Open Society Chair Alex Soros, son of billionaire philanthropist — and MAGA bogeyman — George Soros, called out the DOJ indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James as “complete [expletive]” and “simple political retribution” aimed at President Donald Trump‘s enemies.
With both cases being dismissed today by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who found that Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed, Soros celebrated the decision. Soros tempered his optimism, however, warning that it “doesn’t mean they won’t try again.”
These cases were always complete bs and simple political retribution-but doesn’t mean they won’t try again https://t.co/RcRKOkmoaZ
— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) November 24, 2025
Soros, who took over the $25 billion Open Society Foundation from his father in 2023, is no stranger to the kind of legal threats that Comey and James have — at least temporarily — dodged.
The New York Times reported in September that “a senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney’s offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail.” The elder Soros is 95 years old.
When George Soros relinquished control of the philanthropic organization to his son, the BBC reported that the “former hedge fund manager has become the focus of anti-Semitic conspiracies” — conspiracy theories that have been since amplified by rightwing agitators.
[NOTE: Soros, who made a fortune as a hedge fund titan, began his philanthropic work before he became famous as the man who “broke the Bank of England,” earning a billion dollars by correctly predicting the pound would plummet in 1992. According to the Open Society site, Soros began his philanthropic work in 1979, “funding scholarships for Black African university students in South Africa and for East European dissidents to study in the West.”]
The dismissal of the Comey and James cases was procedural, and did not concern the specific merits of the cases, though the judge — including in her decision the full text of Trump’s late night social post to Pam Bondi calling for the prosecutions — recognized an attempt by the President to coerce the DOJ to act.
Currie ruled that it illegal to appoint two interim prosecutors in succession. She dismissed the case without prejudice, however, which allows the DOJ to file the charges again, as Soros seems to expect.
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, in her popular Substack, wrote in explaining the decision: “The dismissal orders were issued by South Carolina Judge Cameron Currie, who was asked by the Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit to consider the defendant’s challenge to the appointment procedure used to install Lindsey Halligan as the U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. Judge Currie concluded that she had not been, and that the appropriate remedy was to dismiss the complaint without prejudice.”
[NOTE: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday afternoon said that the DOJ will appeal: “Lindsey Halligan was legally appointed … the Department of Justice will be appealing very soon. It is our position that Lindsey Halligan is extremely qualified for this position, but more importantly, was legally appointed to it.”]
