Is Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post’s chief fact-checker, antisemitic? By his own standards, yes. He’s also a “fact-checker” who routinely needs fact-checking.
On Saturday, the Post’s fact-checker-in-chief smeared Republican claims tying the Manhattan district attorney behind former President Donald Trump’s prosecution to billionaire financier George Soros. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A. who secured Trump’s indictment Thursday, ran for the high-profile prosecutor job two years ago with a seven-figure pledge from the Soros-backed super PAC Color for Change (the group later pulled half of that contribution after an unnamed woman made allegations against Bragg). Kessler claimed it’s antisemitic for Republicans to point that out.
“The incendiary claim that George Soros ‘funded’ Alvin Bragg,” Kessler headlined his latest “fact-check.”
Kessler opened with two statements from former President Trump.
“Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who was hand-picked and funded by George Soros, is a disgrace,” Trump said in a statement on the indictment.
“I knew the price I’d have to pay for running a campaign that promised to take on the Deep State, the Open Borders Lobby, and the Soros Money Machine,” Trump wrote in a fundraising tweet.
Kessler also highlighted other Republicans “calling Bragg ‘Soros-backed’ or ‘Soros-funded’ or even ‘Soros DA.’”
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, referred to ‘Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney’ in his statement saying he would refuse an extradition request,” Kessler reported. “Fox News, which has long focused on Soros’s support for left-wing causes, has repeatedly mentioned Soros’s name in its coverage.”
Such an observation, Kessler wrote, “plays
