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of Scott Bessent, a former associate of George Soros, to lead the Treasury Department despite Trump's persistent propagation of antisemitic conspiracy theories against Soros. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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George SorosDonald TrumpPhilanthropyGreat Replacement TheoryAntisemitic Conspiracy TheoriesScott BessentOpen Society FoundationsTreasury DepartmentEconomic Influence

Places mentioned

United Kingdom
"1992 breaking of the Bank of England, in which Soros led a group of investors in betting against the pound so successfully that its value came crashing down, leading Britain to exit the European exchange rate mechanism."
Mar-a-Lago, Florida, United States
"demand to find the Soros of the right, as happened at an election celebration at Trumps Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago."
United States
"2018, the then-president said he wouldnt be surprised if it turned out that Soros was paying for a caravan of Central American migrants making its way toward the U.S. border."
Hungary
"George Soros, the Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire financier and philanthropist."

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