GOP lawmaker 'agrees to disagree' as Fox News host confronts her latest conspiracy theory
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) insisted on Fox News Friday, during a segment opposing the latest round of student loan forgiveness from the Biden administration, that the campus protesters are backed by a Hungarian-born Jewish billionaire philanthropist — and completely deflected when host Neil Cavuto asked her for any evidence of this.
"You've got groups that are funded by George Soros that are Palestinian rights groups that are involved, funded by George Soros, and they need to be off our college campuses if they're committing violence, full stop," said Mace.
"All right, there's no proof that these are funded by George Soros, by the way, and their folks have denied that," said Cavuto. "But we'll see exactly where all this money is coming from."
"We'll agree to disagree, I guess," said Mace, who is one of the small handful of lawmakers who voted to oust former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the House speakership, and who has recently come under fire for allegedly ordering her staffers to give her as much TV exposure as possible to promote a "celebrity status" for herself.
Soros is a frequent target of conspiracy theories from Republicans, due to his heavy investment of his wealth into progressive causes and pro-democracy movements around the world. Many of the claims against him hinge on antisemitic conspiracy theories of him as a puppet master of media and protests, with some people even alleging he collaborated with Nazi Germany, despite him being a Holocaust survivor.
Former President Donald Trump, for his part, has accused the prosecutor behind his criminal case in Manhattan of being "hand picked and funded by George Soros," which is not true. Ironically, Trump himself recently held a campaign fundraiser co-hosted by a man who ran Soros Fund Management for years.