George Soros spent billions bankrolling the mobs that burned American cities in 2020.
He watched his networks coordinate the "protests" that turned Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle into war zones.
But Soros got the worst news of his life when Scott Bessent made this promise.
Bessent announces Treasury investigation into NGO protest funding networks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with journalist Christopher Rufo and delivered the message that has George Soros' Open Society Foundations in full panic mode.
Rufo asked Bessent about tax-exempt nonprofits organizing criminal protests and obstructing federal agents.
Bessent's three-word answer sent shockwaves through the dark-money world: "Yes, yes, and yes."
"These groups that are engaging in this — we have the authority, and we are examining them," Bessent said.
"There are safe houses. When you see the 300 people with the same laser that they're using to blind DHS agents in courthouses in Portland, someone bought those lasers," Bessent explained.
"And again, what we do is follow the money — just like we followed it with the mafia."
That last line wasn't throwaway rhetoric — Bessent was signaling RICO prosecutions are coming.
The same statutes that took down organized crime families in the 1980s can be applied to organizations that coordinate violence and obstruction of federal officers across state lines.
Bessent announced Treasury will implement a whistleblower program specifically targeting these networks.
"My sense is that the rats will turn on each other," Bessent predicted.
He pointed to a Somali fraudster who was given $200,000 to bribe jurors but skimmed $80,000 for herself before offering the juror $120,000.
"It's like the scorpion — it's in their nature," Bessent observed.
Open Society Foundations linked to $80 million in terrorism funding
Capital Research Center revealed that Soros' Open Society Foundations empire funneled over $80 million into groups linked to terrorism or extremist violence.
The Government Accountability Institute tracked over $100 million flowing from "Riot Inc investors" into radical organizations.
Seamus Bruner, the institute's Director of Research, briefed President Trump at the Antifa Roundtable last fall on exactly how these networks operate.
When ICE arrested illegal aliens in Minneapolis last week, "protesters" materialized within hours hunting down federal agents in their neighborhoods.
Someone paid for the transportation, printed the signs, and coordinated the social media messaging.
Bruner praised Bessent's announcement as the "direct payoff" from exposing these networks.
"From Soros's slush funds to the Arabella and Tides radical funding networks, the Trump administration is finally following the billions fueling the chaos," Bruner said.
This crackdown has been decades overdue.
Soros pioneered the model of using tax-exempt foundations to fund political operations that would be illegal if conducted directly.
The 2020 riots weren't spontaneous outrage over George Floyd's death — they were coordinated operations that Soros-funded networks had been preparing for years.
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors admitted their organizations had been "training for this moment" long before Floyd died.
Treasury applying RICO statutes to these networks is the exact right approach because that's what they are — organized criminal enterprises operating under nonprofit cover.
In the 1980s, prosecutors used RICO to prove that seemingly separate criminal acts were actually part of coordinated enterprises.
The same logic applies here: when the same laser pointers show up in Portland, Seattle, and Minneapolis, when safe houses operate in multiple cities, when messaging coordinates across social media within hours — that's organized crime, not grassroots activism.
Bessent's whistleblower program will accelerate the collapse of these networks.
Once Treasury starts freezing assets and threatening RICO charges, the lower-level operatives will stampede to cut deals.
Nobody wants to go to prison protecting George Soros' tax-exempt slush fund.
Democrats are panicking because Treasury's about to prove what conservatives have known for years — none of this was organic.
Bank records and wire transfers will show exactly how dark-money networks manufactured the outrage Democrats claimed represented authentic American anger.
Trump promised to drain the swamp, and Bessent just opened the financial floodgates exposing who's been filling it back up.
Sources:
- Christopher Rufo, "Treasury Secretary Interview on NGO Funding," January 2026.
- Seamus Bruner, "Antifa Roundtable Briefing," Government Accountability Institute, October 2025.
- Capital Research Center, "Open Society Foundations Terrorism Links Report," 2025.
- ZeroHedge, "Bessent Signals Crackdown on Dark-Money NGO Protests," January 11, 2026.
