President Joe Biden’s White House had a frequent high-profile visitor in 2023: Alex Soros, the 38-year-old son of Democratic megadonor and billionaire George Soros.
The younger Soros took at least eight trips to the White House between February and September of last year to hobnob with federal officials, all while Alex Soros and his 93-year-old father held meetings with Democratic lawmakers and gifted them with millions of dollars in campaign donations, according to White House visitor logs reviewed by the Washington Examiner. Meanwhile, George Soros recently passed the torch of his multibillion-dollar dark money philanthropy empire to his “more political” millennial son, a decision sure to have major ramifications on future elections and the left-wing donor sphere.
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“Not many people just get to visit the White House eight times in a year to talk policy,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch. “It makes him a White House insider. There’s a public interest in knowing what Alex was talking about at the Biden White House.”
The visits underscore how the Soros family has gained significant influence among the highest levels of government, as advocacy organizations funded by the Soros-backed Open Society Foundations prop up Biden’s agenda across the United States. George and Alex Soros cut large checks in 2023 to Biden and various liberal politicians, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), campaign finance disclosures show. Tax forms filed in November show Open Society Policy Center, a lobbying shop in the Soros network, steered more than $15 million in 2022 to Future Forward USA Action, a nonprofit group staffed by ex-Biden White House officials that is supporting the president’s reelection bid in 2024, the Washington Examiner reported.
Alex Soros, who asserted in April 2023 that he is “Ridin with Biden” in the 2024 presidential election, often posts pictures on social media with top Democrats, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. OSF’s newly crowned chairman is listed roughly two dozen times in White House visitor logs dating back to October 2021, while several of his colleagues, including Open Society-U.S. Executive Director Laleh Ispahani and Open Society Institute adviser Yasin Yaqubie, have also frequented the White House often, records show.
Ispahani last summer succeeded ex-Open Society director Tom Perriello, a former diplomat in the Obama administration who has also scored visits since 2021 to the Biden White House, the Washington Examiner reported. Perriello sits on the board of Governing for Impact, a Soros-backed activist group that touted in internal memos its efforts to roll back Trump-era policies related to climate, education, labor, housing, and healthcare, Fox News reported.
On Sept. 13, Alex Soros, Yaqubie, and Ispahani visited with Sofia Carratala, a White House policy adviser who has worked at the Center for American Progress, an influential liberal think tank, according to White House records released on Dec. 30 and Carratala’s LinkedIn account. It’s unclear who else the Open Society personnel may have made contact with, given visitor logs provide limited information. Still, wealthy guests who frequent the White House are often afforded the opportunity to meet with numerous officials on an undisclosed basis, a former senior official in the Trump White House’s National Security Council told the Washington Examiner.
Moreover, Alex Soros is listed in White House visitor logs in connection to a May 31 visit at the private residence of Vice President Harris, who, that day, also hosted model Savannah Huitema, businessman Avram Glazer, and other deep-pocketed Democrats. Guests arrived at 4 p.m. and departed the Harris household at midnight, according to visitor logs.
“As voters begin to tune in to the 2024 election, they deserve to know the extent to which the Soros dark money machine is exerting massive influence over the most prominent liberal leaders and elected officials in Congress and the Biden administration,” Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland of the conservative watchdog Americans for Public Trust told the Washington Examiner.
Government records also list Alex Soros as visiting last year with former White House adviser Nina Srivastava, former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, and Jon Finer, the deputy national security adviser, among others. Congressional Outreach Director Mariana Adame and Jordan Finkelstein, special assistant to the president, are also listed in White House records as visiting in the past with Alex Soros.
News of Alex Soros’s 2023 access to the White House comes after he was listed 13 times in 2022 visitor logs, including for a state dinner that year in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron and a White House celebration on the confirmation of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
In early December 2023, Alex Soros announced OSF would commit $50 million to boost nonprofit groups working on issues related to climate change, abortion, voting rights, and other left-leaning initiatives. OSF, which dishes out more than $1 billion annually across the world to aligned organizations, is reportedly in the process of cutting at least 40% of its staff.
OSF has come under fire from Republicans on the heels of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led terrorist attack against Israel for granting cash to pro-Palestinian activist hubs behind recent protests calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Spokesman Jonathan Kaplan for the dark money network told the Washington Examiner in December 2023 that OSF does “not support Hamas.”
What a treat to be with President Clinton in Albania. One of the most pro-American countries in the world & a stalwart ally thanks in part to its prime minister @ediramaal, who is coincidently born on July 4th. Great to spend today with an 🇺🇸 hero and one of the US’s best friends pic.twitter.com/JuNqBvFfuI
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) July 5, 2023
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OSF notably gave more than $2 million between 2016 and 2020 to al Haq, an Israeli-designated terrorist group linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist faction, the Washington Examiner reported. The PFLP joined Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks, which killed more than 1,200 people in the Jewish state.
The White House did not return a request for comment, nor did OSF.
