George Soros spent years buying district attorneys.
Now he's found another way to undermine the justice system.
And what Soros was caught funding was his dirtiest trick yet in his battle against the Justice Department.
George Soros Is Funding a Jury Nullification Network Targeting Trump DOJ Cases
Freedom Trainers describes itself as a "loose network of trainers teaching collective noncooperation." The group is funded by Community Change, a Soros-funded activist group that didn't return press calls when reporters came asking.
The group launched in late 2024. Its founders – Daniel Hunter of the radical Choose Democracy network and Keya Chatterjee, former director of the U.S. Climate Action Network – started planning before Trump's second inauguration.
Their question wasn't how to win elections. It was how to stop Trump's Justice Department from winning in court.
The answer: pack the jury box.
Freedom Trainers has already trained hundreds of thousands of activists nationwide. The Washington Free Beacon obtained recordings, slide decks, and pamphlets laying out every step.
Step one – make sure your address is current so jury summons arrive on time.
Step two – dress neutrally, give short answers, and tell attorneys you'll listen to the evidence before forming conclusions.
Step three – never, under any circumstances, mention jury nullification during voir dire – the legal process for jury selection.
"You can legally nullify once on a jury," one training slide states, "but if you say that's your plan, you'll likely be removed before the trial begins."
Freedom Trainers Jury Nullification Playbook: What the Slides Actually Say
Once an activist clears jury selection, the guidance shifts from camouflage to sabotage.
A Freedom Trainers pamphlet tells trainees they can vote not guilty for "any reason you believe is just" – even when prosecutors prove every element of the crime.
"Even if you believe the law was broken," one slide reads. "Even if the judge says you must convict."
Hunter explained the mission during a recent webinar. The Justice Department has "gone astray and awry," he told participants. Sitting on a jury gives activists "a legal remedy" to push back.
One Freedom Trainers official who identified herself only as "Marla" added her own experience. She was once removed from a jury, she told participants, after a prosecutor "had figured out I was an activist."
The group encourages activists to spread the message beyond webinars – distributing pamphlets outside federal courthouses on Monday mornings, when prospective jurors report for duty.
The results may already be visible. D.C.-area grand juries have recently rejected indictments in multiple Justice Department cases, including a protester captured on video assaulting a federal law enforcement officer with a sandwich. Grand juries refusing prosecutors is extraordinarily rare.
Jury Tampering and Obstruction of Justice: The Federal Charges Freedom Trainers Is Risking
Jury nullification itself sits in a legal gray zone. What Freedom Trainers teaches goes several steps further.
Lying during voir dire to conceal activist intent exposes participants to federal perjury charges – up to five years in prison.
Coordinating efforts to block prosecutions through deception falls within the federal obstruction of justice statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1503. Using false statements to influence jury deliberations carries separate felony exposure under 18 U.S.C. § 1512.
The Justice Department issued a direct warning after the Free Beacon broke the story.
"While we respect jurors' role in the judicial process, the Department takes jury nullification and interference with official proceedings extremely seriously," a DOJ spokeswoman said. "Any group attempting to improperly influence juries who should serve as impartial arbiters of evidence should be held accountable."
Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, put it bluntly.
"Dark-money networks are intent on attacking the judicial system at every level," Severino said. "These latest attempts challenge the constitutional right to an impartial jury and, even worse, encourage citizens to bypass laws passed by our elected representatives."
The Sixth Amendment guarantees every American the right to a jury that decides the case on evidence. When activists train specifically to defeat that guarantee through deception, this stops being civic participation.
Soros already bought the prosecutors. He already funded the activist judges. Now his money is training operatives to lie their way into the jury box and deliver the verdict his prosecutors couldn't.
The legal system was built on the principle of facts mattering. These left-wing activists just declared war on it.
Sources:
- Thomas Catenacci, "Left-Wing Activist Group Teaches Liberals How To Get Through Jury Selection and Vote 'Not Guilty' on Trump DOJ Prosecutions, Recordings Show," Washington Free Beacon, March 9, 2026.
- Ben Smith, "Left-Wing Activists Caught Plotting to Rig Juries Against Trump DOJ Prosecutions," RedState, March 10, 2026.
- "Influencing or Injuring Officer or Juror Generally," 18 U.S.C. § 1503, Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.
- "Jury Nullification in the United States," Wikipedia, January 29, 2026.
- "Stealth Juror," Wikipedia, March 8, 2025.
